All IPE articles in June 2009 (Magazine) – Page 2
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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
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
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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Interviews
IAM what IAM
It’s been an eventful few years for fund of hedge funds International Asset Management (IAM).
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Special Report
Seed capital
Global demographics are driving agricultural returns for both financial and real assets, writes Martin Steward
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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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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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