Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 296
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: The twin peripheries
After years of turmoil, Europe has two groups of reformed economies at its southern and eastern edges. But Charlotte Moore finds that they are not equally-positioned, and both still include countries with deep problems
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Latvia: Bounceback economy adopts the euro
Latvia is the eighteenth and newest member of the EU and was the fourth CEE state, after Slovenia, Slovakia and Estonia, to join the euro-zone.
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Serbia: Knocking on the EU’s door and attracting ex-EU investment
Serbia is close to opening discussions on EU accession, which has long been a target for the country after the traumatic Yugoslav wars of independence during the 1990s.
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Turkey: Growth, but with deficits and political uncertainty
Analysts and asset managers following Turkish markets say the main issues affecting future Turkish risk rating are Fed ‘tapering’, the development of European economies and domestic politics. Turkey is heading towards local elections in March and presidential elections in July 2014. Both will pave the way for general elections scheduled for the summer of 2015.
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Special ReportCentral & Eastern Europe Investment: Lithuania: Euro membership versus Russia’s gravitational pull
Lithuania is tantalisingly close to qualifying for euro-zone membership in 2015. Inflation, which was responsible for the country failing in its 2007 attempt, has been tamed to within the Maastricht level.
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FeaturesEmerging consumer policies
While the bottom of the pyramid is served by microfinance, providing finance products for the growing educated middle class is increasingly important for some investment managers, finds Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesInsecurities market?
Charlotte Adlung asks whether events such as the attack on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre reveal risks to Africa’s compelling economic, consumer and investment stories
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FeaturesMeeting in the middle
The pressure is growing for pension investors to begin divesting from fossil fuel companies, Nina Röhrbein finds
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InterviewsDrawing a virtuous circle
A number of prominent bank-owned asset managers have been put up for sale at various times since 2009 – a process that has not always been straightforward for the banks or the asset managers. Pioneer Investments’ proposed sale by its parent Unicredit was finally called off in April 2011, which allowed it to focus on a new set of strategic priorities.
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: Sailing into headwinds
Top-down forces have been buffeting emerging markets for some years now, exacerbated by the threat of Fed ‘tapering’ in 2013. But Joseph Mariathasan finds these forces translating into stock-market performance and portfolio strategies in complex, often unexpected ways
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: The dragon awakes
Joseph Mariathasan examines China’s Third Plenum, which some are hailing as a watershed towards a market-led economy
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging market equities – Buyers’ strike?
Cracks may be appearing in the great emerging consumer story. Martin Steward speaks to three managers that have scaled this edifice and offer different perspectives on whether it is time to jump off
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: Wild frontiers
David Turner finds that illiquidity, political and ESG risks all conspire to put a limit on pension fund allocations to the high-growth potential of frontier markets
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FeaturesRetaining interest
Torsten von Bartenwerffer points out that rising rates do not necessarily mean losses in fixed income, and argues for smarter long-only strategies rather than market-timing or long/short approaches
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FeaturesEmerging opportunities
Over three-quarters (16 respondents) of the 20 investors polled for this month’s Focus Group believe the recent underperformance of emerging-market assets has made them more attractive to their fund. According to a UK fund: “Emerging-market performance is still likely to compare favourably with developed-market performance.”
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FeaturesWhat do you want to know?
Diary of an Investor: At Wasserdicht Pension Funds, the investment team generally gets on with the job of running the fund’s money in the way the trustees tell us to.
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: India turns a corner
Joseph Mariathasan finds that political and central bank governance could be at a positive turning point in India, as could corporate governance at company level
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Opinion Pieces
Not ready yet
‘Retirement readiness’ is the catch phrase of 2014 in the US pension industry.
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Features
Variable solutions
Europe is moving slowly and deliberately away from defined benefit pensions to approaches that, if well considered, might prove a sustainable model for workplace retirement provision.
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Features
Haggling with the hedge funds
For this month’s Focus Group Survey, we asked 19 readers about hedge funds.
