Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 319
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Doctor in the house?
Lynn Strongin Dodds outlines the importance of quality medical underwriting and ongoing assessment of life expectancies in the traded life policy world
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Special Report
Disarming pension funds
Nina Röhrbein finds investors staring down the barrel of a gun when it comes to their investments in controversial weapons
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Interviews
Degrees of freedom
It has been a busy Q1 for Artisan Partners. At the time of writing, the 19-year-old firm was on the brink of its IPO. Aiming to raise almost $330m with which to clear its loans, buy back shares and reward its pre-IPO partners, the event feels like the foundation for the firm’s next stage of growth.
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Features
Innovate to survive
As business becomes thinner and specialisation becomes crucial, Iain Morse reports on the Norwegian custody market
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Features
Currency war? What war?
Two-thirds of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey do not believe there was a genuine ‘currency war’ on, with about half of these believing it to be all media hype.
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Features
Article 47.3: Devil in the detail
Unintended consequences are coming to light with respect to the EMIR framework, which aims to push all trading in OTC derivatives through central clearing.
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Features
The end of fees as we know them
Taking to the stage on the first day of the National Association of Pension Funds Investment Conference in early March, Paul Marsh of the London Business School unwittingly set the tone for the rest of the event.
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Features
Britain and Europe
The UK has squandered its fiscal strength relative to the rest of Europe, argues Holger Schmieding – and talk of a ‘Brexit’ will only make things worse
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Opinion Pieces
Anti-SII bloc victory?
The bloc of EU member states opposed to the inclusion of Solvency II-inspired provisions in the planned IORP II Directive, appear to be on the road to victory.
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Features
Indexation ambition
Nina Röhrbein interviews Bernard Walschots, CIO of Rabobank’s Dutch pension fund
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Regime change
Uncertainty is unsettling the Dutch pension fund industry as a new pension framework takes shape, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Is this what our system needs?
Dutch pension reforms are constantly shortsighted. To be sustainable the system needs vision and decisiveness, argues Corine Hoekstra
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: It’s not easy to get right
Cees Harm van den Berg and Gerard Roelofs find that the UFR has led to heightened awareness of interest rate risk and many funds have changed their hedging policy.
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Mixed views on risk factors
Allocation based on risk factors rather than traditional asset categories is gaining traction, says Miranda Schoutsen, but some investors are wondering whether the old ways are not better
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Sky-high success
André de Vos spoke with Toine van der Stee of Blue Sky Group, the manager of the KLM pension funds
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: The long game
The static long-term assumptions of past consulting methodologies are no longer fit for purpose. But Brendan Maton finds that developing new approaches is a tough intellectual and practical challenge
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: Talking heads
IPE put some questions to pension consultants and fiduciary managers across Europe. Here is a selection of their views
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: Filling the M&A gap
The high margins available from corporate activities appear to be a thing of the past, but Gerry O’Kane finds consultants benefiting instead from the increasing complexity of the pensions landscape
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: How competent are consultants?
Trustees would never hire an unqualified actuary or lawyer. But Roger Brown warns that closer scrutiny might reveal that they are taking advice from an unqualified investment consultant
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IP Asia
Restoring investor trust in the financial markets
Glenn Doggett and Alexander Flatscher discuss what’s important for Asia
