All IPE articles in December 2013 (Magazine)
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: Nothing to lose but your supply chains
This summer I was lucky enough to spend my holidays travelling around Turkey.
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: De-globalisation
Long-established patterns of global trade have started to change. Martin Steward looks into the reasons why, and the longer-term investment implications
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: Smooth sailing or stormy seas?
Pension funds have long had an interest in global shipping as a way to benefit from global trade. As shipping rebounds, Christopher O’Dea reviews the long-range outlook
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: As strong as the weakest link
Shorter supply chains may make it easier to monitor and manage risk, but Nina Röhrbein warns that they do not make the risk disappear
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: From ukuleles to kidneys
Thirty years after the invention of 3D printing, the technology has brought mass customisation to consumers and huge growth opportunities to industrials, writes Jennifer Bollen
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: The industrial renaissance
Labour, energy and technology revolutions are re-shaping globalisation. And while the initial gains appear to be in the US, Henk Grootveld sees potential across the developed world
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: The coming US dollar drought
If the US imports less energy and exports more goods, its current account deficit could continue to shrink. Charlotte Moore asks what this means for economies reliant on US dollar liquidity
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Country Report
Switzerland: 2020 is getting closer
There have been quite a few recent changes to the second pillar. But a new reform initiative aims at a more comprehensive approach and is getting the industry’s support, Barbara Ottawa finds
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Small is beautiful, again
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward note that smaller hedge funds are enjoying significant new inflows for the first time since the financial crisis. Where is the money coming from?
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Features
Risk management under the AIFMD
Kai Braun and Désirée Springmann describe the major changes ahead for private equity and real estate fund managers
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Country Report
Switzerland: Is factor-based allocation new?
Factor-based allocation may be theoretically interesting for Swiss pension funds but it is hard to implement in a practical way, according to Lukas Riesen and Diego Liechti
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Features
The art of engagement
One trend to emerge from the financial crisis has been an improvement in engagement, as Nina Röhrbein finds
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: “We ask investors what they like”
After almost 10 years of talking to hedge fund managers, this is a first. Erich Schlaikjer, co-founder of the Cambridge, UK-based systematic managed futures specialist Cantab Capital, is showing me what his firm’s trading and research systems can do.
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Opinion Pieces
Matthew Kiernan, Inflection Point Capital Man. & Paul Clements-Hunt, The Blended Capital Group:“Investors who fail to develop systematically aware investment processes risk commercial extinction”
There is no shortage of high-wattage brainpower directed to the promotion of longer-term finance and investing.
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Opinion Pieces
Too big to fail?
Are US asset management firms ‘too big to fail’? In other words, do they represent systemic risks similar to those posed by the largest banks, so much that they must be subject to ‘enhanced’ supervision?
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Not such black boxes
David Turner looks at how transparency has improved in the hedge fund world, and what pension funds are doing to adapt to all the new information
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Features
Corporate bonds go electronic
Amid the ongoing debate about the best market structure for cash credit, Rupert Warmington draws attention to the rapid expansion of electronic trading
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Bottom-up on the up
Changes in market behaviour have created an alpha-rich environment that is great for stockpickers and dangerous for market-timers, write Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward
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Features
More buckets
Last month, for the first time, we experimented with a new approach to our monthly international strategy meeting. Video conferencing.
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Features
Castilian discipline
Nina Röhrbein asked Jaime Martinez-Gómez about the governance, risk and portfolio strategies of Fonditel, the manager of Telefonica’s Spanish pension fund
