All IPE articles in June 2015 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Country Report
Q&A with Karin Oertli, head of UBS Global Asset Management Switzerland
The Swiss financial industry is changing, with providers facing stricter regulation, increased international competition and a heightened cost awareness by clients
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Country Report
Asset Management Costs: Effects of transparency
The requirement to publish total expense ratios in the annual reports of Swiss Pensionskassen is changing the market
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Awaking a sleep-walking economy
A few more European cross-border lending opportunities have started to emerge. This follows anticipation of the European Investment Plan launched by Jean-Claude Juncker
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: DB pensions bond bind
US corporate pension funds are caught in a dilemma. They are buying long-dated bonds to match their liabilities but in doing so they are driving down their yields, making liabilities look more expensive
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Dick Boeijen & Niels Kortleve - PGGM
“The Netherlands can learn from countries with more experience of DC and other countries can profit from Dutch expertise of risk sharing”
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Asset Class ReportsEuro-zone sovereign bonds: A parallel world
Regulation continues to push European pension funds to invest in euro-zone government debt at increasingly unattractive yields
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Asset Class Reports
Euro-zone sovereign bonds: State of the nations
QE helps but only reform can resolve the euro-zone’s problems, according to David Zahn
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Features
Briefing: What the IASB insurance model could spell for pensions
With the IASB about to embark on an overhaul of pensions accounting, Stephen Bouvier looks at what it might mean to apply the board’s insurance liability model to a pension promise
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Asset Class ReportsBuybacks briefing: Eating their own cooking
In the past few years, companies from many sectors have found a single new favourite investment – their own stock
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Country ReportSwitzerland: Pensionskassen keep calm under negative rate storm
Switzerland has not seen negative rates since the 1970s, years before the creation of the current BVG second-pillar system
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Human capital dilemma
Institutional investors are being asked to take sides in corporate/union disputes, the latest being National Express and Teamsters
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Features
ESG investment: A Japanese carrot and a stick
In 2014, four years after the UK, Japan became the first country to issue a similar Stewardship Code. He look at the cultural shift occurring in a market traditionally lacking engaged investors
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Special Report
The unique case of Greece
The tribulations of recent years have turned Greece into a unique case within the euro-zone
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Special ReportEuro-zone recovery: Catching a tailwind
Euro-zone assets have generally performed well in recent years, but there are some substantial hurdles if their growth is to be sustained
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Special Report
Risk parity: The interest rate challenge
Risk parity managers say they are ready to meet the challenge of acute interest rate uncertainty
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Special Report
Two cheers for the euro-zone
January’s announcement by the ECB of its bond purchase programme has been followed by good numbers
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Special Report
Risk parity and commodity investing
Joseph Mariathasan assesses the role of risk parity strategies in commodities
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Features
Focus Group: Recovery to continue
Fourteen of the 21 investors polled for this month’s Focus Group are confident that Europe’s economic recovery is sustainable in the medium term. “No inflation and labour problems are too serious to be solved in the next 18 months,” said an Italian fund.
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Special Report
Risk parity cost: The price of protection
How much should a risk parity strategy cost?
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Features
EIOPA ignores industry ire in stress test crusade
Would Europe’s pension funds be able to withstand a sudden reversal in asset prices, with the stock spreading across all developed nations?
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