Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 330
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Special Report
Risk Managed Equities: Theory and practice
Low-volatility portfolios seem, empirically, to outperform high-volatility portfolios, and there are plenty of theories to explain why. But Lynn Strongin Dodds finds practitioners tinkering with the pure expression of this insight because lowering volatility risk results in other risks popping up in its place
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Risk Managed Equities: More than just excess return
If the low-volatility ‘anomaly’ did not exist, would pension funds still have risk-management uses for these strategies? Rachel Fixsen investigates
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Risk Managed Equities: Unmasking the wizards
AQR Capital Management tries to direct its clients’ attention away from the supposed insights of market ‘wizards’ and back on to what makes markets tick. Martin Steward caught up with some of its senior leadership in its new London office
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Risk Managed Equities: A better mousetrap
A pioneer of the alternative indexing world weighs in with a minimum-variance product. Martin Steward talks to Rob Arnott about his latest innovation
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Risk Managed Equities: CAPE crusaders
Barclays has launched three indices based on Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price-earnings ratio for sectors. Martin Steward met the Yale academic to discuss what they bring to the growing world of ‘smart beta’
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Risk Managed Equities: Winning by not losing
Rich Dell and Phil Edwards explore the nature of low-volatility offerings and the challenge created by the proliferation of idiosyncratic strategies
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Risk Managed Equities: Low-vol equities: mind the gap
Stephen Miles looks at the pitfalls between a smart idea and its smart execution
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Risk Managed Equities: Betting on low-vol stocks
Anthony Harrington looks at the debate between minimum variance strategists and risk-efficiency strategists. Is one solution merely a staging post on route to the other?
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IP Asia
Risk management for insurance companies
Wing-Gar Cheng looks at the greater needs of insurance companies in today’s market.
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IP Asia
A conversation with NTUC Income CIO Peter Heng
Bee-Lin Ang chats with Peter Heng, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, NTUC Income.
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Qantas Super seeks yields adequate for retirement
Keith Power looks at one of Australia’s largest corporate superannuation funds.
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Looming changes in the superannuation industry
Brendan Swift examines the legislative changes that may help boost retirement incomes
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A model superannuation funds should strive for
Keith Power looks at HOSTPLUS, one of Australia’s largest supers with about 1 million members
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IP Asia
Asia and Emerging Markets in Global Equity portfolios
Joseph Mariathasan explores the risk and returns in allocating assets into emerging markets.
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A watershed year for the occupational pension system
Looking back on 2012, the year has been even more of a watershed year for the Japanese occupational pension system than was already foreseen in the past
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The complexity of running a family office in Asia
Bee-Lin Ang explores the many issues and concerns that family offices face when managing wealth
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Asia is a long-term investment for global pension funds
Wing-Gar Cheng reports from the PPI Asian Pension Fund Roundtable in Jakarta
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‘Wealth destroyer’ plans a family office
The financial crisis had been a wake-up call to formalise and to really figure out how we want to run the personal side of things, in wealth management, wealth preservation and transfer
