Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 256
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Special Report
Cyber Security in Asset Management
In an increasingly mobile, cloud-based digital world, the old model of thick walls around a centralised information keep is out of date
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Country Report
Finnish funds take international outlook
Finnish pension funds are internationalising their portfolios in an effort to help offset domestic woes
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Special Report
Technology: University Venture Capital
In its narrowest form, university venture capital has raised a couple of billion dollars a year, mostly in the US and UK
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Country Report
Finland's pension mutuals: New governance rules
The recent scandal at Keva ushered in new governance rules for Finnish pensions mutuals, but many funds are already one step ahead of the game
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Features
Private equity: Filling the gap
Substantial fees and the plethora of private equity funds available mean that all but the largest institutional investors need external advice and support
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Features
Nordic countries: Pension risk takers
The Nordic countries are today home to some of the most innovative pension funds, which one observer believes is in part due to an “engineering mentality”
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FeaturesFlying the long-term flag
Rather like attitudes to motherhood and apple pie, there is no serious or fundamental opposition from institutional investors to the principle of long-term strategies like infrastructure or real economy lending
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Features
Class Action Lawsuits: Petrobras - A case for care
Pension funds exposed to troubled Petrobras that have lost money on their investment will have to weigh their options carefully before deciding which legal route to take
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Features
Dutch pressured over stranded assets
Dutch pension funds are under increasing pressure to reconsider their investments in fossil fuels
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Features
Swiss troubled by negative 10-year bond yields
Institutional investors in Switzerland are far from happy their government has issued the first 10-year bond in Europe with a negative rate
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Can investors be part of the solution to Brazil's crises?
Investors in Brazil have been largerly absent from the separate crises over water and corruption shaking the country
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Features
Accounting Matters: Fair valuing the future
Bad accounting breeds bad policies. Or so it would seem
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your approach to private markets?
This month three pension funds share their views on investing in private markets
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Features
CEE Pensions: Fight for survival
The policies of a number of Central and Eastern European governments towards funded first pillar pensions have left some funds wondering about their future
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Features
Pensions Tracking: On the right track
There are innovative plans to help pan-European workers make sense of their cross-border retirement savings
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Alecta
Per Frennberg, chief investment officer at Alecta, describes his team’s emphasis on investment analysis to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Special Report
Financial Services Technology: Tech transformer
Technology is transforming financial services across the board
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Features
Mezzanine Finance: Mezzanine’s brief hour in the sun
Mezzanine lenders stepped into the breach during the darkest days of the credit crunch, and were paid handsomely for their trouble
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Features
ESG: ELTIF - Waiting in the wings
Will European Long-Term Investment Fund live up to the hopes of the socially responsible investment community?
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Astellon Capital Partners
Responding to a reporter’s question about what he most feared could blow his government off-course, the British prime minister Harold Macmillan is supposed to have said: “Events, dear boy, events.”
