All IPE articles in December 2009 (Magazine) – Page 2

  • Special Report

    Dynamic alpha risk budgeting

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    Dynamic management of core/satellite allocations might seem an ideal strategy for maximising return while minimising costs. But this approach can be difficult to execute, argues Daniel Wallick

  • Pricing equity risk appetite
    Special Report

    Pricing equity risk appetite

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    Historic excess returns from equities tell us little about the risk premium embedded in valuations at any given time. Toby Nangle and Hartwig Kos explain how a forward earnings-based model allows them to take account of extreme economic scenarios that could disrupt those earnings

  • Opinion Pieces

    Will Price, International Organisation of Pension Supervisors

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    We live in a world of integrated markets where co-operation and cohesion of our diverse regulatory approaches is key to understanding and mitigating the impact of the global financial turmoil.

  • Features

    Ong’s law of finance

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    When leading financial practitioners and academics convened in Qatar earlier in the autumn at the launch of QFinance to discuss the future of financial services regulation, it seemed that the economic tsunami of 2008 was finally receding and normality was returning. Banks have spent most of the year rebuilding their ...

  • Opinion Pieces

    AIFM Directive delayed

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    Delayed scheduling in Brussels of the Alternative Investment Fund Directive — by about six months — might be bringing smiles to the faces of the anti-reform lobby. They would not mind at all that the Directive’s final clearance, through a European Parliament plenary session, is now estimated for June or ...

  • Special Report

    Dark forces

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    Uncertainties govern any future projection of the equity risk premium, argue Wim Barentsen and Svetlana Rodionova, making scenario analysis essential to APG’s asset-liability matching process

  • Features

    Spreading the risk

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    Diversified growth lives up to its name, covering a diverse range of institutional strategies with diverse potential uses for pension funds, finds Christine Senior. But is the strategy discredited?

  • Features

    Global macro lessons

    December 2009 (Magazine)

    They may seem worlds apart, but global macro managers might have some useful things to teach pension funds, writes Martin Steward