All IPE articles in July 2013 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
If it looks like a duck
Hybrid corporate bonds are taking off as investors scramble for yield. But Martin Steward wonders if the hybdridity balance is shifting against investors
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Opinion Pieces
OTPP looks east
The CAD129.5bn (€96.4bn) Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) believes it is one of the best managed pension funds in the world. To remain that way, it is looking east for growth and is adjusting to the new demographic trends, but not abandoning its defined benefit (DB) model.
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Opinion Pieces
Happy in the hot seat
Jeremy Woolfe asks Gabriel Bernardino, the chairman of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, about the challenges he faces stuck in the crossfire of the conflicting interests of the European pensions industry
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Features
My way, not the highway
Jeroen Dijsselbloem was never going to have an easy time as the Dutch minister of finance, thanks to the country’s slowing economic growth and the need for cuts to bring deficit spending under the European Union’s 3% threshold.
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Features
Is history quietly repeating itself?
With the system already as heavily leveraged as it was in 2007, markets are hanging on every word from Ben Bernanke. Dan James thinks this only adds to the feeling of déjà vu
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Country Report
Italy: Three sparks needed to ignite the Italian pensions market
State Street Global Advisor (SSGA) is one of the leading Italian institutional asset managers, managing €10bn of domestic institutional investors’ funds as of June 2013. It holds 13 mandates from closed pension schemes such as Cometa and Fonchim and 15 mandates from casse di previdenza, a sector where the Milan-based asset manager is the undisputed leader, giving the firm a broad view of the Italian institutional investment market. Marco Fusco, SSGA’s head of southern Europe outlined the three sparks he believes are needed to ignite the Italian market.
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Not a smooth ride
Ian Morse asks Patrick Groenendijk, CIO of Vervoer about his views on fiduciary management in the light of his fund’s experiences with Goldman Sachs Asset Management
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Country Report
Italy: Still waiting
Nina Roehrbein notes potential interest in emerging markets and declining exposure to domestic government debt among Italy’s occupational pension funds
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Special Report
With pensions in its sights
Mark Nicholls asesses the UK’s Green Investment Bank plans to target the institutional investment community, and pension funds in particular
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Features
Keep it simple, stupid
Nina Röhrbein speaks to Peter Hansson, CEO of Swedish pension fund, Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa, about how how he keeps it simple
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Features
Smarter outsourcing
The term ‘outsourcing’ first came to light in 1979, and gained popularity in business by the 1990s as companies sought supply-chain efficiency and to concentrate on their core activity. The notion also gained currency in pension fund management.
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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.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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