Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 139
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InterviewsHow we run our money: CPEG
Grégoire Haenni, CIO of CPEG, the public pension fund for the Swiss canton of Geneva, explains the fund’s multidimensional approach to asset allocation
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Strategically speaking: Montanaro Asset Management
As a Europe-focused small and mid-cap manager, the decision of London-based Montanaro Asset Management to launch its Better World fund, a global impact focused fund after a 27-year track record as a European house, was most certainly a change in strategic direction.
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Politics remains the bellwether
Financial markets continue to be influenced by news, and tweets, about the US-China trade negotiations. While stock markets have sold off during the second quarter of 2019, and credit spreads have widened, this financial tightening is so far less than what happened over the last few months of 2018.
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FeaturesAhead of the curve: Unlocking new insights
Fundamental investment success involves developing a view on global trends and future market directions as well as identifying relevant investments that are aligned with this strategy. This second step of the process is long and labourious.
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Special ReportTotal global AUM 2019
All the asset managers featured in the Top 400 ranked by worldwide and external institutional assets under management. Assets managed by these groups total €66.4trn (2018: €65.7trn)
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FeaturesInterview: Haukur Hafsteinsson, LSR
The government pensions veteran bids farewell to LSR, Iceland’s largest pension, after 34 years as its chief executive
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ESG: Evolving non-financial reporting
This month, the European Commission is due to release guidelines on climate-related reporting by companies.
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator: June 2019
Last months’ move away from political risk continued this month for the US, the EU and Japan. The UK figures were stable or moving slightly in the opposite direction, reflecting worries over Brexit with the UK body politic in disarray.
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Beat Zaugg
A striking indication of ESG’s importance in Switzerland is that Ueli Maurer, the country’s president, will be the keynote speaker at the Swiss Sustainable Finance annual conference in Bern
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Opinion PiecesIPE Perspective: Two sides to the MMT premise
Is there any merit in functional finance versus classical economic theory?
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Practitioners defend ESG from executive threat
The proxy season was different in the US this time around. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) resolutions – as well as the use of those criteria for investing – are under scrutiny by the Trump administration and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Top 120 European institutional managers 2019
The largest European asset managers featured in the Top 400 survey 2019
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Institutional clients 2019
The top ten asset managers managing assets on behalf of each type of institutional client, worldwide.
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Non-institutional clients 2019
AUM for non-institutional clients (direct to retail, wholesale, private wealth)
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Actively and passively managed assets 2019
Total assets managed on an active and passive basis
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Developed market equities 2019
The biggest managers of developed market equities on behalf of all external clients and all external European institutional clients
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Emerging market equities 2019
Emerging market equities on behalf of all worldwide and external European institutional clients.
