Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 211
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Features
Governance Practices: Between rhetoric and reality
Without behavioural change, recent adaptations in the governance practices of European pension plans merely amount to re-spraying an old car when an entirely new model is needed, according to Sally Bridgeland and Amin Rajan
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Interviews
On the Record: What is the role of equities in your portfolio?
Three pension funds - Inarcassa, Publica and Santander UK Group Pension Scheme Common Fund - discuss the equities balance
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Features
Nordic Asset Allocation: Finding the answers from within
The increased use of internal investment resources by Nordic investors is a challenge for asset managers, according to Albert Løchte Jensen
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FeaturesHow we run our money: HeidelbergCement
Marc Boone of HeidelbergCement explains why the group’s approach to running its many pensions schemes is like sailing a fleet of ships
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Asset Class Reports
Equity Dividends: Default risk changes landscape
The prospect of government defaults should lead pension schemes to review their approach to liability-driven investment
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Features
Value Chain: A price worth paying
A better investment value chain would involve lower short-term profitability for providers in return for greater long-term sustainability of relationships, according to Tim Hodgson
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Features
Hedge Funds: Seeding to enhance returns
Institutional investors face challenging allocation decisions in the current low-yield environment. Mark de Klerk explores how seeding could enhance returns of a hedge fund allocation
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FeaturesESG: Green bonds get G20 boost
The green bond market has had a strong run in the wake of the December 2015 Paris climate-change agreement
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Eight years since the banking system threatened collapse, financial markets are still dominated by central banks. Though macro fundamentals, and geopolitics, still have the capacity to influence flows, interest rates are largely being driven by the central banks’ actions.
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Time to embrace robots?
Robotics and automation are no longer sci-fi, they are a fast-growing and profitable sector, say Johan Van Der Biest and Rudi Van den Eynde
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Features
Focus Group: Too much debt around
Just over half of the respondents to this month’s focus group are restructuring, or planning to restructure, their fixed-income portfolio. Of these, 10 are moving towards a more active management.
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Features
Diary of an Investor: At the high table
Recently, I was invited to join a network of financial academics as a ‘practice adviser’, which means I speak to them regularly about the challenges our pension fund faces and what we are doing in the investment portfolio.
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Features
Risk: Plane disaster lesson for investors
Stephan Lods says analysing decisions that led to a 1977 airline disaster could help investors better understand risk
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Special Report
Church of England: Showing faith in private debt
Gail Moss explains why the Church of England Pensions Board is putting its faith in the US private-debt sector
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator October 2016
The current survey period captured the end of the summer. The number of managers voicing concern about interest rate policy is high. However, the current environment has yet to reflect the alarms of many major investors and the survey results indicate most managers expect little dramatic near-term movement. Whether it is not yet the season for action, or investors expect the status quo to continue, is yet unclear.
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Features
Danish Reform: The 2025 Plan
The government of Denmark – a country ranked, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pensions index, as having the best pension system in the world – is planning to push funded pensions coverage into new territory.
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Peter Kraneveld - International Pensions Adviser
Pension funds are not about politics, but their investment portfolios include political risk
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pension equities ebb
The defined benefit (DB) pension funds of the companies in the S&P 500 index are in deficit. At December 2015, these were $376.6bn (€337bn) underfunded, according to Citigroup’s chief US equity strategist Tobias Levkovich.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A vision for cross-border workers
A former director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP) has proposed a new option for occupational pensions that could help the large number of workers whose careers take them across EU internal borders.
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: TIAA Global Asset Management
TIAA has been on an expansion path in recent years. The organisation is now busy repositioning itself
