Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 337
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Country Report
UK: Bucking the trend
Jonathan Williams reviews the Strathclyde Pension Fund, a defined benefit scheme which is still open to new members as well as net cashflow positive.
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Country Report
UK: Flawed model
Iain Morse reviews the market for custody services for UK pension funds
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: Unintended consequences
The complexity and expense of complying with new collateralisation rules in the OTC market could encourage more risky practices, finds Anthony Harrington
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: The view from ESMA
Pension funds have expressed some alarm at the cost implications of EMIR. Rodrigo Buenaventura, head of markets division, offers ESMA’s perspective
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: Betting on the house
EMIR could push huge volumes of OTC transactions into central clearing houses. But Cécile Sourbes finds that this is as big a challenge as it is an opportunity
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: Connecting the pipes
EMIR will introduce a huge range of new processes into both centrally-cleared and bilateral derivative trades. Iain Morse outlines the work custodians are facing
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Blurring the lines
Many emerging market credits look better than most in the developed world. But Joseph Mariathasan finds that progress towards approaching global sovereign debt as a single asset class has been slow
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Why liquidity matters
Lorenzo Naranjo offers a case study of the Chilean corporate bond market to show how difficult pricing can be in illiquid markets, and tenders a solution
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: APG: Collateral damage
“Of course, we may have to consider to hedge less if derivatives solutions become too risky or too expensive.”
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: PGGM: Keeping the faith
All asset managers running liability-driven mandates on behalf of pension funds fear that the European Market Infrastructure
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IP Asia
Trends in Islamic Finance - Q&A
IPA interviews Khairul Nizam, deputy secretary general of Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI)
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IP Asia
Islamic Asset Management - Malaysia’s Success Story
Islamic finance in Malaysia started as a strategy for greater financial inclusion
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IP Asia
Trends in alpha generation
Albourne Partners’ Richard Johnston examines the search for returns in the industry
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IP Asia
UTI’s overseas offices: Turning a liability into an asset
Joseph Mariathasan looks at Unit Trust of India and its challenges and opportunities beyond the Indian market.
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IP Asia
Commercial real estate may be bottoming out
Japan seems to be finding its way back on the radar screens of international real estate investors after a prolonged period of doldrums on the back of the 2008 financial crisis and the Japan-specific earthquake and nuclear-scare of last year. Goldman Sachs, one of the houses with an early ...
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IP Asia
In conversation with Mark Konyn of Cathay Conning Asset Management
Wing-Gar Cheng interviews Mark Konyn, CEO at Cathay Conning Asset Management about the many lessons he has learned after being in Asia for more than two decades.
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IP Asia
Islamic Asset Management Finds its Footing
Islamic asset management still has plenty of challenges. But in the Middle East and parts of Asia, the industry is going from strength to strength, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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IP Asia
ETFs bring second wind for RQFII
Orlando Bowie explores an option that’s making small strides in the China market.
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IP Asia
Investors stay lukewarm to China property
Policy uncertainly is prompting Chinese real estate investors to seek opportunities elsewhere, Iain Mills reports.
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IP Asia
Three scenarios for the global economy
BlackRock’s Charles Prideaux outlines three scenarios for the global economy
