Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 325
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IP Asia
Japan - Setting priorities for the golden years
Norihisa Tamura, the new chief of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare lists his plans to address the country’s ageing population in an interview with Nenkin Joho.
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IP Asia
'Abenomics' - all set to fire up Japan?
Japanese financial markets started the year on a high note as the newly-formed government led by Shinzo Abe started announcing the measures to support their pre-election pledge of leading the Japanese economy back to growth. Even before coming to power through the general election on 16 December, in a well-orchestrated ...
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IP Asia
Improving Asian corporate governance, one investment at a time
Peter Guy measures the effectiveness of good corporate governance in Asia.
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IP Asia
Hedge funds in Asia - Things are looking better
Albourne Partners’ Richard Johnston reviews returns for the industry in 2012 and finds bright spots in 2013’s outlook
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IP Asia
Mirae Asset - Wisdom in diversification
Stella Kim chats with Mirae Asset Financial Group’s founder and Chairman Park Hyeon-Joo on opportunities in Asia.
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Features
When west goes east
‘Go West’ was not just a 1990s song by the Pet Shop Boys. For decades, this was the goal of people trying to escape from life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Features
Mark-to-market blues
Lucy Prebble’s musical Enron, about the troubled energy company of the same name, famously features a song routine on mark-to-market accounting. Marking pension liabilities to market is a complex issue, fraught not only with market and technical considerations but now, increasingly, with political ones.
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Features
Better the virtuous circle
In theory, insurers, pension funds, endowments and other long-term investors will match their liability stream with long-term investments in the productive economy. So, over several economic cycles, their investments fund their liabilities, but their investments in government debt also help pay for the roads and schools that benefit current and future members and pensioners. Their equity and corporate-bond investments finance company growth and foster employment. Property and infrastructure investments help them attain real, inflation-linked cashflows, while also financing long-term economic expansion.
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Features
Crunch time for UK occupational pensions
Unveiling in his proposals to reinvigorate workplace pensions – a long-standing pledge of the UK’s coalition government that critics noted, until that point, had yet to be addressed – pensions minister Steve Webb argued that continued inaction in the area of occupational schemes was simply not an option.
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Features
Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
For months now, a large and rather vocal contingent of the European pensions industry has been debating the additional costs they might incur if they are subject to solvency capital requirements similar to Solvency II’s pillar one.
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Opinion Pieces
Let’s measure advisers
Investment consultants are so easy to blame. But on ESG matters, they are now doing some very important work – perhaps a result of prodding in earlier years. Now it’s time to reward consultants for faster progress and help them become the powerful facilitator for sustainable investing that they could be, and also help their leaders deal with the immunity to change that they face.
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Features
ETFs: Part of the furniture
Amin Rajan argues that the success story of exchange traded funds is here to stay
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Opinion Pieces
Carl Hitchman, Partner, Hymans Robertson
You have decided that fiduciary management is for you. How then do you go about choosing a suitable manager? While most consultants and managers have been advising on and managing assets for many years, they now overlap in terms of these capabilities, which poses additional challenges. How are fiduciary managers meeting these challenges and structuring themselves to provide clients with the confidence to appoint them?
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Features
Pensions Accounting: Can they fix it?
Stephen Bouvier sets out the problems facing the IFRIC interpretation committee on the treatment of single-A corporate bonds in discounting pension liabilities
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Features
Don’t be afraid to ask questions
Gail Moss finds out the kind of information pension fund trustees should seek from their asset managers since they cannot realistically be expected to understand the many complex products and strategies that are used to manage risk
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FeaturesLiving longer, working longer?
Chris Madsen and Martijn Tans explain their concept of equilibrium retirement age as a tool to help individuals and employers manage longevity risk and plan for retirement
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Features
Different worlds
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Loit Linnupold, responsible for Swedbank’s Estonian pension fundsInfluenced by its linguistic ties with Finland, its financial links to the Baltic and Nordic regions, its Soviet past, its EU and euro membership, illiquid stock market and virtually no public debt, Estonia is a unique place in which to manage a pension portfolio.
