Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 210
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Special Report
New rules for Spezialfonds: Pandora’s box of opportunities
New rules for Spezialfonds lending could be a huge boost to Germany’s chronically underfunded infrastructure sector, says Thomas Richter
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Asset Class Reports
Valuations: Emerging from the wings
Against a backdrop of lacklustre growth in the developed world, emerging markets are beginning to find favour again with investors
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Special Report
The fall and fall of interest rates
To understand the current low level of interest rates, it is necessary to see it as the culmination of a trend that goes back to the 1980s
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Features
Rethinking political risk
In recent conversations with investors about the prospects for global growth, the focus seemed to be more on the upcoming US election and Brexit than on economic fundamentals. It struck me how musings on political risk can influence an investor’s view on long-term market returns.
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Special Report
Kandlbinder 2016: Spezialfonds inflows top €100bn
Till Entzian surveys Germany’s €1.3trn Spezialfonds market, which saw record inflows over the course of 2015
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Country Report
Portugal: An eye on European clouds
Against a backdrop of a steadily recovering domestic economy, private pension funds in Portugal have maintained stable asset allocations over the past year
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Asset Class Reports
Investment Approaches: Reasons to be cheerful
With 30,000 potential stocks in the global equities universe, picking the right investment approach may be more important than the right manager, argues Joseph Mariathasan
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Special Report
Euro-Zone: Unquantifiable QE
The effects of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme are yet to be quantified, leading some to think of it as the world’s biggest ‘experiment’. Caroline Hay reports
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Special Report
Universal-Investment: Weathering the challenges
Markus Neubauer examines how the clients of the Master-KAG provider Universal-Investment are managing their portfolios
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected global equity funds to macro factors
The chart data shows the sensitivity of the five largest global equity funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: global default spreads; global interest rates; US Dollar Trade Weighted Index and global inflation. IPE and PureGroup selected the largest domestic and cross-border funds registered for sale in the UK, in terms of assets, from the Morningstar database.
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Special Report
US Bonds: The only game in town
The US bond market is benefiting from negative interest rates in Europe and elsewhere. Christopher O’Dea reports
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Special Report
German Asset Management: In the face of headwinds
Never before has the German institutional asset management industry faced headwinds such as those currently confronting it, writes Clemens Schuerhoff
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Special Report
Corporate Bonds: Investment-grade boost
Central bank action in the UK and euro-zone has boosted the investment-grade corporate bond market. Lynn Strongin Dodds examines whether this can continue
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Special Report
High Yield: A risk worth taking
Despite the inherent risks, pension funds are looking to high-yield debt and syndicated loans in their search for above-average returns, as Anthony Harrington explains
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Special Report
Emerging debt attractions
Institutional investors have under-invested in emerging market corporate debt so far, but Joseph Mariathasan finds the asset class’s attractive fundamentals mean this may change soon
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Special Report
UK embraces multi-asset
While multi-asset fixed income strategies have been popular in the UK for some time, European investors are only just beginning to take notice, says Charlotte Moore
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FeaturesFrom Our Perspective: How transparent?
Gerard van Olphen, CEO of APG, contends that the Dutch pension sector is in denial about the need for transparency. The same accusation could be levelled against pension funds in other places.
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Features
Returns: Bonds boost interim results
Returns in the low single-digits were common across the northern European pensions landscape in the first half of 2016, as bonds rallied while equities slumped.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters - Addicted to dumb ideas
With the UK retailer Sports Direct in the news, it is worth recalling what one large investor said only 12 months ago
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Features
Pensions Accounting: Numerology signals
Seventy. Zero. Minus-80. We are probably going to be seeing and hearing a lot about those numbers in the coming weeks. Just as 666 is said to represent The Beast, 70, zero and minus-80 look set to epitomise monster pension deficits and the dawning chasm between IAS 19 scheme deficits and the reality of stewarding a pension scheme.
