All IPE articles in June 2018 (magazine)
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Features
Venturing into the unknown
Two projects designed to boost investment in local ‘growth’ companies and domestic assets were in the news last month, but for different reasons
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Features
‘Quitaly’ remains an unlikely prospect
European markets have clearly shown anxiety about the joint reform programme presented by the two parties that have agreed to form a coalition government in Italy
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Features
The price of skill
It remains to be seen whether pension funds regain their appetite for higher-fee alternative strategies that have fallen out of favour in recent years
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Country Report
Switzerland: Preparing for the next set of reforms
Talks on the reform of the Swiss first and second pillar have been prolonged by the 2017 rejection of the Altersvorsorge 2020 pac
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Features
Short Selling: The long and the short
Earlier this year, the UK politician Peter Kyle described BlackRock as “schizophrenic” for holding both long and short positions in Carillion, a London-listed construction company that went bankrupt in January.
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Special Report
Italy: plain sailing, for now
The Italian economy is doing well in the short term but the long-term outlook is less clear
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Interviews
How we run our money: TPT Retirement Solutions
Cliff Speed, CIO of TPT Retirement Solutions (pictured), tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo how the fund is trying to develop a portfolio that can withstand market volatility
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Fiona Stewart & Georg Inderst
“A growing body of research shows ESG factors are a material credit risk for fixed-income investors”
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Country Report
ESG: The Swiss shade of green
Pensionskassen were slow to embrace ESG but many are now committed to integrating sustainable thinking into their strategies
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Special Report
ESG: Evolution of sustainable investing and modern practice
Despite the absence of a single definition of sustainable investing, investors are being asked to pay heed to risk, return and investment impact
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Asset Class Reports
What future for long/short equity?
Managers are finding new ways to pursue long/short equity strategies
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Special Report
The productivity enigma
The recent uptick in euro-zone productivity growth has gone strangely unnoticed
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Features
Engagement: Strengthening the rules
A new EU directive aims to promote shareholder engagement and stewardship but numerous barriers could limit its effectiveness
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Features
Technological diffusion is fraught
It is easy to forget just how long it can take for an invention to become a pervasive technology. Even the most brilliant idea can take time before it is widely adopted
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Who decides which engagement is fit for purpose?
Private responses to my recent article about investors who do ‘BS’ stewardship have raised two key questions
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Features
Macro Matters: Populism is far from dead
Few words are as visceral, and yet as ill-defined, as populism. It has become a catch-all phrase for the sense of malaise sweeping the world
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Features
Renminbi on path to currency standard
China’s renminbi is starting to challenge the dollar as the dominant global currency
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Features
Diary of an Investor: What’s up with research costs?
In fixed income, no-one has ever really known how the research impacts on investment costs
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Features
Pension Income: As simple as possible but as complex as necessary
The UK government has deregulated to make room for a radical reshaping of the private pensions industry, through the so-called ‘freedom and choice’ policy
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Country Report
Compenswiss: Futureproof
The reserve fund for Swiss social security is well-equipped to deal with growing deficits