Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 312
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Features
Satellites in orbit
Christoph Ryter, CEO of the Swiss retail group Migros’ Pensionkasse, explains his fund’s diversification strategy to Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Turkey: Pensions growth ahead
Reform to channel severance payments to the workplace supplementary pensions would mean exponential growth for the Turkish pension sector, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Country Report
Turkey: Growth assets for the future
Pension providers are capitalising on recent liberalisation to launch gold and corporate bond funds, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Country Report
Turkey: Diversification prizes
Private pension asset growth will lead to opportunities for global custodians, according to Iain Morse
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Features
Confusion reigns supreme
The Cypriot bailout may have only been a drop in the ocean compared with the Greek rescue package. But, as Jonathan Williams finds, lack of detail is a major headache for the local provident funds even three months later
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Features
Fallout from Ruslan and Cyprisia
Iain Morse assesses the consequences of the Cyprus bailout for the banking and wider financial services industries
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Features
The coup de grace
Roxane McMeeken met with John Kyriakopoulos, the man whose huge bet on Greek bonds paid off dramatically for the country’s largest pension institution
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Special Report
The Euro-Zone: From imminent catastrophe to exuberant recession
One of our six European chief economists’ views, from BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ William De Vijlder, sums up a theme of this month’s special report: “Depending how one looks at it, a lot or very little has changed in the last nine months.”
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Special Report
The Euro-Zone: ‘Whatever it takes’?
It is almost a year since Mario Draghi’s calming words for the euro-zone, but Daniel Ben-Ami reminds us that they only buy time for much more difficult fundamental reforms
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Special Report
The Euro-Zone: A dangerous mis-diagnosis
Michael Howell argues that austerity is the wrong solution for the euro-zone, and that bad debts need to be socialised or aggressively written-down to free-up seized credit markets
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Features
Caution in the face of opportunity
Despite the growing clamour for funding, pension funds remain cautious about investing in infrastructure. Michael Wilkins analyses some of the barriers holding back potential investors
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FeaturesUnlocking alpha
New statistical techniques and the computing power to put them to work is opening a space for effective factor modelling of hedge funds, writes Robert J Frey
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Special Report
Beyond microfinance
Nina Röhrbein finds evidence for a sea-change in impact investing with more varied products in developed as well as emerging economies
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Interviews
Of orange blood and quieting storms
It has been a stormy four years at ING Investment Management – but the skies are finally starting to clear.
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: Signs of exuberance
More high yield, more security, more hybrids. Joseph Mariathasan surveys the changing European credit markets and asks, are they changing for better or worse?
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: Where credit is due
Joseph Mariathasan finds there is more to credit hedge funds than an inflated fee structure
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: Smuggling in some spread
Martin Steward finds risk-averse managers picking up spread from asset-backed bonds, subordinated financials and ‘rising-star’ high-yield issuers
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Features
The fallacy of CB independence
Central banks are no longer independent of politics, argues Kommer van Trigt, and investors should take that into account
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Features
They want our money
In the Netherlands, our politicians want our money. They’ve got some of it already, in the form of our government bond holdings, and now they want some more.
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Special Report
Top 400 Asset Managers: Active and passive come together
Far from being a threat to traditional active management, smart beta could represent a great opportunity for active managers, argues Noël Amenc
