Interviews
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InterviewsOn the record: Outlook 2021
Heading towards the end of one of the most challenging years ever for the global economy, IPE asked three institutional investors about their outlook for 2021
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How we run our money: Germany's BVK
André Heimrich (pictured), CIO of the Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), and his team speak to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s global diversification strategy
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Strategically Speaking: BlueBay Asset Management
Nowadays, it seems fair to ask asset managers whether they believe they can fulfil their clients’ needs while at the same time doing their bit to fight COVID-19.
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Interview: Sorca Kelly-Scholte on the future of RPI
Sorca Kelly-Scholte, JP Morgan Asset Management’s (JPMAM) EMEA head of pension solutions and advisory, discussed with IPE.com editor Venilia Amorim how she thinks pension funds can plan for the road ahead, in light of the uncertainty over the future of RPI and whether or not it gets fully phased out. ...
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Strategically Speaking: State Street Global Advisors
In the quaint English game of cricket, there exists a concept that provides a good metaphor for the predicament facing the world in 2020.
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How we Run our Money: Lothian Pension Fund
Bruce Miller (pictured), CIO at the Lothian Pension Fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s inclination towards equities and internal management
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On the Record: Manager selection
IPE asked three institutional investors how manager selection has changed as a result of the restrictions imposed in response to COVID-19
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Strategically Speaking: Ambienta
In the early 1990s, when Nino Tronchetti Provera started his career at McKinsey, the management consultancy, sustainability in business seemed little more than a nice idea. But having graduated from Luiss University in Rome with a thesis on the subject, Tronchetti Provera believed in the disruptive potential of making businesses environmentally sustainable.
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On the Record: Investing in the time of COVID-19
We asked three institutions how they are working to tackle the pandemic, from an investment and organisational perspective
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How We Run Our Money: KLP
Aage Schaanning (pictured), chief financial officer at Norway’s Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s risk framework
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Strategically Speaking: Insight Investment
Insight Investment’s asset management roots are in the structural shift over the past two decades to closed-book defined benefit (DB) pensions in the UK and elsewhere.
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On the record: Crisis talks
IPE asked three pension funds how they implemented their crisis communication strategies during the COVID-19 emergency
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Interview: Dambisa Moyo on the geopolitics of global debt
When asked a simple question about global debt, economist and author Dambisa Moyo introduces a far more complex discussion about geopolitics.
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How we run our money: comPlan
Roman Denkinger (pictured), head of asset management at comPlan, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about managing the fund’s portfolio during the COVID-19 crisis
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Strategically speaking: Saker Nusseibeh, Federated Hermes
At first sight, the two sides of Federated Hermes seem culturally distinct. Federated is a staid, family-controlled, and Pittsburgh-based money manager with a history of providing services to bank trust departments. Hardly a hotbed of ESG or shareholder engagement, you might think.
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How we run our money: ENPAB
Danilo Pone, CIO of ENPAB, the first-pillar scheme for Italian biologists, talks about the fund’s new proprietary asset allocation model
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On the record: Safety in asset-backed credits
Simon Davy, head of private markets at the UK’s Local Pensions Partnership, discusses the outlook for alternative credit
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Features
Strategically Speaking: Asoka Woehrmann, DWS
DWS has just unveiled a new, simplified global structure. CEO Asoka Woehrmann explains how the reorganisation will allow the firm to focus on its key business lines
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How we run our money: PPF - Defending UK pensions
Barry Kenneth, CIO of the UK’s Pension Protection Fund (PPF), tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about managing the fund’s portfolio during the COVID-19 outbreak
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Strategically speaking: Dimensional Fund Advisors
“Implementing the great ideas in finance for clients” is the stated mantra of Dimensional Fund Advisors’ founder and executive chairman David Booth. But at times of market stress and volatility, such as this year and in March in particular, even the most sophisticated and long-term-focused investors can question the validity of great ideas.
