All IPE articles in June 2016 (Magazine)
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Asset Class Reports
US Treasuries: Safety in volume
US Treasuries, the ultimate safe financial instrument, are continuing to match investor demand even without the incentive of further rate hikes from the Federal Reserve
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Features
From Our Perspective: Under the thumb
Some occupational pensions and their regulatory systems were designed for another era. Increasingly, fixed-rate annual accrual or guarantee systems, like German and Swiss Pensionskassen, look like relics.
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Special Report
The Netherlands: Managing, not matching
Dutch schemes have switched to dynamic liability-driven investment strategies. But in the current economic environment portfolios are unlikely to shift, Leen Preesman finds
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Features
A thin regulatory line
Back in the 1990s, the UK created a Child Support Agency, whose objective was to ensure errant fathers and mothers pay due financial maintenance to estranged offspring
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Special Report
Safer but less profitable
Europe’s banks no longer seem to face a systemic threat but their profits are meagre. David Turner reports
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your liability-driven investment strategy?
Three pension funds - Blue Sky Group, HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme and Pension Protection Fund - talk about their approach to LDI
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Features
Research: An inventive retirement solution
Governments should issue bonds that encompass both the accumulation and decumulation phases for defined contribution participants, argues Arun Muralidhar
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Special Report
Integration: A work in progress
The European Union has made substantial progress towards economic integration but there is some way to go before it can achieve its full potential, writes Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Special Report
Innovation: The ‘missing link’ in a new world
In the new world of interest rate derivatives, asset managers need to engage in product innovation and technological change, argue David Bullen and Gavin Dixon
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Country Report
Norway: Seeking illiquidity
Åmund Lunde, chief executive of Olso Pensjonsforsikring, tells Rachel Fixsen how the fund has improved returns through an increased allocation to real estate and infrastructure
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Country Report
Iceland: Slowly but surely
Iceland’s capital controls imposed in the wake of the country’s banking crisis eight years ago are being lifted for pension funds, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Features
How we run our money: Stapi
Arne Vagn Olsen, CIO of Stapi, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s asset allocation strategy as the capital controls on Icelandic pension funds are gradually lifted
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Special Report
Fundamentals: The long view
Economic debate tends to focus obsessively on short-term indicators while underestimating the importance of productivity and business investment, Daniel Ben-Ami explains
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Country Report
Finland: Overseas returns
Reeta Paakkinen writes that Finnish pension funds are looking to diversify their real estate portfolios in their quest for worthwhile returns in the current low-interest-rate environment
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Special Report
Special Report – Outlook for Europe: Focusing on the long term
It is astonishing how much economic and financial discussion focuses on the short-term and essentially trivial.
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Features
Research: Driving an energy transition
Jane Ambachtsheer discusses the outcome of an initiative to raise investor awareness of climate change and focus efforts on clean energy investment
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Country Report
Pensions In Turkey: Diversification lanes open
Amendments to pension market rules are opening opportunities for pension funds to diversify their portfolios through investments in property and foreign equities. Reeta Paakkinen reports
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Special Report
Is German economic thinking different?
Germany’s economic policy is undoubtedly coloured by its troubled historical experience but does this make it unique or is it a just a free-market outlook with a Germanic flavour? Daniel Ben-Ami investigates
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Features
Diary of an Investor: It’s the way you say it
Wasserdicht’s Dutch pension fund is looking to improve the way it communicates with members. Or as Rolf, our chairman of trustees, puts it, the way we talk about bad news
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Country Report
Denmark: Strength in size
Rachel Fixsen looks at the importance of co-operation and collaboration between Danish pension funds as the price of real estate and infrastructure investments continues to grow