Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 345
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IP Asia
The role of LDI in Asia
Joseph Mariathasan examines the opportunities for liability driven investment in Asia where rising wealth is also increasing liabilities for investors.
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IP Asia
Family Office Succession Planning
In Asia, as more families join the ranks of the wealthy, concerns over wealth succession while keeping a sense of family cohesion are also rising in tandem, writes Wing-Gar Cheng.
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China’s pension system set to come of age
Iain Mills explains how a drive in China towards improving returns on pension funds means large-scale opportunities for asset managers.
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IP Asia
Investors keep cautious views on QFII expansion
Iain Mills canvassed the views of several market players to gauge their responses to the development, risks and opportunities on the recent expansion of China’s QFII programme.
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IP Asia
The growing problem of resource constraints
While it is clear that food, water and energy security are crucial to continued development and economic growth, it is easy to underestimate how significantly the availability of any of these key resources affects the availability and cost of the others
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A hot bed for family office activity
Richard C. Wilson looks at Singapore as an access point for wealthy investors seeking a foothold in Asia.
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Real Estate - China Special Situations
Now is the right time to invest in Chinese real estate via special situation strategy, says James Buckley.
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IP Asia
Real Estate - Gems emerging in some Asian markets
Corrections in rentals and capital values in Asian real estate are likely to prevail this year. Still, amid the constraints, some limited pockets of value may be emerging. Wing-Gar Cheng reports.
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IP Asia
Coupons, principles and the virtuous circle
While corporates increasingly have to turn to capital markets for funding, now is the time for investors to push their ESG requirements, writes Joshua Hughes.
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Features
Like father, like son
Whenever my four-year-old boy asks me how old I am and I tell him the truth, I am invariably met with a look of horror that anyone, anywhere, could ever be that old. His incredulous, somewhat disgusted expression is an apt reflection of how I sometimes feel when I read reports on ageing and it dawns on me how most of us are going to be doing a lot more of it in future.
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Features
QE – like pensions – isn’t just an over-60s issue
Here in the UK, the government’s Budget just changed personal tax allowances. Over-65s can earn about £2,500 (€3,055)more than under-65s before being taxed – but from April 2013 that allowance will be frozen until it comes into line with that for under-65s.
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Features
Efficiency drive
A television documentary series in the UK is currently transporting British viewers back to the 1970s, an era remembered for the oil crisis but also for government energy efficiency campaigns.
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Features
From our Perspective: Voting with their feet
Two factors have prompted the French pension fund UMR Corem and the insurer AG2R La Mondiale to seek a jurisdiction outside France for pension activities. One is the onset of Solvency II and the other, closely related, is the lack of an IORP-compliant regime in France for the provision of second-pillar pensions that would help them avoid the structures of Solvency II.
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Features
Initial margin proposal for OTC derivatives
Just as Brussels had seemingly smoothed over its relations with the pension industry by granting a temporary exemption from the EMIR Directive, a new consultation paper has stirred things up. In a joint paper, the European Securities and Markets Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Banking Authority (EBA), announced that they are considering a requirement to “exchange, post or collect” initial margins for bilateral over-the-counter (OTC) derivative trades.
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Features
Not all sovereign debt is created equal
Pension funds are the cure for all ills facing the world – or so politicians would have us believe. This is true in many countries – the UK government is pushing schemes to take on infrastructure projects it cannot or will not pay for.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: RI talk wastes time
The time and money spent on long-term, responsible investing has not been very productive. Don’t get me wrong – we’ve made important progress and our common-sense approach to change was the right (only?) place to start. But if we can learn from experience, we could be making much deeper, faster progress.
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Features
Garbage in, garbage out
If you work in accountancy you will have been far too busy since 2009 with the chaos created by David Tweedie out of the International Accounting Standards Board’s workplan to worry too much about administrative matters over at the board’s Cannon Street headquarters. That means there is a real danger that you could have missed an item on the board’s agenda for 21 March 2012 about operating procedures at the board’s International Financial Reporting Standards Interpretations Committee.
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Opinion Pieces
Jeroen Wilbrink & Jelle Beenen
In the Guest Viewpoint column of IPE March 2012, Kees Cools and Anton van Nunen claimed that the current calculation used in assessing the health of a pension scheme is incorrect. They also claimed it had forced pension schemes to sell ‘cheap’ equities in favour of ‘expensive’ sovereign bonds, and that this selling has depressed prices of equities.
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Features
Keeping tabs on the costs
Pension funds and trustees need to know exactly what different DC pension providers are charging so they can compare them against each other. Gail Moss reports
