Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 344
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Seeking emerging rewards
Norway’s Pension Fund Global – one of the largest institutional investors worldwide, with over €425bn in assets – is reconsidering its European exposure. Jonathan Williams looks at the motivation for the changes
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Features
Private assets on public markets
Listed private equity struggles to drum up interest even from private investors. Anthony Harrington asks, does it have any role to play in institutional portfolios?
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Special ReportLiability-Driven Investing: Best foot forward
As short rates collapsed and curves steepened over the past three years, pension funds have become more attuned to forward rates when deciding to de-risk or to take active risk with their LDI portfolios. Martin Steward finds out why
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Special Report
Liability-Driven Investing: Enhancing returns while managing risk
Lynn Strongin Dodds surveys the active management techniques and diverse set of instruments that are now found in
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Escaping the crowd
Overview Supplying the mid-market Joseph Mariathasan finds a changing environment altering how established managers approach the market – which in turn alters the market itself
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: ‘If you can’t meet demand, you’re finished’
Martin Steward meets Silk Invest, feeding Africa one investment at a time
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Pioneering spirit
In frontier markets, private equity is often the first source of investment for business. However, as Joseph Mariathasan reports, there are pitfalls as well as the opportunities
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Harvesting illiquidity premia
Private equity outperforms public equity – not least thanks to its illiquidity premium. But, as Cyril Demaria writes, using public equity as a benchmark for valuation can make it difficult to harvest this benefit
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Funding the baby boomers
One of the brains behind the Swedish pension reform of the late 1990s, Bo Könberg, then the country’s minister for health and social security, has now come up with a way to handle the increasing healthcare costs for the largebaby-boom generation. He spoke with Pirkko Juntunen
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Opinion Pieces
EC backing for VC
Radical changes in opportunities to invest in venture capital (VC) are emerging via the EU, including in Brussels, where the European Parliament is now vetting a draft Regulation on European Venture Capital Funds. The package aims to make it easier for VC funds to raise capital from across the EU.
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IP Asia
Korea’s major public funds are marching in
Stella Kim looks at the new breed of institutional investors in the northeast Asian nation.
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IP Asia
SWFs make long-term commitment to emerging markets
Ramthan Hussain looks at the growing investments of sovereign wealth funds and large fund managers in global emerging markets and in Asia in particular.
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IP Asia
Adding higher-yielding assets to portfolios
Individual investors should be aiming to add higher-yielding assets to their portfolios to boost gains as the global economy continues to stumble along, according to Allianz Global Investors.
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IP Asia
Korea's NPS extends its global reach
Dr. Jun Kwang-Woo, the Chairman of South Korea’s National Pension Service, shares his investment philosophy and strategy with IPA’s Stella Kim
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IP Asia
Putting a spotlight on infrastructure investing
Mitsubishi in 2011 famously teamed up with Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund sponsored by Credit Suisse and General Electric and owner of such trophy assets as the London City Airport
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IP Asia
Capturing the key return drivers
Joseph Mariathasan studies the alternatives to traditional market weighted approaches to global equity investing
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IP Asia
In-sourcing cash management
Keith Power takes a look at a rising trend that is giving in Australia’s pensions industry a “much bigger bang” for its buck.
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IP Asia
Regulatory complexities mask securities lending opportunities
The industry in Asia has fared better through the economic troubles of recent years and offers a source of new business at a time of limited opportunities in developed markets.
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IP Asia
New investment ideas - What’s out there?
Wing-Gar Cheng explores some of the new investment ideas for institutional investors in their quest for yield.
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IP Asia
The Current Asian Hedge Fund Industry
Albourne Partners’ Richard Johnston looks at the increasing competition and challenges facing any small and medium-sized manager.
