All IPE articles in February 2015 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Asset Class Reports
Investment Grade Credit: Set for new trends
Strategy Review, Investment Grade Credit: Martin Steward finds investment-grade credit portfolio managers getting excited about energy sector volatility and a big change to regulation of bank capital structures
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Country Report
Pension in Ireland: Route change
Funds are shifting assets to fixed income following Pension Authority concerns about equity risk, writes Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Interviews
Philippe Desfossés, CEO, ERAFP, France, On The Record
How do you deal with underperformance?
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Country Report
Pensions in Ireland: The recovering Celtic tiger
With a target of stimulating growth while investing along commercial lines, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund will have to find attractive and viable projects. Jonathan Williams talks to Donal Murphy about how to deploy €7bn, and across what sectors
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Emission Impossible
When Chris Hitchen, CEO of the UK’s Railpen, thinks about portfolio fossil-fuel exposure, there is no room for moral absolutes. The discussion is “quite different” now that oil trades at $45/bbl rather than $115/bbl, he insists.
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, A changing climate
After years of campaigning, a series of recent moves from influential investors suggests that anti-fossil fuel groups are getting money on their side. Mark Nicholls looks at how the risk management and divestment movements are shaping up
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, a timeline
July 2011: The Carbon Tracker Initiative launches its seminal ‘Carbon Bubble’ report which, for the first time, puts the 2°C climate change target into a capital markets context…
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Leaving smaller footprints
Bee-Lin Ang, Jonathan Williams and Martin Steward hear from pension fund investors around the world about why carbon and fossil-fuel risk matters, and how they are addressing it
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, A low-risk path to carbon reduction
The low-carbon index approach adopted by AP4, FRR and ERAFP aims to mitigate climate change (and career) risk, writes Liam Kennedy
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, How the low-tracking-error green index strategy works
As pioneered by the Swedish pension buffer fund AP4, low-tracking-error green indices work on a remarkably simple principle: weighting the stocks in each sector by carbon intensity (CO2 per unit of sales) and removing the most carbon-intense companies and exposure to stranded asset risk in intensity based on market cap.
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Yielding results
Green, or climate bonds, are gradually becoming a mainstay in the market. Jonathan Williams assesses who is active in the market, whether it remains dominated by government-backed bonds – and who is assessing the impact of capital raised in this way
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, How green are your govvies?
On the face of it, sovereigns and their debt should be very sensitive to carbon and climate-change risks. Mike Scott finds that uncertainty around data and the lack of a price for carbon is holding back the discounting of those risks
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Special Report
Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, What if we could capture carbon?
There is a big question begged by the ‘stranded assets’ thesis: What if there were no link between burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases?
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Features
Inflation Measures: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
In the UK, 2015 started with a sense of déjà vu, as statisticians re-opened the debate on the merits of differing inflation measures.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Pensions in their sights
EU big shots working on how to release capital flows from funds into SMEs under the new Capital Market Union (CMU) programme should look at an existing scheme with similar aims.
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Features
Briefing - Switzerland: Guided choices
Some Swiss pension funds are introducing a degree of individual investment choice. Barbara Ottawa assesses progress so far
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Features
Briefing - Netherlands: Towards Dutch sustainability
Nine pension specialists* outline a model for the future of the Dutch pension system
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Features
Briefing: Pension Funds and ETFs, Still in the future
Exchange traded product providers claim improving costs make them better than derivatives or traditional passive solutions for both tactical and strategic investment. Brian Bollen finds Europe’s pension funds yet to be fully convinced
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Features
Briefing: Energy Investments, Oil plunge shakes up shale
Seven months of plunging crude prices has devastated cash flow projections of the US’s nascent shale oil production industry. But David Turner finds investors looking for bargains, especially among less-exposed infrastructure providers
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Country Report
Pensions In Ireland: Needing a break
Defined benefit scheme deficits continue to have a significant presence on Irish balance sheets, according to Mick O’Byrne
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