Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 228
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Country Report
Investment Tax Reform: A simplification gone wrong
The investment industry has successfully lobbied against many new requirements in the investment tax reform law. Barbara Ottawa says it might not be so fortunate in the future
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Asset Class Reports
European pharma under threat
Pharmaceuticals have long been the foundation of Europe’s industrial base. Now the sector must fight back against the threat of US biotech companies
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Special Report
Railways Pension Scheme: World-class transformation
Gail Moss investigates how the UK Railways Pension Scheme transformed its investment strategies to cope with the low-return environment that has followed the global financial crisis
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected European equity funds to macro factors
The data shows the sensitivity of European equity funds to changes in a selection of macroeconomic factors: European default spreads, European term spreads, European interest rates and European inflation.
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Special Report
Pioneers: Better be smart
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that as the strategy becomes more popular, pioneers in the alternative-indexation field are warning investors to avoid being just performance chasers
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Special Report
Origins of the smart beta species
Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas and Nick Motson trace the roots of smart beta that began as a test of the Efficient Market Hypothesis in universities in the 1970s
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Special Report
Index Providers: Benchmark bonanza
The rapid growth and popularity of new of multi-factor smart beta strategies are fuelling the creation of a plethora of indices
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FeaturesBanks and LDI
The rise of liability-driven investments (LDI), pairing cashflow-matching assets with forecast liability streams, has developed in tandem with a broad, overall maturing of the liabilities of the European occupational pension sector
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FeaturesDutch Funding: Facing a painful squeeze
Dutch pension funds’ nose-diving coverage ratios underline just how futile various measure have been in improving funding and minimise rights cuts
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FeaturesUK Local Government Pensions: Choose your partner
After years of debate, concrete details regarding the future of the UK local authority pensions sector are emerging
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Features
PLSA Investment Conference: Industry embraces FCA asset management review
The question of whether the asset management market is working for pension funds and other investors, as the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is asking, was a theme at the UK pension fund association’s conference in Edinburgh.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: A climate culture clash
The Netherlands and the US are both free-market countries with thriving financial industries. But they also are very different and this is an unrecognised risk for large US mutual fund managers.
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you restructuring your asset allocation?
KBC Pensionfonds, National Employment Savings Trust and PME discuss restructuring asset allocations
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Features
The ceiling has no fans
The International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) has proposed potentially far-reaching changes to its asset-ceiling guidance. The proposals have their fair share of critics
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FeaturesCross-Border Pensions: Dutch in first Malta DC set-up
Plegt-Vos is the first Dutch company to relocate a defined contribution plan to Malta.Maarten van Wijk reports
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Industriens Pension
Laila Mortensen, CEO of Denmark’s Industriens Pension, tells IPE about her efforts to improve the fund’s main pension product
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Features
Investment: Convex protection
With record-low corporate spreads and volatile equity markets, is it time to take a closer look at convertible bonds?
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Features
CEE equities – Middle ground promise
David Turner assesses why Central and Eastern European equities are catching the eye of many investors
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Features
Commodity Prices: If only we could blame China
Niels Jensen argues that the strong dollar and rising debt levels among emerging market corporates bear some of responsibility for the slump in global commodity prices
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Features
ESG: Investment in society
Jonathan Williams reports on niche bonds that are growing in prominence as they move into areas previously filled by charities and the government
