All IPE articles in June 2009 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Special Report
Seeing the wood for the trees
Timberland is growing in favour as distressed sales make the investment affordable. Nina Röhrbein discusses the sustainability aspects
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Features
More than a euro/dollar play?
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds attitudes towards currency management
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Interviews
IAM what IAM
It’s been an eventful few years for fund of hedge funds International Asset Management (IAM).
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Special Report
Gold: currency of last resort?
It has been years since the world abandoned the gold standard, but now, for many institutional investors, allocating to gold has become about currency and inflation hedging, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Special Report
Use some discretion
In a volatile environment, systematic quantitative styles of currency management struggle to find their footing. Fundamentals-based strategies provide the best alpha-generation and preservation opportunities, argues Mark Farrington
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Special Report
Sound FX
It is not certain whether the currency risk of an equity portfolio can be hedged effectively. Martin Steward assesses this and pension funds’ changing approaches to currency risk
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Special Report
Trillions of dollars of expense
US institutions discussed the prospect of a new investment world at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles at the end of April. Liam Kennedy, who moderated the institutional investors’ panel, here discusses what they had to say
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Country Report
Economic crisis slows private sector
The impact of the global slowdown and growing unemployment have had the effect of limiting private pensions to the third pillar and delayed discussion of creating a second pillar, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Country ReportCommon factors despite diversity
Cyprus, Malta, Greece and Turkey have many factors in common. Not least is a need for pension reform, finds George Coats
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Features
Deficits raise questions over the future of Sweden’s AP funds
George Coats examines whether it is time to put politics aside and create one buffer fund that can provide for all generations and save money in the process
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Features
A better approach to solvency
The Dutch regulator is using the wrong measure to assess pension liabilities, argue Piet Duffhues and Anton van Nunen. They offer a different approach
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Features
Regulation and ALM
Samuel Sender argues that IAS19 should tolerate funding volatility for DB obligations and that pension funds should improve internal risk models
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint
“Seeing that the key to restoring stability lies with them, pension funds are a growing force for change”
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Features
Big is not beautiful
I have mixed views about big fund managers merging. It is not obvious what the benefits are for us at Wasserdicht Pensioenfonds. Our consultant has traditionally (and I think mistakenly) recommended big firms simply because they were big. But big to huge to utterly enormous is not a life cycle ...
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Features
Crunch-time commodities
Oil prices have driven a commodities rally this spring as crude rose from its low of early 2009. How is this backdrop affecting investors’ attitudes towards commodities? This month’s Off The Record survey sampled pension funds’ attitude towards commodities.
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Special Report
Upheavals in the fee world
Credit crisis pressures are forcing trustees and boards to seek more from their custodians both in terms of better risk management and lower costs, finds Iain Morse
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