All Editorial articles – Page 5
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Country Report
Sweden's Pensions Working Group unlikely to reach conclusions any time soon
Pirkko Juntunen asks when the Pensions Working Group will finally come to any conclusions. The answer seems to be ‘nobody knows, but not any time soon’
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your approach to private markets?
This month three pension funds share their views on investing in private markets
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Special Report
Assessing pension fund capital risk
Pension fund appetite for direct participation in infrastructure debt continues to grow. Yet, this brings increased risk to assess
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Special Report
Cyber Security in Asset Management
In an increasingly mobile, cloud-based digital world, the old model of thick walls around a centralised information keep is out of date
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Features
Dutch pressured over stranded assets
Dutch pension funds are under increasing pressure to reconsider their investments in fossil fuels
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Astellon Capital Partners
Responding to a reporter’s question about what he most feared could blow his government off-course, the British prime minister Harold Macmillan is supposed to have said: “Events, dear boy, events.”
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Special Report
Technology: Biotech
Biotech firms are reaching tipping points in science, business models and sales that should consolidate their position as the leading sub-sector in healthcare
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Special Report
Credit: Bond & Loan Convergence
Investors’ continued search for performance has changed the dynamics of the European high-yield market
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Bond market scrutiny
There has been a flurry of activity and comment from industry groups on the subject of bond market liquidity
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Special Report
Bondholder engagement: No pain, no gain
Investor protection is loosening significantly in high-yield markets
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Can investors be part of the solution to Brazil's crises?
Investors in Brazil have been largerly absent from the separate crises over water and corruption shaking the country
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Features
Mezzanine Finance: Mezzanine’s brief hour in the sun
Mezzanine lenders stepped into the breach during the darkest days of the credit crunch, and were paid handsomely for their trouble
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Country Report
Sweden's buffer funds: Healthy despite uncertainty
Sweden’s national buffer funds, despite their uncertain future, are faring quite well
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Special Report
Technology: University Venture Capital
In its narrowest form, university venture capital has raised a couple of billion dollars a year, mostly in the US and UK
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Features
CEE Pensions: Fight for survival
The policies of a number of Central and Eastern European governments towards funded first pillar pensions have left some funds wondering about their future
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Special Report
Credit: A change in dynamics
Remember covenant-lite loans? By 2009, risk-averse investors exercised huge influence over issuers and were able to obtain high levels of protection in the high-yield market
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pensions push on climate change
US pension funds are using the meetings to push forward their agenda on climate change
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Asset Class ReportsPre-listing Support for Private Companies: Joining the ‘elite’
London Stock Exchange’s Luca Peyrano talks about its Elite programme for late-stage private companies and finds that it is preparing to spread its influence across Europe
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Features
Focus Group: Cooler on credit
Six in 10 respondents to this month’s Focus Group think that credit has become more important in their fund’s portfolio over the past five years
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Features
Nordic countries: Pension risk takers
The Nordic countries are today home to some of the most innovative pension funds, which one observer believes is in part due to an “engineering mentality”
