All IPE articles in June 2018 (magazine)
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Country Report
1e Pension Plans: Staying popular?
1e pension plans are facing reform. Will this hinder their continued popularity?
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Special ReportTop 400 Asset Managers 2018: 10 years of asset growth
This September marks 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the high-water mark of the 2007-09 financial crisis – a decade of profound changes and steady growth for the asset management industry
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator: June 2018
This month’s IPE Expectations Indicator poll sees no change in some areas, some change in others, and a continuation of a long-term trend, which is, in itself, both a change and not a change.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Who cares about our €3.5trn?
PensionsEurope is concerned about a Brexit ‘no deal’ and is calling for negotiators to pay heed to the €3.54trn sector’s interests
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Featuresaba Anniversary Conference: ‘Grasp opportunities reform offers’
Germany’s occupational pension association delivered an impassioned defence of the country’s second-pillar pension system at its 80th annual conference in Berlin last month.
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Features
Accounting Matters: Cutting the clutter
The IASB’s disclosure initiative project has passed many people by. It dates back to 2011, when the board needed something to do after the US refused to adopt IFRS
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Activist funds turn up the heat
Several hedge funds are among the most successful activist investors
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Special ReportArtificial intelligence: Smart advantage
Global asset managers are committing more resources to the development of funds using artificial intelligence. How will this affect portfolio management?
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Valuable tools for EMs
Emerging markets have smaller safety nets, making them prone to boom and bust cycles
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Features
Asset Allocation: Mirages and safe havens
Creeping tensions have appeared in the interbank market that, in the past, sowed the seeds of economic downturns and financial crises
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Features
Asset Allocation: Testing economic normality
Although the world economy is moving towards normalisation, after the global financial crisis, it is still testing, and sometimes breaching, so-called normal bounds
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Asset Class Reports
Time for new alpha ideas
New products are making hedge funds look like an expensive way to access alpha
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Asset Class Reports
Managed Futures: In pursuit of ‘crisis alpha’
Professional stock-picking and portfolio construction are still valid strategies
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Interviews
On the Record: How do you invest in alternative credit?
Ilmarinen, Unilever, Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (ÄVWL)
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Special ReportAlternatives: Digitise or jeopardise
Alternative investment managers face a stark choice as digitisation increases
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Features
UK Equities: The pariah asset
No one wants UK equities. The influential global fund manager survey published by Bank of America Merrill Lynch reported that they were the most unpopular asset in April
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: AXA IM
Half Italian, half Swedish, CEO of a French company but resident in London, Andrea Rossi embodies what he would like his tenure to be remembered for – diversity
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Harvard gets down to business
It has been a busy 18 months for NP ‘Narv’ Narvekar, who became CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) in December 2016. At the end of this month, he will complete HMC’s first fiscal year completely under his responsibility
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Special Report
Dollar: A case for hedging tactics
Hedging is one way for investors in the dollar to reduce the risk presented by the currency’s unpredictable movements
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Special ReportEurope Outlook: Germany faces the ultimate driving challenge
Developments in electric powered cars and autonomous vehicles pose substantial challenges to Germany’s engineering might
