Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 314
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Special Report
Longevity: Living longer, costing more
In 1985, for every person turning 65, there were 10 new people of working age. According to estimates from the UN, by 2040, for every person turning 65, there will be less than one additional person in the 20-64 years age groupage
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Special ReportLongevity: The great age of divestment
Martin Steward looks at evidence for the demographic ‘asset meltdown’ theory, some investment strategy implications – and the major caveats attached to putting too much store in it
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Longevity: The second fiscal crisis
Unchallenged, the projected costs of ageing in Europe are truly terrifying. But Douglas Renwick and Eugene Chiam point to potentially significant long-term mitigation that can – and has – come from reforms
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Longevity: Back to first principles
Andrew Hunt and David Blake present a new, general procedure for constructing mortality models that unbundles the age, period and cohort dimensions in the data, resulting in better understanding of historic changes in mortality and more reliable forecasts of future mortality rates
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Longevity: A healthier way to de-risk
Trustees could secure big savings by de-risking through medically-underwritten bulk purchase annuities, argues Debbie Harrison. That could mean the difference between affordability and unaffordability
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Longevity: Re-distributing the risks
Bernhard Brunner makes the case for government involvement to kick-start capital-market longevity-hedging instruments
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Longevity: Time to get the tradesmen in
With buyout deals and pipelines buoyant as more DB schemes close to future accrual and sponsors bite the cost bullet, Pádraig Floyd asks whether the short trend for ‘DIY’ has already run its course
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Bridging the gap
Martin Steward meets the co-founders of OceanBridge Partners, whose flexible new model aims to maximise the potential of private equity investing
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Is mega back?
With the high-yield market on fire and household names being plucked from public markets, Joseph Mariathasan asks if we are heading back to the heady days of the 2006 ‘mega’ buyout
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Features
Grappling with private equity
Of the 24 respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey that hold private equity investments, 15 were happy with the number of individual fund commitments that their fund had in its portfolio. Of these, four felt they needed to re-balance the strategies. A Danish fund commented: “Investment costs have ...
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IP Asia
China: Growth in an air pocket
China’s economic slowdown helps accelerate rebalancing but institutional uncertainties remain, writes Iain Mills.
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IP Asia
Are Gold bears too bullish about the US?
Bee-Lin Ang asks if the price of gold is a gauge of economic performance.
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IP Asia
Helping to make a bigger difference
For many families, philanthropy is an integral dimension in passing on family values
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IP Asia
Banyan Tree's accidental hotelier
Bee-Lin Ang talks to a tycoon with a capitalist mind and a socialist heart on managing wealth and building a legacy.
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IP Asia
Standing up to MNC misbehaviour
Two decades ago, foreign multi-national companies (MNCs) were sought after by investors in the region and generally speaking, their shares always traded at a premium. Before seeking these companies out, global asset allocators in the large foreign funds would start by looking for countries that showed the “correct fundamentals”. Such ...
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IP Asia
Cbus - A strategy to mitigate risks
Brendan Swift discusses with Cbus’ Kristian Fok on the superannuation fund’s competitive advantage.
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IP Asia
International opportunities for family philanthropy
As many Asian families continue to prosper, notwithstanding the difficult economic climate, so families continue to turn to philanthropy and how better to advance their philanthropic objectives
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IP Asia
Another financial scandal brewing?
The use of off-shore vehicles to channel investments by Japanese pension funds unveiled not only the vulnerability to domiciles with light regulations
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IP Asia
A taste of bling in Japan
Wing-Gar Cheng looks at Abenomics and its impact in a chat with Nikko Asset Management.
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IP Asia
Robust pension fund performance in Japan
by Nenkin Joho - Pension funds are responding increasingly to currency volatility.
