Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 308
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Features
My way, not the highway
Jeroen Dijsselbloem was never going to have an easy time as the Dutch minister of finance, thanks to the country’s slowing economic growth and the need for cuts to bring deficit spending under the European Union’s 3% threshold.
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Features
Directing the directive
Cécile Sourbès asks Matti Leppälä, secretary-general and chief executive of PensionsEurope, to discuss the next steps for the revised IORP Directive
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Features
Attention moves to portability
Eight years have passed since the European Commission introduced its first proposals on a Pension Portability Directive, and yet, so far, there has been no sign of this coming to fruition. Back in 2005, it introduced a proposal for a directive aiming to improve the portability of supplementary pension rights.
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Opinion Pieces
Whose risk counts?
Paul Woolley – a successful academic economist, regulator and fund manager – gave sustainability investors a direct challenge at the recent Responsible Investor conference.
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Features
Accounting: But what does it mean?
The April meeting of the International Accounting Standards Board set the scene for yet another rushed consideration of draft chapters for inclusion in the conceptual framework discussion paper. The document is to be published in July.
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Opinion Pieces
OTPP looks east
The CAD129.5bn (€96.4bn) Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) believes it is one of the best managed pension funds in the world. To remain that way, it is looking east for growth and is adjusting to the new demographic trends, but not abandoning its defined benefit (DB) model.
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Opinion Pieces
Alexander Ineichen, Founder of Ineichen Research and Management
“Confusing uncertainty with volatility or VaR is like mistaking a tiger for a pussycat. It’s irresponsible and dangerous”
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Features
Defining the trustee chair
The rise of LDI, market turbulence and regulatory challenges have all helped to change the role of the trustee chair, according to Gail Moss
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Features
Keep it simple, stupid
Nina Röhrbein speaks to Peter Hansson, CEO of Swedish pension fund, Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa, about how how he keeps it simple
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Not a smooth ride
Ian Morse asks Patrick Groenendijk, CIO of Vervoer about his views on fiduciary management in the light of his fund’s experiences with Goldman Sachs Asset Management
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Special Report
Food for thought for animal welfare
The horse-meat scandal has alerted investors to the importance of animal welfare in the supply chain, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Special Report
With pensions in its sights
Mark Nicholls asesses the UK’s Green Investment Bank plans to target the institutional investment community, and pension funds in particular
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Asset Class Reports
Structured Credit: Wrong to buy?
Europe’s key RMBS markets remain subdued. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports on whether the lack of activity is just about bank stresses – or a more fundamental economic malaise
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Features
The case for the investment book of record
It is essential for investment decisions to be based on accurate and complete information, but obtaining that in the form of an investment book of record is easier for some asset managers than others, according to John Mayr
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Features
Is history quietly repeating itself?
With the system already as heavily leveraged as it was in 2007, markets are hanging on every word from Ben Bernanke. Dan James thinks this only adds to the feeling of déjà vu
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Features
Focus Group: Service providers or trusted advisers?
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that all 28 respondents to this month’s Off The Record poll thought the client relations skills of the overall asset management industry were merely good to mediocre – but when it came to the manager they have known best or longest, almost all rated them good to excellent.
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Features
The solutions business
‘We’re in the solutions business!’ These were the words I was greeted with at the Worldwide Institutional Investing Conference inLondon recently. A fiduciary manager was presenting his vision for pension funds, and all kinds of jargon were thrown out – integral fiduciary management, partial mandate outsourcing, delegated CIOs and segregated diversified growth fund mandates.
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Features
If it looks like a duck
Hybrid corporate bonds are taking off as investors scramble for yield. But Martin Steward wonders if the hybdridity balance is shifting against investors
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Country Report
Italy: Still waiting
Nina Roehrbein notes potential interest in emerging markets and declining exposure to domestic government debt among Italy’s occupational pension funds
