Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 298
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Interviews
Low fashion, high durability
As Thornburg Investment Management’s fourth employee, Brian McMahon arrived in Santa Fe in 1984 around the same time as the firm acquired a second-hand fax machine from the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Walter Mondale.
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: Nothing to lose but your supply chains
This summer I was lucky enough to spend my holidays travelling around Turkey.
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: De-globalisation
Long-established patterns of global trade have started to change. Martin Steward looks into the reasons why, and the longer-term investment implications
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: Smooth sailing or stormy seas?
Pension funds have long had an interest in global shipping as a way to benefit from global trade. As shipping rebounds, Christopher O’Dea reviews the long-range outlook
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: As strong as the weakest link
Shorter supply chains may make it easier to monitor and manage risk, but Nina Röhrbein warns that they do not make the risk disappear
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: From ukuleles to kidneys
Thirty years after the invention of 3D printing, the technology has brought mass customisation to consumers and huge growth opportunities to industrials, writes Jennifer Bollen
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: The industrial renaissance
Labour, energy and technology revolutions are re-shaping globalisation. And while the initial gains appear to be in the US, Henk Grootveld sees potential across the developed world
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Special Report
Outlook 2014: The coming US dollar drought
If the US imports less energy and exports more goods, its current account deficit could continue to shrink. Charlotte Moore asks what this means for economies reliant on US dollar liquidity
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Bottom-up on the up
Changes in market behaviour have created an alpha-rich environment that is great for stockpickers and dangerous for market-timers, write Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Small is beautiful, again
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward note that smaller hedge funds are enjoying significant new inflows for the first time since the financial crisis. Where is the money coming from?
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Not such black boxes
David Turner looks at how transparency has improved in the hedge fund world, and what pension funds are doing to adapt to all the new information
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: “We ask investors what they like”
After almost 10 years of talking to hedge fund managers, this is a first. Erich Schlaikjer, co-founder of the Cambridge, UK-based systematic managed futures specialist Cantab Capital, is showing me what his firm’s trading and research systems can do.
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Fit for use
Craig Baker sets out six areas for improvement in the institutional fund of hedge funds model
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Features
Corporate bonds go electronic
Amid the ongoing debate about the best market structure for cash credit, Rupert Warmington draws attention to the rapid expansion of electronic trading
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Features
Focus Group: Resistant to change?
Less than half of the 19 investors polled for this month’s Off The Record survey (eight respondents) allocate to hedge fund strategies.
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Features
More buckets
Last month, for the first time, we experimented with a new approach to our monthly international strategy meeting. Video conferencing.
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Opinion Pieces
Matthew Kiernan, Inflection Point Capital Man. & Paul Clements-Hunt, The Blended Capital Group:“Investors who fail to develop systematically aware investment processes risk commercial extinction”
There is no shortage of high-wattage brainpower directed to the promotion of longer-term finance and investing.
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Opinion Pieces
A phoney war for KID
A phoney war is in operation. No guns are being fired. No bombs falling. But there a number of indications of an arms race over the matter of a simple two page information document known as KID – and its possible extension to cover the occupational pension sector.
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Opinion Pieces
Too big to fail?
Are US asset management firms ‘too big to fail’? In other words, do they represent systemic risks similar to those posed by the largest banks, so much that they must be subject to ‘enhanced’ supervision?
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Asset Class Reports
Hedge Funds: Not just a lion at the gate
Liongate Capital Management understood from day one that hedge fund investing was more what you know than who you know. Ten years later, Martin Steward reports on how this became the institutional mainstream – and where it is going next
