All IPE articles in June 2009 (Magazine)
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Features
Get the message across
For many pension funds, communication with members has been a case of going through the motions and complying with minimum legal requirements. But enter a monumental financial crisis and good communication suddenly becomes of crucial important.
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Special Report
‘We ate all the nuts’
Liam Kennedy interviewed PIMCO’s Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian at their offices in Newport Beach, California
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Special Report
ESG alphabet soup
The plethora of ESG programmes and plans has resulted in a confusing alphabet soup. Nina Röhrbein sought industry views
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Country Report
A cautiously traditional approach
Popular sentiment as well as well as restrictive regulation limits the asset allocation of Turkish pension funds to all but the most basic assets, notes Reeta Paakkinen
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Special Report
Natural assets
The equity of natural-resource producers is not perfectly correlated with commodities, but that is why they represent a useful, diversified exposure to the long-term commodity story, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Special Report
Carried away
Market volatility and central bankers racing each other to zero have beaten up the carry trade. Does this make the case for a diversified exposure to currency absolute return strategies? Martin Steward reports
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Features
Bitter medicine
Central banks are preparing to flood the market with paper on the one hand while ‘printing money’ to hoover it up on the other. Martin Steward asks what it means for bond yields, pension fund solvency and asset allocation over the coming months
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Features
Bounty hunt
Many people assume that German pension fund asset allocation is a conservative game. But it is famously the exceptions that prove the rule.
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Special Report
Seed capital
Global demographics are driving agricultural returns for both financial and real assets, writes Martin Steward
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Opinion Pieces
Is the emperor wearing clothes?
Norman Chait argues that hedge funds should again perform their traditional role of providing genuine sources of non-correlated returns and downside protections
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Nimble and flexible
The Amsterdam rain is falling against the windows as we see a market rally on the computer screens. All good timing for the conference I am attending with the theme ‘What now for Pension Funds?’
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Country Report
Different views of sustainablilty
The government is claiming that recent changes increasing contributions to the state pension system are a major reform. But George Coats finds there are those calling for a more fundamental overhaul
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Asset Class ReportsDon’t fight the Fed...
The Fed and the US Treasury combination sits like a heavyweight in the boxing ring of US fixed income. The ponderous moves open up ample opportunity for some quick jabs – but get on the wrong end of one of the swings and it’s a knockout. Joseph Mariathasan reports
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Country ReportSharp shift in focus
Italian asset managers are use to dealing with conservative, short-term investors. But the main impact of the financial crisis has been a switch of asset classes, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
A way forward to the past
As the Maltese government stalls on a commitment to introduce second and third pillars, George Coats points out that the island nation had an occupational system some years ago
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InterviewsThe institutional path
SAM was founded in 1995 as Sustainable Asset Management. In the wake of the current financial crisis and the appointment of Sander van Eijkern as CEO in January, new ventures are on the horizon for the Swiss-based investment manager.
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Special Report
Keep it simple
Choosing collateral and counterparty wisely will help to mitigate substantially against the future risk of default in securities lending, finds Iain Morse
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Features
Keep it simple
Private equity funds of funds are increasingly under fire. Not only do they reduce returns, but they do not minimise risks. Cyril Demaria questions the use of these costly intermediaries
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Country Report
Location, location…
The Competence Centre for Pension Research of Tilburg University and the Dutch Circle for Pension Specialists organised a debate to determine the best location for pan-European pension funds. Peter Schonewille reports
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Country Report
Patching up a monolith
Patching up a monolith Pension reform in Greece has been a work in progress for the past 75 years and there is still a long way to go, finds George Coats
