All IPE articles in July 2013 (Magazine)
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Very real problems
Complexity in regulation, heightened demand for efficient liability management, market volatility and the sheer breadth of investment opportunities have created demand for a different type of relationship between asset managers and pension funds, writes Liam Kennedy. How are they meeting this demand? And, with a new generation of ‘modular’ or ...
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Features
Rating hybrids
Issuance of hybrid capital in Europe surged at the start of the year and is likely to remain elevated in the near term. Taron Wade discusses how such instruments are rated and why new issuers are getting involved
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FeaturesA high-yield lesson from history
Richard Ryan warns investors not to respond to apparently tight spreads in investment-grade bonds by simply stretching for the extra 260 basis points available from high yield
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Delegation targets lower risk
Andrew Waring, chief executive of the UK Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about the scheme’s delegated CIO approach
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Features
German investors defy tough year
Frank Schnattinger outlines the findings of IPE’s seventh annual survey of German institutional investors
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Features
Insurers deal with low yields
Writing from an equity research perspective, John Hocking outlines an approach to re-risking that could benefit insurers both with Solvency II and in the eyes of rating agencies
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Remedy, not a cure
Alex Koriath and Calum Brunton Smith outline trends in the £50bn UK fiduciary management market
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Still to gather steam
Joseph Mariathasan finds investors ready to buy ABS, but the markets frozen by regulators still fearful of their role in the financial crisis
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Spiralling into control
Mariska van der Westen surveys the Dutch fiduciary management landscape. Pension funds are requiring providers to tailor their services and regaining control of the investment chain, as yesterday’s fashions fall out of favour and old models gain popularity once more
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: A turning point for European commercial mortgage-backed securities
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) have not experienced the same dramatic rally and tightening of spreads as that seen in the market for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). One might expect that their relative cheapness would therefore make the case for investment.
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Signs of life return to CLOs
Jennifer Bollen finds a re-birth in Europe’s CLO market, offering better pricing and lower risk – but facing significant obstacles to achieving maturity
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Interviews
Beyond US sub-prime
If Philip Weingord, co-founder and CEO of Seer Capital Management, isn’t ‘Mr Structured Credit’, then co-founder and CIO Richard d’Albert would be just as good a candidate.
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Features
APG looks to swap futures to reduce costs
APG, the €336bn pensions provider and asset manager, is studying the possibility of using swap futures – a derivative instrument under development in the US – as a means of cutting the cost of initial margins in central clearing.
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Peripheral euro-zone ABS: a liquidity-driven rally
European asset-backed securities (ABS) markets may not be as attractively priced as they were immediately after the financial crisis, but they can still add useful diversification of credit risk and they may still even offer some value.
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Features
The public sin
Last spring, Christian Aid argued that the entry of pension funds into the soft-commodities derivatives market had contributed to recent hikes in food prices.
