Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 302
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German Asset Management: One step at a time
Nina Roehrbein outlines institutional investors’ asset allocation intentions and behaviour
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German Asset Management: Defiant growth in the face of hostile legislation
Germany’s Spezialfonds have survived the latest legislative challenge of incorporation within the legislation implementing AIFMD, writes Till Entzian. They remain institutional investors’ preferred vehicle with record inflows in 2012 and AUM that should soon cross the €1trn mark
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German Asset Management: Stepping out in new shoes
Nina Roehrbein asked Michael Fuss about the latest reorganisation of Deutsche Bank’s asset management activities
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Real Assets: The real risk from real assets
What is a ‘real asset’? And why would an investor want it?
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Real Assets: Sheltering under a roof
Property is limited in its ability to hedge inflation but it can certainly play a role. Rachel Fixsen and Lynn Strongin Dodds report on the diverse strategies to consider
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Real Assets: Pricing powers
Jennifer Bollen explores claims that infrastructure can offset inflation and asks if infrastructure portfolios can be optimised to protect against inflation
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Real Assets: Seeing the forest for the trees
A slow housing market during the financial crisis certainly hacked away some of timber’s appeal. But Joel Kranc finds that the long-term potential remains strong
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Real Assets: Performing in the real world
How well have direct investments in real assets performed over the long term? Martijn Cremers outlines the latest research, and challenges some assumptions about inflation protection and diversification
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Real Assets: A raw deal from raw materials?
Poor performance is causing some investors to question why they got involved in commodities. But Martin Steward finds that now could be just the wrong time to sell
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Real Assets: Staying tuned
Martin Steward found a different take on recent investor mood music around the asset class and a robust case for allocation when he spoke to one of the largest commodities managers
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Real Assets: The ultimate real asset?
Daniel Ben-Ami considers the fundamentals behind gold and what they mean for its role as a portfolio allocation
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Real Assets: Price to earnings
Helen Fowler looks at how an equity portfolio could be optimsed for inflation sensitivity
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Real Assets: Understanding inflation shocks
Kurt Winkelmann and Raghu Suryanarayanan model asset returns under inflation shocks as a first step to designing genuinely inflation-sensitive portfolios – itself the first step towards broader macro-sensitive portfolios
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Real Assets: No real growth
In the aftermath of QE, inflation-plus multi-asset funds seemed like an idea whose time had come. Charlotte Moore asks why they failed to catch on
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Features
The inconstant constant
Regulation threatens the existence of Constant Net Asset Value money market funds. David Turner asks if investors will miss them
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Mixed evidence on financialisation
Lorenzo Naranjo and Carmen Stefanescu note that commodity futures volatility has been rising since the era of ‘financialisation’ – but also that the correlation with equity market volatility long pre-dates this period
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Carbon investment: worth the risk?
Gyorgy Dallos argues that the financial risks associated with investing in fossil-fuel companies will increase as they extract in more hazardous places and stricter carbon constraints are enforced
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Are loyalty shares a game-changer?
Nina Roehrbein asked Mirjam Staub-Bisang about sustainable investment in Switzerland
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Transparency under the spotlight
The mandatory reporting regime of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment has caused controversy. But advocates say it will shine a light on ESG integration. Mark Nicholls reports
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Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: A wealth of opportunity
Martin Steward speaks with Stratton Street Capital, which believes a sovereign’s wealth determines the performance of its bond and currency markets
