Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 300
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A dwindling band
Finland’s government is looking to improve the regulatory framework for corporate pension funds, according to Reeta Paakkinen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Slow progress on AP
Sweden is making slow but steady progress in its overhaul of the AP buffer funds, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: High salary, high fees
Well-paid Swedes face high charges if they opt out of the ITP pension system in favour of a private plan, finds Rachel Fixsen
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Features
The search for yield
Managers believe that high-yield bonds still offer up plenty of opportunities, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Special Report
Currency Management: Taming the FX volatility dragons
Even before the money set aside to pay back the US’s debts threatened to run out at the end of October
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Features
Currency Management: Awkward guidance
Anthony Harrington listens to currency managers’ frustrations as US dollar certainties melt into fog from the Fed
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Special Report
Currency Management: Keep your FX hedge options
The environment since 2008 makes the case for dynamic hedging.
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Special Report
Currency Management: Below the volatility surface
Lorenzo Naranjo and Carmen Stefanescu discuss the value of extracting foreign exchange rate expectations from FX option prices
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Special Report
Currency Management: Side effects of short duration
The key active currency strategies of carry and momentum come into their own in a rising-interest-rate environment with greater dispersion of interest rate differentials.
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Special Report
Currency Management: Keep calm and carry on?
Consultants hope that a healthy volatility is returning to FX markets to lure back pension funds, writes Angela Henshall. But does the strategy debate still need to move on?
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Eye of the beholder
Joseph Mariathasan looks into the debate around how best to calculate the fundamental value of companies and markets
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Winners and losers
European equities are not only about to benefit from some catch-up in the profitability stakes.
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Value gets volatile
Diverging 2013 performance shows Martin Steward that injecting cyclicality and value has increased volatility and downside
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Special Report
Stress-testing the water
Nina Röhrbein investigates water-related investment opportunities, which are now starting to attract institutional investors
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Features
Commanding heights
Jean-Pierre Couture makes the case for top-down investing in an era of ‘de-globalisation’
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Features
Focus Group: Equities falling out of favour
The average equity allocation in the portfolios of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey is around 36.7%, down from just over 40% 10 years ago.
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Features
Communications go digital
The pensions industry is one of the worst at understanding its customers, which is one reason why two providers have developed innovative online tools, writes Nina Röhrbein
