Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 323
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: So many stocks, so little time
Joseph Mariathasan considers the resource demands inherent in making the compelling global small-cap opportunity manageable
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Features
Lies, damned lies and valuations
The Barclays UK Government Inflation-Linked Bond index experienced a 13 standard-deviation event on 10 January.
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Features
Implementing the impossible
The boxer, Muhammad Ali, once said: “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”
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Features
Risk ahead!
“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war.” General Stanley McChrystal is supposed to have said this in 2010 when commenting on a PowerPoint slide outlining the risks of the US army’s engagement in Afghanistan.
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Features
Sweden’s buffer funds come out swinging
Future-proofing the Swedish pension system is a key item on the political agenda, following the conclusion of a review of the AP buffer funds commissioned by the department for finance and one by parliament.
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Features
Pensions Accounting: IAS19 in 2013
The priorities facing defined-benefit plan sponsors who report under IAS19 during 2013 split neatly between short-term volatility concerns and the longer-term challenge of implementing IASB’s recent revisions to the standard, say two leading consultants who spoke to IPE about their priorities for 2013.
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Opinion Pieces
Heinz Rudolph, Lead pension specialist, World Bank
Between 1997 and 2008, 11 countries in central and eastern Europe (CEE) implemented multi-pillar pension reforms, which involved the creation of mandatory funded schemes. These reforms were motivated by a foreseeable reduction in future pension contributions and extended benefit payments as a result of falling birth rates and people living longer.
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Features
The middle way
Gail Moss outlines how public sector pension entities can get the best out of the procurement process
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Features
Which way to go?
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Eddie Dahlberg, who is responsible for Volvo’s pledge to provide pensions
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Country Report
Ireland: Comparative easing
The government’s 2013 budget appears to have taken on board pensions industry concerns over tax relief on pension contributions and the pensions levy, writes Christine Senior
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Country Report
Ireland: For better or for worse
Iain Morse outlines how the NPRF has fared over the last year
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Features
Contagious junk?
Speculation that European downgrades could squeeze EM corporate bond issuers is overblown, finds Martin Steward
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FeaturesThe correlation myth
Patrick Burke d’Orey argues that factor analysis shows that correlations are not at all-time highs – and that even in 2008 there was wide dispersion in pair-wise factor correlations
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Special Report
Split over atoms
Nina Röhrbein finds few pension funds have specific policies on nuclear, and reports differing views among funds and managers
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Punching above their weight
Martin Steward takes a tour of some world-beating European companies with four leading small-caps managers
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Features
Relationship issues
The demand from pension funds for greater transparency from their custodians is growing more urgent, finds Iain Morse
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Early retirement? No thanks!
One day during our Christmas break, my wife was horrified to read in the daily paper that retirement ages are going up. Jeanette is a French national, even though she has lived most of her life outside of France. ‘There won’t be enough jobs for the young people and the elderly will be forced to work until they drop,’ she said.
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Features
Focus Group: Political considerations
Two-thirds of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey have, over the past five years, taken action in their investments to try to adapt to a preponderance of political risk in financial markets.
