All IPE articles in June 2014 (Magazine)
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Special ReportTop 400: Global assets up 8.9% in 2013
M&A has featured highly in asset management in recent years. Until now, this has largely been dictated by external circumstances, such as bank parent companies seeking to increase capital adequacy or to abide by competition regulations.
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Liability-Driven Investments: The other 30%
Martin Steward looks at swaptions strategies to cover contingencies around the rump of LDI users’ un-hedged liabilities
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Special ReportTop 400: The essential C-word in investment management
Mitesh Sheth defines 10 dimensions of an undervalued factor in investment management
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Special ReportTop 400: Not so hasty: Keeping a manager when the going gets tough
Rick di Mascio argues that the decision about whether to sack an underperforming manager should be one that focuses on process, not just performance numbers
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Special ReportTop 400: Innovating in a world where winner takes all
A person who moves a mountain starts by taking away a small stone, according to a Chinese saying. This applies to the asset management industry today, say Amin Rajan and Kevin Pleiter
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Special ReportTop 400: Managers pursue rationalisation
Alastair Sewell and Erwin van Lumich believe that recent transactions are unlikely to herald widespread M&A among European asset managers but that rationalisation will continue
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Special ReportTop 400: Finance and regulation
Nitin Mehta believes professional bodies and well-run self-regulatory organisations can help buffer the sometimes competing priorities of regulators and the financial industry
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Special ReportTop 400: The burden of harmony
MIFID II and other European regulations are not as consistent as they seem, says Mike Ginnelly
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Special ReportTop 400: Are we doing this right? Are we doing this well?
Catherine Doherty looks at the mechanical and cultural work that investment managers are doing to improve their own businesses
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Special ReportTop 400: Preventive medicine
Risk departments and portfolio managers don’t speak the same language on risk, argues Ian Webster. An integrated approach is essential
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Special ReportTop 400: A painful legacy
Legacy and outdated technologies are costly and are increasingly attracting the attention of regulators, according to Peter Hill
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Special ReportTop 400: Investing under the influence
Craig Stevenson argues that activist hedge funds strategies can be beneficial for investors but that collaborative approaches are more likely to be effective
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Special ReportTop 400: Smart factor investing
It is important but insufficient to focus on the factor exposure of an index – it is also necessary to optimise the associated risk and return, according to Noël Amenc
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Risk and Portfolio Construction: Absolutely clear
Absolute return bond strategies are understandably attracting a lot of attention, but it is a complex and diverse sector. Joseph Mariathasan looks at some key characteristics
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Risk and Portfolio Construction: All change
Tapan Datta asks how investors can begin to address uncertainty in a rising yield environment, in bond portfolios, multi-asset portfolios and LDI strategies
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Nordic Region: Energising alternatives
Rachel Fixsen reports on the search for new investment opportunities within the alternatives sector
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Asset Class Reports
Developed Market Sovereign Bonds: 'UniCredit's analysis is flawed'
Standard & Poor’s Moritz Kraemer responds to UniCredit’s paper on subjective bias in sovereign bond credit ratings
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Features
Ongoing FTK delay annoys pensions sector
Tensions are rising in the Dutch pensions sector. Every day that details for the new financial assessment framework (FTK) fail to appear – let alone pass Parliament – pension funds, providers, advisers and asset managers must anxiously weigh their options.
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Risk and Portfolio Construction: Annus horribilis?
After a 30-year bond bull market and an arguably easy run for risk parity, in 2013 practitioners suddenly found themselves grappling with significant problems in multiple asset classes. Jennifer Bollen asks four leading managers how they coped with the consequences of last summer’s bonds slump
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Features
Another eventful summer
The Spanish Treasury joined the UK, Germany, France and Italy as the fifth European sovereign to issue inflation-linked bonds on 13 May, raising €5bn for 10-year paper that was four times oversubscribed.
