Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 331
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IP Asia
Introducing the Asian REIT-Index
A new analytical framework for Asian REITs aims to improve corporate governance best practice across the region. Patrick Lecomte explains.
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Alternative investments: The trend towards tailored portfolios
Institutions are increasingly seeking alternative opportunities and diversifying away from traditional asset classes, Bee-Lin Ang writes about this emerging trend.
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How can families institutionalise their investment approach?
Successful family businesses that create large amounts of cash find themselves with the new profession of wealth manager, but with limited time and sometimes interest, to dedicate to it.
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IP Asia
Integrating ESG issues with executive pay
By linking executive pay to transparent and measurable ESG factors, companies can show they take ESG issues seriously. Nina Röhrbein reports on work being done in this area.
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IP Asia
Proper rewards for loyalty
The key driver of investment decision making should not be immediate investment returns, but long term viability and profitability.
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IP Asia
Private equity in China: Fulfilling its promise?
Returns appear to be improving. But is everything else moving in the right direction? Peter Guy finds out.
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Features
Fighting talk
Pension funds see remuneration from two different but uniquely intertwined perspectives. As institutional investors, they are under increasing pressure to hold companies, including banks, to account over executive pay.
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Features
Money doesn’t grow on trees
Every child has heard similar words. You want that delicious-looking cake? A new toy? “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”
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Features
Voluntary reform?
Last month the Dutch caretaker government introduced a new set of rules for pension funds designed to avert dramatic benefit cuts and contribution hikes. The so-called ‘September package’ represents a typical Dutch compromise – it offers something for everyone, everything for no-one, and nothing for free.
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Features
In the laboratory
It’s a good rule in life to learn from the mistakes of others if you can. So what could the board of a brand new pension fund learn from others to make sure its internal design and external relationships are as robust as possible?
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Features
Taking the sting out of the tendering process
Tendering for a new investment consultant – or indeed, tendering to fill any soon-to-be-vacant position – using the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) can cause the more than 100 local authority pension funds in the UK a lot of pain, according to Nicola Mark, head of the £2bn (€2.4bn) Norfolk Pension Fund.
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Features
Keeping pace with the paper chase
Investors and market players would do well to do one thing when new financial reforms come into force – adapt quickly. A case in point is the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) currently being drafted in Brussels.
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Features
Timelines: Forewarned is forearmed
On 2 October, when the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) submitted its technical standards to the European Commission on the conduct of the quantitative exercise for the revised IORP Directive, a number of concerns were raised within the pensions industry.
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Opinion Pieces
Can PE save the world?
When private equity players come together to discuss how to be more responsible, that is noteworthy.
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Features
Pensions Accounting: If at first you don’t succeed...
It was only a matter of time before the issues left unresolved by the International Accounting Standards Board’s 2006 pensions accounting project landed on the desk of the International Financial Reporting Standards interpretations committee.
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Features
Trusted adviser 2.0
In this third and final article in the current series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan conclude that, as markets have become disconnected from fundamental value drivers, the role of trusted adviser is gaining traction.
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Interviews
On the Record: Fees take a backseat in manager selection
What approach do you take when selecting managers?
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Features
Portfolio impact
Gail Moss outlines the concept of impact investing and how it relates to mission-based investing, which is often used in the foundation sector
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Features
Shock factor
Liam Kennedy spoke with Theo Kocken and Kerrin Rosenberg about pensions, behavioural finance and a new definition of fairness
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Features
From ugly duckling to swan
Michael Kjeller of KPA Pension tells Nina Röhrbein about his fund’s transformation
