Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 324
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘Control is a key to success’
Rachel Fixsen talks to Tapiola Pension CIO Hanna Hiidenpalo about integrating climate risk management into the insurer’s portfolio
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘Climate risk is only one among many factors’
Nina Röhrbein finds APG grappling with data-quality problems and the challenge of being a mega-fund with a sustainability objective
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘It’s precisely the “how” that matters’
ERAFP tells Rachel Fixsen how it applies its climate risk criteria across its whole portfolio
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Growth in the global greenhouse
Perhaps no industry is so exposed to weather and climate change as agriculture. Mike Scott outlines the potential impact and the resulting investment demands
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: A rising tide
There is plenty of water in the world – but useful water gets scarcer by the day. Mike Scott finds that managing the supply in world with a warming climate could be a compelling and diverse investment opportunity
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Sins of emission
The bottom has fallen out of it for now, but Elisabeth Jeffries finds the EU Emissions Trading Scheme becoming the model for others around the world
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Features
AIFMD: the rush to regulate
With its mid-year implementation deadline looming, Giuseppe Rumi and Giorgio Tosetti update us on the state of play for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Hungry, growing, focused
In a world obsessed with the safe havens of multi-national mega-cap cash machines, Joseph Mariathasan revisits the case for smaller companies
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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
