All IPE articles in June 2011 (Magazine)
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Features
Martin Steward: The numbers game
Everyone knows about the spectacular growth of online gaming over the past 10 years. You probably have companies making money from this business tucked away in your portfolio. Less well-known is its effect on some venerable casino-based games. It hasn’t drawn players away from casinos – quite the opposite – ...
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Country Report
Switzerland: Yes, but...
Swiss occupational pension reform is on schedule but the industry does not agree on how to implement it, reports Barbara Ottawa
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Features
The Mediterranean: Some scope for reform
Roxanne McMeeken examines Greece’s economic woes and the impact of pension reforms. There are signs that the private sector will have to play a greater role in future provision
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Widening the spectrum
Cypriot pension funds are slowly diversifying away from cash and local markets, writes Roxanne McMeeken
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Special Report
Quant: Man vs Machine
Andrew Kaplan offers his reflections as a fundamental value investor who found himself working at a ‘quant shop’
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Country Report
Switzerland: Pricing investment risk
Alfred Bühler and Lukas Riesen analyse the costs that arise by taking investment risk and the way they are shared
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Country Report
Switzerland: Pricing investment risk
Alfred Bühler and Lukas Riesen analyse the costs that arise by taking investment risk and the way they are shared
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Features
Liam Kennedy: Infrastructure pains
The US pioneered the development of modern fast roads with its interstate highway network in the 1950s and 60s. Yet the August 2007 collapse of the Mississippi Bridge in Minnesota highlighted the decrepit state of some of this infrastructure. And it is not just roads that need to be developed.
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Country Report
Switzerland: Industry views
As part of the structural reform of the second pillar, Swiss regulations BVV1 regarding the supervision of occupational pensions and BVV2 concerning occupational pensions, disability and bereavement provision – have been amended. A new regulation, ASV, is also set to take effect from January 2012. As part of the legislative ...
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Stuck at the reform impasse
Malta’s pension working group has recommended the development of second pillar pensions. So far there has been no action, writes Stephanie Testaferrata
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Go figure
Reeta Paakkinen assesses growing calls for liberalisation to Turkey’s private pension investment regime as interest rates drop to single figures
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Go figure
Reeta Paakkinen assesses growing calls for liberalisation to Turkey’s private pension investment regime as interest rates drop to single figures
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Special Report
Credit: Steady as she goes
Even Europe’s most sophisticated pension funds took a sober view of the greatest credit value opportunity of all time, finds Lynn Strongin-Dodds
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Country Report
Switzerland: Converging problems
‘Too rash, too unadvised, too sudden’ is Juliet’s appraisal of Romeo’s declaration of love. This characterises the thinking of member companies of the BVK about proposed recovery measures, writes Barbara Ottawa
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Special ReportCredit: At the cliff edge
An IPE snap poll suggests that even at the bottom of the nastiest bear market and the top of the longest bull market in history, portfolio positioning is far from simple. Martin Steward reports
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Special Report
Quant: Integrated circuit
What happens when a big, traditional asset management company sets out to diversify its risk and revenue streams by acquiring a smaller team of successful quants? Rob Job, head of business development at quants specialist PanAgora Asset Management, outlines his firm’s model of an operating committee with “business-oriented people” like ...
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Special Report
Quant: Of arms and the market
High frequency trading not only borrows military technology, it also looks like an arms race on a global liquidity battlefield. Stuart Baden Powell asks if innocent bystanders are getting hurt
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Special Report
Credit: Anatomy of a crisis
Joseph Mariathasan takes us on a tour of the crash and recovery, asks where bond investors should be looking next – and reminds us that credit is never, ever, a free lunch
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Special Report
Quant: All in the numbers
Anthony Harrington asks what went wrong for quants during the crisis, but also questions the received wisdom that ‘all quants are the same’
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Country Report
Switzerland: Accounting mortality
Benno Amrosini and Ruben Lombardi assess the application of generational mortality tables, and their impact on the balance sheet and income statement
