Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 327
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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.
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Incentives to listen
State involvement and issues with majority shareholders are the top corporate governance concerns in the CEE region. But the need to tap markets means companies have a greater incentive to listen to their investors, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Central & Eastern Europe: Confusion reigns
Gail Moss reports on Lithuanian regulatory and legislative turmoil. Far-reaching reform is still needed to strenghten the pension system
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Features
Australia: gateway to Asia?
It is right on Asia’s doorstep, but James Dunn finds that outside the big resource names there is surprisingly little Asia exposure in Australia’s stock market
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Features
Don’t be surprised by inflation
Nicholas Johnson, Berdibek Ahmedov and Ronit Walny argue that now is the time to build a real asset bucket in diversified portfolios
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Features
The inflation trade-off
Hedging against unexpected inflation can be costly. But Karsten Jeske and Anjun Zhou argue that active management can shift the efficient frontier in investors’ favour While inflation and inflation volatility were relatively subdued until the late 1990s, inflation volatility has picked up again in the 2000s. Evidence shows us that more uncertainty about inflation lies ahead.
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Special Report
Assessing the Arctic
Nina Röhrbein questions the oil industry’s claims to have cleaned up its act enough after Deepwater Horizon to be trusted in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging & frontier equities – Tactical and strategic
As slowing growth depresses emerging market valuations, Joseph Mariathasan argues that this might be the time to adjust strategically for the new, long-term growth and risk paradigms
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging & frontier equities – The great melt-up
Capital flows into emerging markets suggest that valuations could be about to end their two-year slumber, argues Michael J Howell
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging & frontier equities – A turn in the cycle
There is a tussle between ‘quality’ and cyclicality among the top strategies in emerging market equities. Martin Steward looks at how three portfolios are shaping up for a possible turn in risk appetite
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging & frontier equities – The private market complement
Mark Mobius outlines why private equity is different in emerging markets from in developed – but also different from your existing public emerging markets exposure
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Interviews
Enjoying a Renaissance
Renaissance Asset Managers (RAM) has had a great run since it was founded as part of Renaissance Group, the Moscow-based financial services firm, in 2003.
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Interviews
Focus and flexibility
One can tell from the name ‘Alternative Investment Group’ that this is a more venerable fund of hedge funds, pre-dating the post-dot-com stampede: it’s not exactly ‘Google-search optimised’.
