Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 195
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
With the eight anniversary of the risk asset rally passing in March, many have taken the opportunity to compare the longevity of this bull run to previous ones
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Strange days in credit
Amar Reganti looks for alternative sources of capital gains and income streams within a moribund fixed-income asset class
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Interviews
Focus Group: Risk-factor strategies in favour
Over three-quarters of the respondents to this month’s Focus Group are allocated to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts, with four of these considering further allocations
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Looking the part
We at Wasserdicht Pension Funds have been using BIG Asset Management for what seems like an eternity. I have learned two things about BIG over the years
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Special Report
Gaining currency as a risk control
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that worries about currency risk are leading investors to consider factor-based approach when investing in foreign exchange markets
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Special Report
Listed Equity: A public role
New indices and ETFs apply impact investment to liquid equities. But corporate reporting and investor focus are central, according to Liam Kennedy
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Opinion Pieces
Guest viewpoint: Francesco Briganti, EBWI Employee Benefits and Welfare Institute
It is widely known that EIOPA is studying the possibility of a new EU legal framework for a pan-European occupational defined contribution pension regime
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A warm reception for PEPP
In contrast to complaints that Brussels’s legislation burdens the financial sector, the European Commission may be gratified by the positive response to its flagship Capital Markets Union (CMU) programme.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Risk transfer hots up
With interest rates rising, the US pension risk transfer market is expected to grow substantially
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Features
Global Economy: Is growth optimism justified?
Daniel Ben-Ami finds that while there are signs that the global economy might be bouncing back, doubts are being raised by the weakness of the recovery
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Special Report
Listed Equity: The five tests of impact
Andrew Parry argues that five key tests should be applied to public market investments before they can be termed impact investments
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Special Report
Beat the bond benchmarks
Investors may be losing significant returns by failing to apply factor investing to bonds, says Barbara Petitt
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Special ReportGreen growth
High levels of green bond issuance have sparked investor interest and spawned funds and strategies, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Special Report
Beware of taking labels at face value
Sebastian Ceria and Melissa Brown warn that exchange-traded funds with similar labels can generate widely different returns because of the way their portfolios are constructed
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Special Report
All investment impacts
Institutional investors looking at impact strategies should take a holistic view of their portfolio, argues Jane Ambachtsheer
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Special Report
Case Studies: LPP and FRR
Charlotte Moore outlines how two pension funds are using factor-investing strategies
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Special Report
Interview: Amit Bouri - GIIN
Susanna Rust asks Amit Bouri, CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, about the opportunities and risks that come with impact investing’s growing popularity
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Special Report
Top-down versus bottom-up multi-factor approaches
Noël Amenc, Frédéric Ducoulombier, Felix Goltz and Sivagaminathan Sivasubramanian look at the pros and cons of top-down and bottom-up strategies for factor investing
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Features
German pensions: A new not-quite revolution
The current reforms risk repeating some of the mistakes of the Riester plan. Devolving responsibility to social partners for creating new sector schemes risks passing the buck
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Country Report
Pensions In Austria: Funds take real risk
Real assets such as infrastructure are on the radar for Austrian institutional investors, finds Barbara Ottawa
