Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 156
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Interviews
On the Record: Manager Due Diligence
The suspension of a GAM fund manager has revived the discussion about due diligence. We asked three pension funds how they deal with it
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InterviewsHow we run our money: ÄVWL
Christian Mosel, CEO of Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe, the pension fund for doctors in Germany’s Westphalia-Lippe region, talks about his old-fashioned approach to investment
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Features
German Longevity: Are the tables turning?
The rate of increase in life expectancy in Germany appears to be slowing down
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Features
Turkey: Rethinking auto-enrolment
Despite generous state incentives in the Turkish auto-enrolment system, opt-out rates are high
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Features
Benchmarking: Redefining investment classes
A major GICS index methodology change seeks to reflect underlying market economics
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Features
Liquid Alternatives: The long and the short of it
The long/short liquid alternatives universe is more hetreogenous than some realise
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Allianz Global Investors
The debates over the failures of active managers and parallel growth of passive investment often neglect two important facts
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: A hawkish Fed spooks all
Not many predicted the equity sell-off at the start of the fourth quarter, and there is still puzzlement as to what triggered it
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: The risk premium of downturns
Alternative risk premia strategies can be helpful for institutional investor portfolios through diversification and risk reduction
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: Liz Nolan, State Street
“The irony that the UK’s first business day outside of the EU will be April Fools’ Day is not lost on anyone”
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Controversial nomination for PBGC
How do you fix a pension programme that has liabilities of $67.3bn (€58.4bn) and assets of only $2.3bn?
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Opinion PiecesLetter from Brussels: Brussels seeks to bolster secondary market in non-performing loans
Are non-peforming loans an investor’s dream come true? Or do they represent immeasurable risks?
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Special Report
Green growth at heart of EU agenda
A taxonomy for sustainable investments is a key element of expert proposals
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Special Report
Investor Profile: Japan Government Pension Investment Fund
GPIF’s 100-year perspective places ESG at the heart of its world view
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Special Report
Quantifying external factors
A Mumbai-based advisory firm is promoting alternative measures to quantify added value
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Special Report
Climate change mitigation is a good investment
International support is needed to reverse the vicious circle of climate vulnerability and higher cost of capital in developing countries
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Special Report
Making impact investing more investor-friendly
Impact investing – investing in a way that delivers both attractive financial returns and measurable social or environmental benefits – has come a long way in the last decade.
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Special Report
Walking the walk
In the past, fund managers would not necessarily spring to mind when thinking of ways to tackle climate change. Yet we are increasingly seeing more and more investors on the environmental frontline
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Special Report
Gender balance: what’s your excuse?
Investors should accept that there has been more than enough time to sensitise boards. Now is the time for brave leadership
