Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 255
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Special Report
Risk parity strategies making inroads in DC
UK pension schemes are increasingly attracted to risk parity funds. Are trustees and members have enough information to make informed decisions?
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Features
Hard to explain
The European Central Bank’s QE programme is taking its toll on pension funds as healthy returns are unable to keep pace with liabilities
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Country ReportFrance's Agirc-Arrco: Reform of last resort
French public finance magistrates have stressed the urgency of reforms to France’s main private sector supplementary regime, Agirc-Arrco
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Special ReportThe Technology Sector: Potential in the exponential
The cost of computer processing power has decreased exponentially over recent decades, a trend we are all familiar with when we compare the clunky IBM PCs of the 1980s or 90s with today’s smartphones
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Country Report
Denmark: Weathering the storm
Despite the blustery short-term economic environment, Danish pension funds have set their sights firmly on the horizon
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Country Report
Agirc-Arrco: Opening closed shops
Restructuring France’s supplementary pension schemes will see greater centralised management and the increased use of passive strategies
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Special Report
Technology: The Third Industrial Revolution
A number of fast-moving technological trends seem to be spreading the importance of ‘tech’ beyond IT and into every corner of our lives and our economy
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Country Report
Denmark: Ahead of the rest
Rachel Fixsen speaks with one of the leaders of a new research centre that aims to keep Denmark as the leading pension provider
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Special Report
The Internet of Things
The technology mega trends of ‘Big Data’, robots and drones, sensors, wireless communications and machine intelligence all come together in the industrial theme that is the ‘Internet of Things’
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Country Report
Sweden: Rolling with the punches
Earlier this year, the Swedish central bank decided to push repo rates into negative territory. We look at how the country’s pension funds have adapted their portfolios
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Autres temps, autres mœurs
France’s institutional investors, like most across Europe, are struggling to adapt to the low-interest environment
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: A growth story revisited
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Indefi’s fourteenth annual research report analysing institutional investment trends in France
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Special Report
Technology: European Venture Hubs
As London gets pushed into fourth place by Beijing as a venture capital centre, we ask what is required to create Silicon Valley-type hubs in Europe
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Country Report
Sweden's buffer funds: Healthy despite uncertainty
Sweden’s national buffer funds, despite their uncertain future, are faring quite well
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Country Report
France's Novi fund targets liquidity
Gilles Pouzin outlines the concept behind the Novi fund, the latest institutional investment vehicle offering equity and loans to smaller French enterprises
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Special Report
Technology: Late-Stage Fundraising
There has been a sudden jump in the number of technology-based companies that have raised equity privately at $1bn-plus valuations, often with no sign of an IPO to come
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Country Report
Sweden's Pensions Working Group unlikely to reach conclusions any time soon
Pirkko Juntunen asks when the Pensions Working Group will finally come to any conclusions. The answer seems to be ‘nobody knows, but not any time soon’
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Country Report
Amundi & EDF: Adopting a dual approach
Amundi and EDF have combined forces with the announcement of a new asset management company
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Special Report
Technology: Biotech
Biotech firms are reaching tipping points in science, business models and sales that should consolidate their position as the leading sub-sector in healthcare
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Country Report
Sweden: AP7 triumphs
CIO Richard Gröttheim downplays his fund’s recent stellar performance, explaining that conviction in strategy should always trump short-term gain
