Dominic Gane
Surveys & Research Editor
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- dominic.gane@ipe.com
- Interviews
Focus Group: March 2018
We asked a group of 24 pension funds with total assets of €164bn their views on the current risks and opportunities
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Focus Group: Risks get real
We asked a group of 30 pension funds with total assets of €293bn what risks the markets will face during 2018
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Focus Group: Extending credit
We asked a group of pension funds with total assets of €28.2bn about their use of credit
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Focus Group: Spotlight on research costs
Pension funds have largely been absent from the debate about MiFID II and research costs. We asked a group of pension funds with total assets of over €330bn for their views
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Focus Group: EMD inspires confidence
We asked a group of European pension funds with total assets of €180bn about their emerging market debt strategies
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Focus Group: Diversity more than a ‘trend’
We asked a group of European pension funds with total assets of €110bn about governance
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Focus Group: Risk-factor strategies in favour
Over three-quarters of the respondents to this month’s Focus Group are allocated to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts, with four of these considering further allocations
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Focus Group: Do consultants add value?
Three-quarters of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say investment consultants have added value to their investment portfolio
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Focus Group: Geopolitical risk concerns
Twenty-five (86%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say geopolitical risk has increased over the past 12 months
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Focus Group: A changing climate
The average listed equities allocation in the portfolios of funds polled for this month’s Focus Group is 31%, with the level of respondents’ allocation ranging from 10% to 59%
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Focus Group: Let’s squeeze fees
Thirteen of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group are in favour of asset managers quoting an ‘all-in’ fee. This involves all fees and charges including transaction costs
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Focus Group: The foresight saga
Almost a third of investors, seven out of 23 polled for this month’s Focus Group, consider a hard landing in China to be the biggest economic or political risk facing the global markets in 2017.
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Focus Group: Warm on EM investment
Just three of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group have increased their allocation to emerging and frontier markets in the past three years
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Focus Group: Too much debt around
Just over half of the respondents to this month’s focus group are restructuring, or planning to restructure, their fixed-income portfolio. Of these, 10 are moving towards a more active management.
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Focus Group: The fall-out from Brexit
Thirteen (62%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group expect the European economy will be worse off once Britain leaves the European Union
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Focus Group: Risk-factor investing concepts
Just over half of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group currently allocate assets to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts
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Focus Group: Different approaches to fees
Less than half of those polled for this month’s Focus Group (13 respondents, compared with 22 in the June 2014 survey) are in favour of asset management performance fees.
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Focus Group: A changing climate
Climate change risk has been formally discussed by 15 funds polled for this month’s Focus Group
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Focus Group: Time to get active?
Almost half of the investors polled in this month’s Focus Group, 12 out of a total of 25, state that active equity management within their investment strategy has increased over the past decade
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Focus Group: Future threats (and delights)
For one-quarter of respondents to this month’s Focus Group, the biggest credible threat to the global economy and financial markets in 2016 is the bursting of quantitative easing-fuelled asset price bubbles. “Inflationary effects can quite suddenly bring markets down, if confidence is lost,” says the CEO of a Dutch fund.
