All IPE articles in December 2011 (Magazine) – Page 3

  • Features

    Cash in the attic

    December 2011 (Magazine)

    Squeezing a return out of cash can expose funds to unexpected risk. But Charlotte Moore suggests that using it for strategic optionality removes the need to take risk in the search for yield

  • Features

    Alight for full funding

    December 2011 (Magazine)

    Markus Hübscher, CEO of the Swiss Federal Railways pension fund, told Nina Röhrbein about his fund’s restructuring and new internal governance structure

  • Interviews

    Strategic agility

    December 2011 (Magazine)

    Nordic private equity house CapMan does not make things easy on itself. Its mission statement: “To be the best-performing European private equity firm”.

  • Special Report

    And what about Japan itself?

    December 2011 (Magazine)

    Clearly the view a fund manager takes of Japan’s short to medium term macro prospects has a strong determining influence on their view of Japanese equities. Simon Edelsten, senior fund manager of the Artemis Global Select Fund, likes the fact that neither Japan – nor the rest of Asia – has adopted the EU’s penchant for austerity, or seen their banks have to de-lever to the same extent.

  • Features

    New chairman rings in the changes at AbA

    December 2011 (Magazine)

    Attendees of this year’s autumn conference of the German pension fund association Arbeitsgemeinschaft betriebliche Altersversorgung (AbA) in Cologne found an organisation preparing for a new pension era in Germany and across Europe.