All IPE articles in July/August 2019 (magazine)
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Features
IAS 19: How did they do it?
Two academics have analysed key amendments to IAS 19 and how they came about
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator: July 2019
Markets are still driven by political risk and growth prospects. It looks like the two risks are working in the same direction this month.
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator: August 2019
It looks like political risk is taking a back seat to growth this month, continuing last month’s trend.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Nervousness abounds
The weak US non-farm payroll (NFP) data for May, far below forecasts, sent rates falling and stocks rising, on the supposition that it raised the likelihood of interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. On the other hand, while risk markets cheered the prospect of easier money, the hardline approach taken by the US towards China, and China’s uncompromising responses are raising investor nervousness.
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Special ReportInvestment services: Accessing China's bond market
Access to China’s fixed-income market is cheaper and easier than ever
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Book ReviewBook review: Achieving Investment Excellence
Fix asset allocation and the numbers will follow. This rule of thumb originated from an influential study published in 1986, which showed that 93.6% of variations in a portfolio’s returns are due to asset allocation policy.
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FeaturesResearch: Passive investors, active owners
The rise of index investing raises important question about ownership rights and governance
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Adam Matthews and John Howchin
“The Brumadinho dam tragedy causes us to question if we have created the conditions for a set of disasters”
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FeaturesAdequacy: the all-important question
How do you measure success when it comes to pension reform? In the UK, it is clear that the government measures the success of auto-enrolment by some numbers, but not others.
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Country ReportIORP II: Race to adopt new rules
Putting the new IORP II rules in place will be a challenge for Italian pension funds in areas like risk management
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FeaturesDutch pensions agreement dodges the real issues
Social partners have agreed compromises relating to the state pension age and early retirement Many crucial aspects are yet to be confirmed and could still derail efforts to reform the system
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: The bubbles to come
Market bubbles would not happen in a perfect world. But humans are not perfect and our economies are inherently unstable.
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Country Report
First pillar: Ahead of the game
Italy’s privatised first-pillar pension funds are modernising their strategies
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Country ReportA real alternative to help Italy's economy
A review of think tank Itinerari Previdenziali’s and Borsa Italiana’s recent project on Italian pension funds’ real-economy investments
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Features
Editor's Notes: A radical ambition
Last month’s three doorstop reports from the EU’s 35-strong technical expert group (TEG) on sustainable finance have the potential to radically repurpose capital markets.
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Opinion PiecesAnimal welfare: Probing the global meat complex
Everyone knows about ‘big oil’ and how much influence the global agribusiness sector has. But there is less awareness about the negative impacts of meat producers – the ‘global meat complex’.
