Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 321
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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
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IP Asia
China’s securities reforms may hit a bump
Orlando Bowie on China’s securities reforms under the new political leadership.
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IP Asia
Japan’s recovering investment climate
Expectations regarding “Abenomics” have sent the stock markets soaring. Pension funds have increasingly been reporting cumulative returns of over 10% thus far in the fiscal year, and the atmosphere among pension investors has brightened considerably for the first time in quite some years.
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IP Asia
Promising prospects for public-private partnerships
Wing-Gar Cheng explores the opportunities for public-private partnerships in health and senior care in Asia.
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IP Asia
China - An emerging hedge fund opportunity
Albourne Partners’ Richard Johnston assesses the financial reforms in China.
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IP Asia
A sober investment approach
Bee-Lin Ang speaks with the chief of a Singapore wine company and explores his investment beliefs and guiding principles.
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IP Asia
UniSuper - Valuation is everything
Brendan Swift looks at UniSuper’s guiding principle as market volatility undercuts valuations.
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IP Asia
Getting up to speed with the rest of Asia
Iain Mills looks at how Chinese institutional investors are following their Asian counterparts in financing economic rebalancing.
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IP Asia
MySuper and the role of custodians
Bee-Lin Ang reports about how regulations and technology are changing the role of custodians in Australia.
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IP Asia
Skirting a currency war
Joseph Mariathasan looks at how Asia’s economies can withstand the growing volatility in the currency markets.
