All IPE articles in June 2014 (Magazine) – Page 4

  • Special Report

    Liability-Driven Investment: Mind the gap

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    Market conditions over the past six years have increased the necessity of managing bond-swap spread risk in LDI strategies. 

  • Special Report

    Liability-Driven Investment: Let's get physical

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    Are low risk-free rates, a greater willingness to take credit and illiquidity risk in matching portfolios and regulatory changes encouraging investors to turn their backs on derivatives and embrace cash-market assets? 

  • Features

    Investing in a slow-growth world

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    Demographic trends probably mean slower economic growth in the developed world. Katherine Davidson argues that a thorough understanding of demographics will be essential for generating alpha in this environment

  • Features

    Nudging its way to reform

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    Nearly two years after the German pension association aba threw its weight behind the introduction of auto-enrolment, little has happened to increase the coverage of the second pillar.

  • Features

    Look to the north

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    In the Netherlands we are sensitive to environmental problems and are aware of our vulnerability as a low-lying nation to rising sea level. After all, you have to if a fifth of your land and a fifth of your people are below sea level. 

  • Opinion Pieces

    M&A medicine

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    The debate about Pfizer’s proposed takeover of the UK’s AstraZeneca – which should have resolved itself by the time you read this – reminds us that there are some big unanswered questions relating to institutional investors and M&A activity.

  • Features

    Pressure on, pressure off

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    The 22 July deadline for implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is looming. As with other EU financial legislation, AIFMD will be enforced via national regulators and with varying approaches, so this will not be consistent across EU member states.

  • Features

    So sue me

    June 2014 (Magazine)

    European institutional investors have been more reluctant to use the law to enforce their rights than their US counterparts. But recent actions suggest this might be about to change, writes Stephen Bouvier