Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 158
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ESG: Responsible investing that reduces your carbon footprint
The development of ESG indices reflects growing interest in divesting out of fossil fuel investments to address the threat posed by global warming
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Special ReportFactor investing & smart beta: What’s in a name?
Many smart beta ETFs are bought with the expectation of long-term market outperformance. The factors that many are based on have been proven both academically and empirically to produce excess returns
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Factor investing & smart beta: Advances in factor-based fixed income indices
Global fixed income investors have benefited from a long bull market that began in the early 1990s
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Special ReportFactor investing & smart beta: The smart beta (r)evolution
The ability of stocks with certain investment characteristics to outperform the market has been well understood and documented for decades. But options of how to implement this strategy were limited
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Markets & regions: Spotlight on US equities
US equities have proven overwhelmingly popular with investors desperate for signs of economic growth
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Markets & regions: Using ETFs to position for a US–China trade war
Many media and market commentators believe that the potential US-China trade war could be one of the largest risks facing the global economy
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Special ReportMarkets & regions: The dynamic market in Japanese equity ETFs
Opinions of Japan as a market tend to be quite polarised and the country has looked cheap on a valuation basis for quite some time, both historically and relatively
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Markets & regions: How commodities strategies can help investors diversify their portfolios
In the current market environment, investors are looking for asset classes that can lower overall portfolio volatility without sacrificing returns
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Special ReportNew frontiers: Getting to grips with cryptocurrencies
For institutional investors and asset managers, crypto-currencies pose a triple dilemma
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New frontiers: Esoteric ETFs – egregious or genius?
From companies capitalising on cannabis decriminalisation to the streaming of Quincy Jones’s music, you can almost guarantee there is an ETF available to enable you to invest in it
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Regulation: Spotlight on liquidity, transparency and viability
ETFs may represent a tiny speck on the overall investment landscape but they are one of the fastest-growing products in the investment industry
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FeaturesHolistic answers needed
Fiduciary management was conceived as a sophisticated and holistic solution to the shortcomings of pension asset management that became evident after the equity market downturn of 2000-03
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Country ReportUK retailers: tough times
High rents, online competition and lower consumer spending are all squeezing retailers, with implications for pensions
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Pensions reform poses IT puzzle
Dutch pension managers will need to significantly adjust their IT systems if a pensions contract with individual accrual becomes the key element in a new Dutch pensions system
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Special Report10 years since Lehman: Is asset management the next threat to financial stability?
The evidence of systemic risk in the asset management sector is limited but is kept under close scrutiny
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Special ReportFiduciary management: All-clear for UK consultancies
Regulators have eased concerns over competition within the UK investment consultancy and fiduciary management sectors
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Commodities: A boost for material benefits
Rising risk of inflation and geopolitical uncertainties are enhancing the role of commodities as a portfolio-diversifying strategy
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Special ReportTop 1000 Pension Funds 2018: A snapshot of a €7.2trn asset pool
The asset pool of Europe’s leading 1000 retirement funds now exceeds €7.22trn – a 2.49% increase over last year’s 4.45%
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Equities: Resisting a tantrum
Most emerging markets are regarded as reasonably placed to handle the impact of the winding up of quantitative easing in the West
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FeaturesAvoiding another Lehman
Postponing the difficult decisions involved in tackling the economy’s productive weaknesses will only make matters worse
