Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 313
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Special Report
Risk & Portfolio Construction: The only way is up?
Jennifer Bollen looks into what rising bond yields would mean for risk-parity portfolios
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: ‘All equities are black boxes’
In January 2011 the PNO Media Pension Fund terminated its US and European equity enhanced-index mandates with Barclays Global Investors and brought the assets in-house. However, it did not go passive – or at least, not in the sense in which most of us would understand the term.
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Time to diversify
Investors diversify across asset classes, risk factors and investment styles. Maha Khan Phillips asks if trading time horizon brings anything extra to the process
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Always in style
Four or five equity-investing ‘styles’ appear to be systematically rewarded over time. Maha Khan Phillips asks if it is possible to use them to diversify a long-only portfolio
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Risk & Portfolio Construction: Taming alpha, harnessing beta
Rachel Fixsen looks at how a more sophisticated understanding of hedge fund risks is changing the way investors integrate these strategies into their portfolios
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Top 400 Asset Managers: Global assets back on the rise
Total AUM of top 400 managers = €39.2trn (2012 = €36.3trn; 2011 = €36.2trn). Increase in AUM of 8% over 2012. BlackRock is the largest manager (€2.9trn) and accounts for 7.4% of overall assets. Top 100 managers account for 83.7% of the assets (€32.8trn).
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Opinion Pieces
A long-term dream
Philippe Maystadt, former Belgian finance minister and European Investment Bank (EIB) president, recently fleshed out the European Commission’s policy paper to promote long-term investment.
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Opinion Pieces
Fink’s nod to Australia
Are mandatory saving accounts coming to the US? It looks possible after BlackRock chairman and CEO, Laurence Fink, said they should be part of a comprehensive solution to the retirement funding crisis.
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Features
Condemning ‘beautiful’ Dutch pensions
The Netherlands’ Social Economic Council (SER) has proposed a ‘macro-stable’ discount rate for pension liabilities. This new discount rate would apply to real, conditional pensions – a new type of pension contract favored by the SER that would replace existing nominal guaranteed pension rights.
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Features
Manager selection in a volatile world
Amin Rajan and Roland Meerdter find that short-term performance is the primary motivation behind the selection of managers and funds
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A lone rider?
Is the closure of Swedish energy company Vattenfall’s pension foundation a one-off or the shape of things to come? Nina Röhrbein reports
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Under one roof
By bringing asset management in-house, Skandia aims to bring new products to the market, says Pirkko Juntunen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Funds go global
Despite a positive 2012, the country’s pension funds are allocating more investments beyond the troubled borders of the euro-zone as they seek to improve returns, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Nordic Region: Corporates flying high
Corporate pension funds have consistently outperformed others in the pensions industry, and they want more freedom to set contributions, Pasi Strömberg tells Reeta Paakkinen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: What one hand taketh…
Changes to discount rates will favour Norwegian pension sponsors, writes Rachel Fixsen. Yet the introduction of dynamic mortality tables will require an increase in reserves
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Country Report
France: Paving the way for responsible investment
The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites has undergone a radical strategy reshape following the 2010 pension reform and volatile equity markets in 2011. And 2013 will be action-packed, writes Cécile Sourbes
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Country Report
France: Agirc-Arrco reserves will be saved
Patrick Poizat, board member of GIE Agirc-Arrco and of Agirc federation, tells Alain Lémoine of his optimism about the future of the fund following reforms in March
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Country Report
France: Déjà vu for Agirc-Arrco
The March 2013 agreement on Agirc-Arrco retirement reform is a relief for asset managers, and could staunch years of withdrawals by 2014, says Alain Lémoine
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Country Report
France: Adapting to difficult times
Flexibility to move in and out of assets is important for investors navigating choppy economic waters. Gail Moss reports
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France: The search for yield
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Image & Finance’s 12th annual research covering the institutional market
