All IPE articles in January 2014 (Magazine)
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Features
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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Features
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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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Latvia: Bounceback economy adopts the euro
Latvia is the eighteenth and newest member of the EU and was the fourth CEE state, after Slovenia, Slovakia and Estonia, to join the euro-zone.
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Features
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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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Another odd one out
Romania wants to strengthen its second pillar, according to Barbara Ottawa, bucking a regional trend away from funded pensions
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Serbia: Knocking on the EU’s door and attracting ex-EU investment
Serbia is close to opening discussions on EU accession, which has long been a target for the country after the traumatic Yugoslav wars of independence during the 1990s.
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: The dragon awakes
Joseph Mariathasan examines China’s Third Plenum, which some are hailing as a watershed towards a market-led economy
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Croatia bucks the trend
In contrast with Poland, and despite the poor state of its economy, the EU’s newest member backs second-pillar pensions and is making proactive changes to the system, as Krystyna Krzyzak outlines
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging market equities – Buyers’ strike?
Cracks may be appearing in the great emerging consumer story. Martin Steward speaks to three managers that have scaled this edifice and offer different perspectives on whether it is time to jump off
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Worth the long-term risk?
The Polish government is set on its plan to dismantle the second pillar. Krystyna Krzyzak sees grave implications for Poland’s capital markets in the plan, which could also backfire on the government’s plan to reduce the debt burden
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: A temporary pensions raid
Managers of Russia’s non-state pension funds are openly critical of the government’s current reform track, according to Krystyna Krzyzak
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: A progressive step
The Caucasus nation of Armenia has taken a very international approach to setting up a funded second and third pillar, writes Barbara Ottawa
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Tempered optimism
Latvian pension funds remain cautiously optimistic about their future as the country enters the euro area on 1 January, according to Rachel Fixsen
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Special Report
Central & Eastern Europe Investment: Diversity in convergence
If there is one conclusion to draw from our survey of the investment opportunity in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), it is the importance of acknowledging the diversity of the region.
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Special Report
Central & Eastern Europe Investment: Eastward flows
Emerging Europe is looking ever more attractive to foreign investment flows, writes Daniel Ben-Ami. But should investors look east or south, to manufacturing or to retail?
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Special Report
Central & Eastern Europe Investment: Fundamentally compelling
Despite emerging market turmoil, David Zahn argues that fiscal rectitude and a shared desire to join the euro sustain the investment cases for many eastern European bond markets
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: The emerging Cinderella
Private market investors remain wary despite the apparent robustness of eastern Europe’s opportunities, writes Jennifer Bollen
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: The twin peripheries
After years of turmoil, Europe has two groups of reformed economies at its southern and eastern edges. But Charlotte Moore finds that they are not equally-positioned, and both still include countries with deep problems
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Turkey: Growth, but with deficits and political uncertainty
Analysts and asset managers following Turkish markets say the main issues affecting future Turkish risk rating are Fed ‘tapering’, the development of European economies and domestic politics. Turkey is heading towards local elections in March and presidential elections in July 2014. Both will pave the way for general elections scheduled for the summer of 2015.
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Lithuania: Euro membership versus Russia’s gravitational pull
Lithuania is tantalisingly close to qualifying for euro-zone membership in 2015. Inflation, which was responsible for the country failing in its 2007 attempt, has been tamed to within the Maastricht level.
