Investment
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Features
Cross-border investment barriers: issues for institutional investors
Protectionist trade policies are back in vogue, fuelled by the rise of China’s economy and, more recently, by the escalation of geopolitical tensions.
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Interviews
ECP Asset Management: An Australian approach to concentrated equity portfolios
The 2020s will likely be remembered as a period of high stock market concentration, similar to the decade of ‘nifty fifty’ stocks, which propelled the US market in the years before the 1973 crash.
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: Uncertainty reigns as Trump 2.0 takes office
Now that Donald Trump has been installed as US president, there should be more clarity around some of the timings of his probable new policies.
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Features
IPE Quest Expectations Indicator - January 2025
The erosion in trust in the US is promoted by its refusal to participate in a proposed trigger force in Ukraine. In response, European defence expenses are rising, in particular in Poland, the Baltics and Scandinavia.
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Features
Briefing: The challenge of investing in Europe’s energy transition
The way the European economy powers itself is undergoing a fundamental shift, driven by market forces and policymakers. But while the direction of travel is clear, the path to a different energy mix is tortuous and the shift may be much slower than required to meet Europe’s target to be net zero by 2050.
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: Trump 2.0 sends global markets out of sync
Trump’s re-election prompted a rally in US assets, but elsewhere in global markets investors did not react positively
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Features
Asset allocation: hard to pick short-term winners
IPE’s latest manager expectations survey finds high net sentiment across most main asset classes as allocators weigh the Trump trade
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Interviews
LeapFrog eyes global impact investment opportunities
Impact investing was once a niche concept. “We were seen as the weird people in the corner of the room,” recalls Andy Kuper, the South African founder and CEO of LeapFrog Investments
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Features
The effect of behavioural biases on active investment portfolios
It has been become apparent in recent years that behavioural finance has important things to say about how investors make decisions.
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: All eyes on Trump’s return
With the Republican Party now in control of both Senate and House, the leeway that President-elect Donald Trump will have to enact his pre-election policies could be considerable.
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Features
Insurance-linked securities bank a stellar year for returns
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) may be complicated, but they are gaining an institutional following especially among pension and sovereign wealth funds, multi-asset investment firms and endowments.
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Features
IPE Quest Expectations Indicator - December 2024
Bond expectations falling, equity mostly flat
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Analysis
Pan-European personal pension product requires improvement
Funded pensions can provide both a retirement income for EU citizens and capital for long-term investments by financial institutions.
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Features
A new perspective on credit for climate transition
Sustainable finance has turned out to be a much dirtier and grittier battlefield than early adopters and advocates projected it to be.
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Features
Soft landing likely again for US economy
It has been more than a year since the attacks by Hamas in Israel and tensions in the Middle East remain high, with a rising impact on financial market sentiment.
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Features
Market looks to Xi Jinping for a plan to boost China’s economy
When the Chinese government announced a package of measures designed to revitalise the domestic economy in late September, the country’s stock markets responded positively, and many breathed a sigh of relief.
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Interviews
BNY Investments: More than the sum of the parts?
The world’s top asset managers are a diverse bunch. From pure-play managers to investment bank-owned firms and those with an asset servicing heritage, the different flavours also reflect the changing nature of the sector.
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Features
IPE Quest Expectations Indicator - November 2024
Donald Trump has profited from climate change, which he believes unimportant, as this year’s hurricane season has so far seen more storms over a wider area.
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Interviews
SEI Investments seeks new partnership approach
SEI Investments, the Pennsylvania-based technology and investment firm, was a vocal advocate for independent fiduciary management in the UK pension industry.
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: All eyes are on US elections
With so many important elections taking place this year, politics were likely to have an outsized influence on financial markets.