Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 303
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IP Asia
Risk of a carbon bubble
According to Carbon Tracker, markets are mispricing risk by valuing companies as if all their reserves will be fully exploited
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IP Asia
Islamic Financing - Positioned for growth, Insha'Allah
Bee-Lin Ang looks at the significant challenges facing the Islamic financing industry in Asia.
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IP Asia
Inflation-linked bonds set to make a come-back
With the government planning to issue ¥300bn ($3bn) worth of notes in October after a five year absence from the primary market
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IP Asia
Japan's GPIF mulls PE and infrastructure moves
Takahiro Mitani, Chairman at Government Pension Investment Fund discusses about greater diversification of assets in an interview with Nenkin Joho.
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IP Asia
Insurers and liability management
Cameron Dueck asks insurance executives in Asia how they are navigating through volatility with a long-term focus.
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Features
Buyout now while stocks last
Pension longevity transfer, whether through full insurance buyouts, bulk annuities or longevity swaps, is still largely a UK business.
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Features
The EM story is evolving, not ending
This month will mark five years since the Lehman bankruptcy, years that have seen some changes in pension fund attitudes to risk. Counterparty risk now matters. There is ‘tail risk’.
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Features
Reform saga continues
The long and winding tale of Dutch pension reform entered a new chapter in July, when the council of ministers signed off on a consultation document outlining changes to Dutch pension legislation, in particular the financial assessment framework (FTK).
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Features
Webb’s policy challenges
The achievement may seem modest, but September 2013 marks 40 months since Steve Webb became pensions minister, a junior post within the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, but one with far-reaching influence over the design, structure and, by extension, asset allocation of occupational pensions in UK.
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Features
IORP: what to expect this autumn
The calm comes before the storm. Almost two months of holiday have just gone by, and the European Commission is back this month with one major task – make a legislative proposal for the revised IORP Directive.
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Features
Buyout market in flux, but outlook rosy
Over the summer, the UK de-risking market has seen significant deal activity, as well as a number of important changes. Lucida, closed to new business since late 2012, was sold to rival Legal & General, while Goldman Sachs announced its intention to sell Rothesay Life, which itself acquired Paternoster less ...
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Features
Top managers run more than €2.5trn in assets
The UK’s leading 100 asset managers now run more than €2.5trn in institutional assets, according to IPE’s annual ranking.
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Opinion Pieces
PE’s planetary alignment
‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ describes gender differences in cognition. Having attended three major private equity events – PEI Responsible Investment Forum (for ESG-friendly PE), Coller Institute Private Equity 2013 Symposium (for mainstream PE) and PEI Operating Partners Forum 2013 (for portfolio companies) – we propose transposing ...
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Features
Conceptually challenged?
Back in April, the International Accounting Standards Board was debating the content of its discussion paper on the International Financial Reporting Standards conceptual framework.
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Opinion Pieces
Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO, Investment Company Institute
“Global funds have more work to do as part of this retirement savings evolution”
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Features
UK joins the race
A new tax-transparent fund, launched this summer, puts the UK on the map for pension pooling. Gail Moss explains
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Features
Clwyd: Cultivating the difference
Nina Roehrbein speaks with Philip Latham, pension fund manager at Clwyd Pension Fund, about its unusual asset allocation strategy
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Features
More than meets the eye
The usual selling point for ETFs is that they are cheap, but that has rarely held for institutional investors. Anthony Harrington finds less obvious, but arguably more compelling, advantages
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Features
Nurturing Europe’s mid-market
Taron Wade and Alexandra Dimitrijevic look into efforts to expand Germany’s Schuldschein debt private-placement market to the rest of Europe
