All Features articles – Page 76
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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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Dutch pressured over stranded assets
Dutch pension funds are under increasing pressure to reconsider their investments in fossil fuels
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Asset Allocation: The big picture
Although the severe winter did have a significant impact on US economic activity in the first quarter, the strength of the headwinds from a stronger dollar and the collapse in capital spending within the energy sector have also taken their toll
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Alecta
Per Frennberg, chief investment officer at Alecta, describes his team’s emphasis on investment analysis to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Ahead of the Curve: Oil be back
Niels Jensen looks at worlwide production costs for getting oil out of the ground
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Class Action Lawsuits: Petrobras - A case for care
Pension funds exposed to troubled Petrobras that have lost money on their investment will have to weigh their options carefully before deciding which legal route to take
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Accounting Matters: Fair valuing the future
Bad accounting breeds bad policies. Or so it would seem
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Swiss troubled by negative 10-year bond yields
Institutional investors in Switzerland are far from happy their government has issued the first 10-year bond in Europe with a negative rate
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FeaturesWater: Trickle-down value
Jonathan Williams looks at disclosure of water risk and why asset owners should pay as much attention to it as people do to carbon emissions
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From our perspective: A meeting of minds?
Germany is the undisputed political and economic leader of Europe and the euro-zone but it has been notably less proactive on pensions
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Trading liquidity for yield
Investing in illiquid, private debt markets is undeniably hard work but the rewards can be significant diversification and improved risk-adjusted return
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Linde Group
Christoph Schlegel, head of pension investments at Linde, outlines his fund’s economic scenario planning and dynamic investment approach
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Focus Group: Regulatory overkill
Twenty-three of the pension funds polled for this month’s Focus Group survey find their regulators’ approach affects their investment strategy.
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Success (and failure) factors
Most of the success or failure of a pension system can be attributed to design and input factors
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NAPF Conference Report: The grand European plan
The language coming out of Brussels in the first three months of 2015 has centred heavily on the Capital Markets Union (CMU). At this year’s NAPF Investment Conference, in Edinburgh, the European Commission was nothing if not on-message.
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Cashing out
This is the last leader column I will write for IPE, ending six years as its investment editor
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Diary of an Investor: The conference calls
Unlike my friend Eddie, I am not a devotee of the conference scene but I do enjoy a good debate, writes Pieter Mullen
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Regulatory bottleneck
Perhaps the true long-lasting legacy of the 2008-09 financial crisis is a heightened focus on regulation. Although the crisis itself was not sparked by pension funds, they are all too affected by the new wave of rules generated by those events.
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Corporate bonds for the long run
The post-crisis world of bond investing is favouring the ‘new’ old-fashioned approach known as buy-and-maintain credit
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Dutch Regulation: Dutch central bank bares its teeth
It certainly set tongues wagging in the Dutch pensions industry – De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the financial regulator, declared Joanne de Graaff, a professional trustee, “unfit” for duty
