Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 322
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IP Asia
New trends in portfolio gatekeeping
FundQuest acts as a gatekeeper for the bank’s clients screening and monitoring approved products and funds. Post global financial crisis, the number of institutions demanding these kinds of services has grown alongside high net-worth individuals and family offices.
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IP Asia
Back office services - resistance is futile
Outsource service providers unanimously describe changes that will entirely alter how the finance and asset management industries plan, process and run their businesses. By Peter Guy
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IP Asia
Accelerating the evolution of climate finance
In March, the board members of the UN Green Climate Fund gathered in Berlin for the third meeting since their appointment, tasked with planning for the mobilisation by 2020 of $100bn per year in long-term financing for climate action in developing countries.
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IP Asia
Mutual Recognition reshapes the fund landscape
Catherine Simmons, State Street’s Head of Regulatory, Industry and Government Affairs in Asia Pacific, discusses the opportunities and challenges.
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IP Asia
Is Asia overly confident?
“I would not assume that a crisis would not happen. That was the assumption in Europe and that was the assumption in the US.”
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Features
Cross-border lessons
The 2010 comedy film Rien à Déclarer focused on the rivalry between a pair of customs officers either side of the pre-Schengen Franco-Belgian frontier.
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Features
War, what is it good for?
In the UK we’ve had quantitative easing for so long now that one of the bonds that the Bank of England started buying in August 2009 is about to mature. When that happens, on 7 March, the Bank says that it will re-invest the £6.6bn in more bonds. Is that monetary loosening? My brain hurts just thinking about it.
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Features
Read the small print
The lawsuits now being filed against asset managers for various transgressions in the wake of the financial crisis have been a long time in coming, but it would seem things are in full swing now.
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Features
Not too hot, not too cold
“The Union has today set itself a new strategic goal for the next decade: to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.”
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Features
Lessons learned from the Henderson debacle
The out-of-court settlement in Janaury between a group of 23 investors and Henderson Global Investors over the management of an ill-fated infrastructure fund is a salutary reminder of the difficulty investors face when trying to claim redress after investments turn sour.
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Opinion Pieces
Put the bee back in beta
What is the price of a bee? And more generally, where does the extinction of bee populations – and with bees much of agriculture as we know it – fit into discounted cash flow and other investment/risk decision-making tools?
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Features
Pensions Accounting: Discount-rate saga runs
Back in January, this column posed a simple question: Can they fix it? The ‘it’ was the so-called six-A discount rate question.
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Opinion Pieces
Rhodri Preece, director of capital markets policy, CFA Institute
Does dark trading hurt market quality? It is a question that has vexed policymakers for some time, and has attracted renewed focus recently following certain exchange initiatives to establish non-displayed trading pools for retail orders. Understanding the relationship between dark liquidity and market quality has become central to the debate on market structure as authorities around the world consider revisions to their respective regulatory frameworks. Measures to support fair competition between displayed and non-displayed trading venues should be the focus of those efforts.
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Interviews
On the Record: Cheap and cheerful or approach with caution?
What is your European equities strategy?
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Features
Regulating Europe
Gail Moss reviews pension regulation and law changes under discussion in seven European countries
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Country Report
Belgium: Cross-border barriers
Cécile Sourbes asks what lessons can be learned from the failure of UMR to create an IORP domiciled in Belgium
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Country Report
Belgium: Thirst for higher yields
Belgian pension schemes are looking ahead to another year of improving funding ratios as they diversify fixed income portfolios, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country Report
The Netherlands: The integral concept survives
Anton van Nunen assesses recent discussions on fiduciary mandates and argues against splitting risk from asset management
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Features
Yielding results
Ultra-low bond yields and high dividend yields suggest low-risk investors should consider equity income funds. Joseph Mariathasan looks at the options
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Features
Banks back in favour
Fund managers are overweight banking stocks for the first time since 2007. But Maha Khan Phillips finds that not everyone is convinced that now is the time to buy
