Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 236
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Special Report
Time to become more active?
Passive investment has been more popular than active over the past five years with investors focused on cost and value. But recent market trends could favour a return to active management
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Country ReportArmenia: A compromise, for now
Armenians were given a one-off chance to withdraw money from pension funds following a constitutional challenge but the system will become mandatory in 2017
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Special Report
Non-traditional Investment: Quant versus traditional
Quantitative fund management will become more important in global small-cap and global emerging markets, writes Joseph Mariathasan, as detailed analysis of thousands of stocks for traditional management strategies would require masssive resources
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Special Report
Active management: Patience brings rewards
Recent research on active share that suggests a long-term approach is the best way to achieve sustainable outperformance
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Features
From Our Perspective: COP21 - what next?
The momentum and excitement in Paris last month at the COP21 UN Conference on Climate Change marks a turning point in the perception of climate change as an economic risk, reinforcing a growing mainstream consensus that institutional investors need to do two things.
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Features
European Insurance & Occupational Pensions Authority Conference: Framing the DC debate
Gathering in Frankfurt for the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority’s (EIOPA) annual conference, delegates could be forgiven for assuming the address by chairman Gabriel Bernardino would reflect on his previous successes, and avoid any controversial new proposals.
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Analysis
Analysis: Stendevad delivers portfolio redesign
With the raft of changes ATP has been making to its investment strategy now almost complete, it is clear the Danish pension fund has been at pains to take in the big picture – as well as the minutiae of the changed financial world it finds itself in.
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Features
Pensions Accounting: Spot the discount rate
When the US telecoms giant AT&T announced last year that it planned to discount the interest component of its defined-benefit (DB) pension liability using a spot rate, it unleashed a storm of interest among US listed companies. At a stroke, companies stand to wipe billions of dollars off their pension provision costs.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Followers will make the money flow
“Investment is the most often repeated word in IMF meetings, UN meetings, [the] G20 meeting, IIF meetings,” Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD said at the organisation’s recent long-term investing conference in Paris
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Features
Interview: Bernhard Wiesner - A life in pensions
Bernhard Wiesner, who has retired as head of pensions at Bosch, tells Barbara Ottawa about how he remains positive on the social partner model
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Features
Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Free speech and self-loathing
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former secretary general of NATO and prime minister of Denmark, gave the opening address at IPE’s 2015 Conference. Speaking in the shadow of the terrorist attacks in Paris, his topic was A World in Flames: New Geopolitical Balances
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Interviews
On the Record: Do you believe active management adds value?
Three leading pension funds - UK’s Environmental Agency Pension Fund, Germany’s KZVK-VKPB, and Switzerland’s Publica - share their views on active management
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FeaturesCross-border Commuting: So near and yet so far
Gail Moss outlines a new project to aid pensions communication for the 100,000 daily cross-border commuters in the Limburg trinational region
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Features
EIOPA: A Dutch view on stress tests
Agnes Joseph, Niels Kortleve, Sibylle Reichert, Peter Vlaar and Siert Vos examine the relevance of EIOPA’s stress testing regime and argue the case for alternative methods of determining a fund’s resilience
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FeaturesHow we run our money: The Kingfisher Pension Scheme
The Kingfisher Pension Scheme’s head of pensions, Dermot Courtier, and pension investment manager, Matt Fuller, talk about the fund’s path to self-sufficiency
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Features
Research: Risk focus has shifted from the past to the future
In the final article on their new study, Pascal Blanque and Amin Rajan argue that tail-risk hedges have limited value since QE has changed the nature of risk
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Features
Age spectre haunts Japan
Abenomics is faring in the battle to bring Japan’s ecomomy out of the doldrums to cope with a rapidly ageing population
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Features
Brazil’s trapped potential
Brazil’s huge market and competitive global companies hold out promise for investors but its economic recovery is being fettered by a political impasse
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Features
Make cash pay
Cash holders do not have to settle for low yields from traditional cash management vehicles. Enhanced cash vehicles offer higher yields
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: RBC Global Asset Management
We ask Damon Williams, co-chief executive officer of RBC Global Asset Management, what sets his company apart from other asset managers
