Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 183
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Features
Heed the warning signs
The private equity market is showing clear signals that it is reaching the end of a multi-year growth cycle. Yet, surveys show investors are intent to increase allocations
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Special Report
Alternatives in demand
Universal-Investment’s latest investor statistics show how German institutions have started diversifying within alternatives
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging markets lag in software
Despite the huge size of emerging economies they have yet to produce global leaders in software
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Special Report
Research costs: Managers wrestle with MiFID
Many German asset managers have yet to decide how to apportion external research costs
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Special Report
Taxation: Changes ahead
What are the implications of the German Investment Tax Reform Law?
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Who bears the cost?
Sometimes I look back fondly on the simpler good old days.
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Features
LD gains a new lease of life
New holiday allowances fund will keep Denmark’s Lønmodtagernes Dyrtidsfond in operation for several extra decades
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Features
Universities scheme faces political scrutiny over deficit plans
Given the less-than-healthy state of the UK’s defined benefit pension schemes, it is no surprise that the largest such fund in the country also has the largest deficit
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Opinion Pieces
Long Term Matters: An Achilles’ heel for buybacks?
Investors are salivating over possible US corporate tax cuts. But evidence suggests this excitement is misplaced, at least from the perspective of the end beneficiaries
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Interviews
Focus Group: Spotlight on research costs
Pension funds have largely been absent from the debate about MiFID II and research costs. We asked a group of pension funds with total assets of over €330bn for their views
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your equity strategy?
Solidarietà Veneto, Pensioenfonds TNO and Nationwide Pension Fund share details about their equity exposure
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Features
Briefing: FRC under fire on company law
Has the UK FRC failed to enforce Section 172 of the Companies Act on directors’ duties?
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Features
Briefing: Proper plan design is way forward
International pension plans involve complex questions of structuring and compliance
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InterviewsHow we run our money: Joachim Schwind & Andreas Hilka
Joachim Schwind and Andreas Hilka, veterans of the German pension industry, tell Carlo Svaluto Moreolo how the country’s pension reform will change pension fund management
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Features
Private Equity: Buying in a seller’s market
Private equity has outperformed the public markets for the past five years and institutional investors have been ramping up allocations
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Features
China’s MSCI inclusion widens the assets horizon
The addition of China A-shares to the MSCI Emerging Market index is symbolically important for China and could lead to improvements in regulation and corporate governance
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Features
ESG: Hearing the voices of employees
The UK government hopes that strengthening the voice of employees in corporate governance arrangements will help restore public trust in business
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Robeco
Only a few weeks after the 1929 Wall Street crash, a group of seven Rotterdam businessmen set up the Rotterdamsch Beleggings Consortium, later shortened to Robeco
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Features
Asset Allocation: Economic growth holds steady
After a quieter summer for capital markets than in previous years, relieved risk assets remain popular. Economic growth has maintained a healthy pace with inflation yet to seriously surprise to the upside
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: The rise of the cloud corporates
Digitalisation has profound implications for how corporates do business. It affects the way goods or services are invented, produced, marketed and consumed
