All Features articles – Page 90
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The US Treasury’s New Year gift
The US Treasury brings to market its first new product in nearly 20 years. Stephanie Schwartz reports
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On the horizon
In the first of a two-part round-up, Stephen Bouvier asks leading pensions accounting experts to identify the IAS 19 issues to watch in the year ahead
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Illiquid but not non-transparent
Cyril Demaria argues that private equity illiquidity need not prevent the creation of a model for vintage return prediction that can reduce the prudential capital costs of the asset class
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When China sneezes… 2014
The spectre of the volatility that struck emerging markets in 2013 hangs over many of the investment pages of this month’s IPE. And no wonder – it feels like last year provided confirmation, at last, that these markets are entering a new paradigm.
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Talking about risk
The UK Financial Reporting Council wants business to get serious in its conversation with investors about business risk. Vijay Krishnaswamy and Jon Hatchett tell Stephen Bouvier what these changes mean
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Real ambition
Nina Röhrbein asked Benny Buchardt Andersen, CIO at PenSam, about his fund’s aim to target future purchasing power and how it will achieve this
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FeaturesEmerging consumer policies
While the bottom of the pyramid is served by microfinance, providing finance products for the growing educated middle class is increasingly important for some investment managers, finds Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesEmerging opportunities
Over three-quarters (16 respondents) of the 20 investors polled for this month’s Focus Group believe the recent underperformance of emerging-market assets has made them more attractive to their fund. According to a UK fund: “Emerging-market performance is still likely to compare favourably with developed-market performance.”
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The journey to single EU financial legislation
The reform efforts of EU financial authorities are mostly focused on life insurance. But there are no grounds for the occupational pensions sector to rejoice – its turn will come later if regulatory plans come to pass.
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FeaturesInsecurities market?
Charlotte Adlung asks whether events such as the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre reveal risks to Africa’s compelling economic, consumer and investment stories
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FeaturesRetaining interest
Torsten von Bartenwerffer points out that rising rates do not necessarily mean losses in fixed income, and argues for smarter long-only strategies rather than market-timing or long/short approaches
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Large schemes warming to local investment
Dutch pension funds’ assets of €1trn were the Holy Grail for politicians and companies to plug banks’ funding gap of €478bn last year. By taking over a substantial amount of mortgage loans, pension funds could free up banks’ lending capacity and kick-start the ailing housing market and local economy.
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FeaturesWhat do you want to know?
Diary of an Investor: At Wasserdicht Pension Funds, the investment team generally gets on with the job of running the fund’s money in the way the trustees tell us to.
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Trust me, I manage money
No-one doubts that trust, ethics and integrity are central to pension and investment management.
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FeaturesMeeting in the middle
The pressure is growing for pension investors to begin divesting from fossil fuel companies, Nina Röhrbein finds
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Taking it one step at a time
The success or failure of Prof John Kay’s proposed investor forum hinges, unsurprisingly, on its ability to attract a critical mass of asset managers and owners to the table.
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On the quiet
Activist investors are sometimes a colourful breed. One of them was the now infamous Florian Homm, who fell from grace in September 2007 in spectacular style.
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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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The art of engagement
One trend to emerge from the financial crisis has been an improvement in engagement, as Nina Röhrbein finds
