Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 307
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Very real problems
Complexity in regulation, heightened demand for efficient liability management, market volatility and the sheer breadth of investment opportunities have created demand for a different type of relationship between asset managers and pension funds, writes Liam Kennedy. How are they meeting this demand? And, with a new generation of ‘modular’ or ...
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Spiralling into control
Mariska van der Westen surveys the Dutch fiduciary management landscape. Pension funds are requiring providers to tailor their services and regaining control of the investment chain, as yesterday’s fashions fall out of favour and old models gain popularity once more
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Investment Solutions: Remedy, not a cure
Alex Koriath and Calum Brunton Smith outline trends in the £50bn UK fiduciary management market
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Investment Solutions: Delegation targets lower risk
Andrew Waring, chief executive of the UK Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about the scheme’s delegated CIO approach
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Interviews
Beyond US sub-prime
If Philip Weingord, co-founder and CEO of Seer Capital Management, isn’t ‘Mr Structured Credit’, then co-founder and CIO Richard d’Albert would be just as good a candidate.
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Still to gather steam
Joseph Mariathasan finds investors ready to buy ABS, but the markets frozen by regulators still fearful of their role in the financial crisis
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: A turning point for European commercial mortgage-backed securities
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) have not experienced the same dramatic rally and tightening of spreads as that seen in the market for residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). One might expect that their relative cheapness would therefore make the case for investment.
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Peripheral euro-zone ABS: a liquidity-driven rally
European asset-backed securities (ABS) markets may not be as attractively priced as they were immediately after the financial crisis, but they can still add useful diversification of credit risk and they may still even offer some value.
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Signs of life return to CLOs
Jennifer Bollen finds a re-birth in Europe’s CLO market, offering better pricing and lower risk – but facing significant obstacles to achieving maturity
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Features
Rating hybrids
Issuance of hybrid capital in Europe surged at the start of the year and is likely to remain elevated in the near term. Taron Wade discusses how such instruments are rated and why new issuers are getting involved
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FeaturesA high-yield lesson from history
Richard Ryan warns investors not to respond to apparently tight spreads in investment-grade bonds by simply stretching for the extra 260 basis points available from high yield
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Features
Smarter outsourcing
The term ‘outsourcing’ first came to light in 1979, and gained popularity in business by the 1990s as companies sought supply-chain efficiency and to concentrate on their core activity. The notion also gained currency in pension fund management.
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Features
Taking the sugar out of the alphabet soup
Jeroen Dijsselbloem has been taking sweeties away from the finance industry again. The Dutch finance minister and Eurogroup president has told pension funds not to expect the same inflation premium on future PPP projects that they enjoyed on the N33 motorway deal.
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Features
The public sin
Last spring, Christian Aid argued that the entry of pension funds into the soft-commodities derivatives market had contributed to recent hikes in food prices.
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Features
End to the first act
Six years since the idea was first raised, the European Commission has finally drawn a curtain on its proposal to apply rigid risk-based solvency requirements – pillar one of Solvency II – on occupational pension funds in IORP II. At least for now, since Michel Barnier, the commissioner for the single market, has made it clear that this is a postponement, not a policy abandonment.
