Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 338
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IP Asia
Can the family investment office work in Asia?
Peter Guy writes about managing wealth, sustaining family legacy and operating family offices
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IP Asia
The growing importance of inflation hedging in Asia
Joseph Mariathasan examines the attractions of inflation-linked bonds as an asset class.
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IP Asia
Clean technology is gaining ground in Asia
Private equity investment in clean technology has risen in recent times, writes Wing-Gar Cheng
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IP Asia
Time to renew focus on environmental cost in China
Pension fund managers from across the globe are seeking access to China, the world’s second largest economy, to profit from the country’s continued economic growth. Western markets remain volatile and unsettled, while China’s prospects appear increasingly attractive to investors seeking to diversify away from reliance on developed markets, but instead ...
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IP Asia
The chess game of related party transactions
A special relationship may be defined as one between members of a family, or between a director of a company who does business with another company that the same director steers.
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IP Asia
Family Offices - Asia falls way behind in philanthropic giving
Lee Woon Shiu writes about the rising waves of new wealth in Asia.
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Special Report
German Asset Management: In the market for advice
Nina Röhrbein reviews trends in German institutional asset management, noting increasing demand for advice
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Features
Tomorrow’s long-term capitalists
The UK equity market, as Prof John Kay rightly points out in his review ‘UK Markets and Long-term Decision Making’, is no longer majority-owned by UK pension funds and insurers, and has not been for a long time.
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Features
Latin lessons in sovereign default
Emerging market debt managers are brave souls. Take Thomas Brund of Sydinvest, one of the managers featured in this month’s strategy review, who deliberately bought the Ivory Coast before it defaulted. “We were happy to take that default to make sure that we were well-positioned for the upside,” he explains.
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Features
Breaking up is hard to do
In July, Dutch transport pension fund Vervoer sued its former fiduciary manager Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) for a number of breaches of contract, filing a €250m lawsuit in the UK High Court.
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Features
From our perspective: Armour-plating won’t do
Many criticisms of the quantitative impact study consultation of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) on its holistic balance sheet proposal focused on the exercise itself – that it is too complex and opaque, and only large pension funds have the resources to do it.
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Features
Taking the time to assess the risk
The latest consultation paper for the holistic balance sheet (HBS) within the revised IORP Directive has aroused great interest across Europe. The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) gave the pensions industry until 1 August to submit its input on the controversial first quantitative impact study (QIS) for the implementation of the HBS.
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Features
The long haul
Speaking a little over 200 days into his tenure as EFRP secretary general, Matti Leppälä was a busy man. His secretariat was working on its response to the quantitative impact study of EIOPA (the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) on the holistic balance sheet proposal, and he was looking forward to the Brussels close season when the city’s politicians, officials and interest groups head for Europe’s holiday spots.
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Features
Making a virtue out of necessity
While investors have grown weary of new risks, they are unwilling to forego a bargain when they see it, according to Jim McCaughan and Amin Rajan
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Opinion Pieces
Peter Kraneveld, Secretary of the Association for European Retirement Education
“Supervision should be made responsible for pension quality, not just for solvency”
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Interviews
On the Record: Cost concerns
What impact will the EMIR regulation have on your LDI strategy?
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FeaturesCrucial assumptions
Norman Dreger and Andrew Arbour outline why companies with pension obligations in multiple countries should consider carefully which mortality tables to use for accounting valuation
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Features
Steadying the ship
Andrew Waring of the UK Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein how the 2008 financial crisis led to a fiduciary management structure
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Country Report
UK: No more ‘set and forget’
Gill Wadsworth examines current practice among UK pension funds and their trustees in the management of liability risk
