Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 286
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Country Report
The Netherlands: State-guaranteed securitisation
The Dutch government would like the country’s pension funds to support the housing market by investing in mortgage bonds. But details remain sketchy, as Caroline Saunders reports
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The Netherlands: Absolute confusion
A further delay of the long awaited change in financial rules for pension funds is looming, writes Olaf Boschman
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The Netherlands: Can they have their cake and eat it?
In their search for a sustainable pension system, the Dutch are exploring ways to combine DB and DC. Theo Kocken shares his vision with Mariska van der Westen
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The Netherlands: ‘Our first duty is pensions’
Peter Borgdorff tells Liam Kennedy about PFZW’s new contract with PGGM and its unstinting focus on costs
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The Netherlands: A psychologist’s view of pensions
Prospect theory and a psychological analysis of the way scheme participants respond to a variety of pension promises may help to design a pension system better suited to member preferences, according to Thomas van Galen and Noortje van der Vorst
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Features
Unique challenges of climate risk
Climate change risk means the role of the CIO will never be the same again, argues Julian Poulter
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: What is Europe, exactly?
Investing in European equities sounds like a straightforward task. But as investors finally begin to look upon the region more favourably, Joseph Mariathasan finds that ‘investing in Europe’ can mean many different things
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: Transition management
As the market-leading stocks and sectors begin to rotate, Martin Steward finds the top manager positions occupied by those value managers that have maintained pace with their quality peers over the past three years
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Interviews
Building bridges
They do not come any more Australian than AMP Capital. Its parent company started life as a mutual insurer in Sydney in 1849, and is today headquartered in the city’s first skyscraper, which it financed, and which stands on the site of AMP co-founder and pastoralist Thomas Mort’s wool store. Its commanding views of the famous harbour are the backdrop to board and client meetings.
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Features
Cutting a tranche of yield
The current levels of default risk and the ability to tailor exposures to portfolio requirements make CLOs and CDOs potentially attractive for pension funds, writes Geoffrey Randells
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Features
Hot topics
IPE’s overview of the main regulatory and legislative developments affecting workplace pensions in key European countries
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Features
Let’s be clear on solutions
The growing number of services marketed to UK DB pension funds as ‘solutions’ means it is time for clear definitions, believes Magnus Spence
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Special Report
Smart beta: Smart investing or smart trading?
There are limited ways to explain the excess returns that smart beta generates over the market portfolio. Martin Steward uncovers a world of contention over which are the most important
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Special Report
Smart beta: The battle for the middle
Smart beta has succeeded because it can help solve not one but two important problems, writes Emma Cusworth. But investors need to be clear about which problem they are solving
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Smart beta: Lend to those that don't need it
Mike Story offers the case for taking the smart beta concept into the world of bonds
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Smart beta: Neither 'smart' nor 'beta'
John Velis offers the case against taking the smart beta concept into the world of bonds
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Special Report
Smart beta: The nirvana of equity investing?
Low turnover, low fees, repeatable and testable rules and an avoidance of concentration in the biggest stocks make the smart beta idea compelling, concedes Matthew Beddall. But none of that can make a great-looking backtest into reality
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Features
Always the season for corporate governance
Before the start of the 2014 AGM season it’s time to review that infamous voting season – the so-called Shareholder Spring of 2012.
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Features
The Canada factor
If only our pension funds could be more Canadian – which is to say, large, well-governed institutions that are prominent and successful investors. Canada has these in spades, counting among its ranks four of the top 20 biggest global real estate investors and also four of the top 20 infrastructure investors respectively.
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Features
Better governance – to what end?
Before Gordon Gekko launches into his “Greed is good” speech, the CEO of Teldar Paper harangues him as the face of the “short-term profit, slot machine mentality of Wall Street”. But Gekko isn’t like the high-frequency traders or quarterly earnings-obsessed benchmark huggers whom we tar with that brush.
