All IPE articles in June 2016 (Magazine)
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Features
Currency hedging 2.0
Ugo Lancioni, Fredrik Repton and Nikola Petrovic argue that it is possible to make currency hedging more forward looking and better integrated into asset allocation
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Features
BlackRock dominates as LGIM joins 10 largest managers
BlackRock continues to dominate the asset management world, managing a third more in assets than Vanguard, the second largest manager (€4.398trn to €3.091trn), according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey.
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Special ReportTop 400 Asset Managers 2016: Global assets now €56.3trn
Assets managed by the leading global asset managers increased by nearly 12% over the course of last year, according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey. This is less than the 17.8% increase recorded over the course of 2014, although higher than 2013’s 8.9% increase.
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Special Report
Top 400: Trends in Asset Management - Time for reinvention
Asset managers face an existential crisis as they confront the end of a six-year rise in asset prices. What does the future hold for the industry? Christopher O’Dea investigates
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Special Report
Top 400: Investment Returns - The reality of new-world investing
The new world of ultra-low interest rates could be here to stay, so investors need to change the way they think about investing. Tapan Datta explains
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Special Report
Top 400: Debt Build-up - Lifeline is becoming a burden
Asset managers can no longer rely on central banks to shore-up the markets, according to Amin Rajan and Pascal Blanqué
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Special Report
Top 400: Changing times in China
The boom in China’s asset management industry should create opportunities for overseas investors, says Qin Xu
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Special Report
Top 400: Liquidity-Risk Management - Managing fund liquidity in Europe
Regulators have turned their attention to addressing the European asset management industry’s handling of liquidity risk, writes Federico Cupelli
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Special Report
Top 400: Multi-asset investing renaissance
Multi-asset strategies have many diversification benefits for investors in today’s challenging environment, according to Phil Edwards and Ben Lewis
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Special Report
Top 400: Disruptive Technology - The four ‘Ds’ of disruption
JR Lowry believes that digitisation, de-risking, disintermediation and democratisation are transforming the asset management industry
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Special Report
Top 400: A digital wake-up call
Investment firms have to compete with their conventional peers and fast-growing fintech start-ups when it comes to client communication, writes Catherine Doherty
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Special Report
Top 400: Productivity - Improving the wider economy
The asset management industry should focus more on long-term value creation, says Andrew Ninian
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Top 400: Investor Trust - Overcoming the trust deficit
Paul Smith argues that investment managers have a responsibility to be good fiduciary managers and ethical participants in the financial markets
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Absolutely no excuses
The big US proxy fights – at Chevron, Exxon and Southern Company – over resolutions to publish 2°C climate change stress tests happened in May. Did common sense prevail?
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Features
Accounting: Play it again, Sam
The IFRS Foundation’s latest effectiveness review has drawn criticism. But you could be forgiven for thinking you have read it somewhere before
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Country Report
Norway: Accumulation key
Rachel Fixsen discusses the Government Pension Fund Norway with Lars Tronsgaard, deputy chief executive at its asset manager, Folketrygdfondet
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: There’s gold in currency trading
Christopher Cruden makes the case for investing in gold by treating it as a major currency
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Alfred Gohdes - Willis Towers Watson
“The cost for a German young person to provide for a pension has roughly tripled since 2008”
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
As 2016 opened, the fate of emerging market assets was tied to fears of renminbi devaluation and the collapse in commodity prices. Now market focus has moved, and with a bounce in commodities it is Chinese economic news, as well as the ever-important Fed pronouncements, that determine mood.
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Features
Europe is already one economy
In the midst of the 2012 euro-zone crisis, American economist Fred Bergsten called the euro-zone a “half-built house”. In an outspoken article in the September/October 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine he argued that, to solve the crisis, the flawed institutional design of the euro-zone had to be improved.
