Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 186
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Features
Industry Views: FCA review
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released the final report of its 18-month Asset Management Market Study in the summer. The study offered evidence that the UK market for institutional investment advice and fiduciary management is not working efficiently.
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Interviews
Focus Group: EMD inspires confidence
We asked a group of European pension funds with total assets of €180bn about their emerging market debt strategies
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Interviews
On the Record: How important is a pension fund’s reputation?
Three pension funds – ÄVWL, Ilmarinen and Pensioenfonds PGB – talk about the importance of reputation and trust
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InterviewsHow we run our money: HSBC UK Pension Scheme
Mark Thompson, CIO of HSBC’s UK pension scheme, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the scheme’s creative de-risking solutions and search for innovation in DC provision
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FeaturesEBIT: an interesting development
A look at the IASB’s latest attempts to devise a consistent way to measure and compare companies’ performance
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Features
Oil: Changing oil price drivers
New technologies are among factors transforming global energy markets
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Features
Macro Matters: The revenge of geography
The internet is fuelling rising global populism and digital protectionism
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FeaturesESG: Sustainable finance to the rescue?
An advisory body to the European Commission has set out a vision for sustainable finance
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: La Française
Can mid-sized asset management firms survive in today’s world?
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Features
Asset Allocation: A Goldilocks period for risk
With such a notable lack of inflation throughout developed markets, the world’s seemingly synchronised economic growth spurt is not really reflationary in the classic sense
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Oil as an economic barometer
As Donald Trump’s presidency faces its sternest political tests so far, markets have begun to temper some of their frothiness
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Special Report
Ireland: Long path to DB protection
Politicians seek protection for defined benefit pension schemes that have been wound up
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator September 2017
Investment managers’ expectations have been welcomingly accurate throughout the year. For example, positive sentiment toward European equities began to rise sharply near the end of 2016, followed by a roughly 20% rise in 2017. Additionally, expectations for dollar strength have been falling since January, and the dollar index (DXY) was down nearly 10% year-to-date through the recent survey period. What are managers’ views as we enter the second half of 2017?
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Features
Setting Sweden’s buffer funds loose
Sweden’s four largest AP funds appeared to have had their greatest wish granted this summer
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Opinion PiecesGuest viewpoint: Peter Kraneveld
“The elephant graph explains why people are unhappy”
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Tax benefits boost rise of HSAs
Will HSAs become the new IRAs? Some operators in the US retirement industry say so
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Tax threatens PEPP proposal
At first sight, the benefits of the European Commission’s Pan European Personal Pension (PEPP) regulation proposal seem clear. But it did not take long for commentators to point out the considerable hurdles
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Features
Trade dispute: Germany against the rest
Foreign criticism of Germany’s strong trade performance is escalating
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Special Report
Italy: Focus on flexibility
Lawmakers in Italy are increasing flexibility of access to pensions to soften the impact of the rising retirement age and boost savings
