All IPE articles in June 2011 (Magazine) – Page 3
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Special ReportCredit: Yielding products, rising rates
Roy Kuo and Emily Upson run through the characteristics and recent performance of a range of yielding products, offering portfolio solutions for a rising rates environment
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Special Report
Credit: X marks the spot
The hinterland between investment grade and high yield delivers an intriguing risk profile. But Martin Steward also finds that it has been changing rapidly
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Asset Class Reports
US Equities: Concentration on quality
High quality franchises with a global outlook can deliver returns well ahead of the US market, finds Joseph Mariathasan. But it can be a bumpy ride
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Features
Come up, we’re sinking
Feeling conflicted about inflation? If so, take comfort in the fact you are not alone. At the moment, everyone on Planet Earth appears to have ambivalent feelings about the topic. In the space of just two weeks, the industry has generated surveys, studies and reports prophesying that either inflation is about to spread across the planet like The Blob, devouring income and destroying wealth, or that the spectre of deflation is about drag us all back to the 1930s.
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Opinion Pieces
Clearer position on derivatives
Powerful forces are pushing both for and against an opt-out for pension funds from central clearing requirements in proposed legislation on market infrastructure, making it anyone’s guess as to the final result. However, the European parliamentary rapporteur’s softening of position must be reasonable grounds for hope.
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Opinion Pieces
Wouter Pelser: CIO Mn Services
“Changes are necessary to ensure the sustainability of private equity investments and commitments by pension funds”
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Features
Building Bubbleville?
Emma Cusworth asks if there is enough infrastructure for sale to cope with investor demand – and how to buy it cost-effectively
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Features
Best practice for the DC payout phase
As DC pension systems grow, it is crucial to ensure scheme members get the best possible value from their savings at the payout stage, finds Gail Moss
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Special Report
Credit: Thinking beyond the benchmark
D William Kohli discusses the need for a broader opportunity set in a rising rate environment
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Features
In pole position to become CEE hub
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is proving a favourite with CEE-originated IPOs and emerging CEE countries. Iain Morse reports
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Features
The small print on alternatives
Pension schemes spare no expense buying ‘proper advice’ on investment matters – but often neglect to seek it on their investment vehicles. Winston Penhall outlines the legal niceties of private equity and hedge fund investments
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Special Report
Quant: An alternative Aspect
Martin Steward talks to Martin Lueck about why systematic managed futures shone in 2008 while other quantitative strategies sank
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Features
Pragmatism redefines active-passive
With investors losing trillions in the 2007-09 bear market, they are questioning whether active management delivers value. In the process, they are also recognising that active and passive management are but a means to an end. What really matters is the client’s own investment philosophy and the combination of active and passive strategies that is consistent with it.
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Interviews
Across the Gulf… and into the world
Limestone Asset Management launched its first fund, the New Europe Socially Responsible fund, in July 2008. Great timing: it was down 47% by December. But, that was 2.6 percentage points better than its benchmark, the Stoxx EU Enlarged Total Market index. And it made quite a comeback: when it ended 2009 up 83.1%, it left the index trailing by 42 percentage points – outperformance which it has built on since.
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Features
Changing of the guards at Aba
The sceptre has been handed over – in this case, it is actually a shiny metal cigar case which the first chairman of the Aba, Albrecht Weiß (1890-1961), received from members for his sixtieth birthday in the early years of Aba’s existence.
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Asset Class Reports
US Equities: 20 heads are better than one
Joseph Mariathasan takes a look at Neuberger Berman’s Flexible All Cap US Equity strategy
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