Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 358
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Interviews
Do you invest in frontier markets?
Has the time finally come for Africa’s ‘frontier markets’? Three pension funds share their views.
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Features
Find the right provider
Gail Moss outlines how pension funds should manage the tender process to ensure they appoint the right providers
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Features
Fears about Solvency II
Pension funds are broadly against Solvency II. Yet the EC is still assessing whether parts of it might apply to pension funds through a new IORP Directive, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Features
Shifting horizons
Timo Loyttyniemi, managing director of Valtion Eläkerahasto (VER), tells Martin Steward why the Finnish buffer fund’s sure touch through the crisis means that the latest change to its targets might just be the last
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Country Report
Central and Eastern Europe: Russia’s hot potato
Iain Morse surveys Russia’s nascent occupational pensions market
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Country Report
Central and Eastern Europe: Domestic pressure
Measures by Iceland’s Central Bank to gradually adjust the krona’s exchange rate are forcing pension funds to invest mainly in domestic krona-denominated assets, reports Iain Morse
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Special Report
Latin America:Waking up from the Chilean nap
At its annual ex-US meeting, the Harris School’s Dean’s International Council heard from a range of officials about how Chile is developing and implementing public policies to reach its development goals. Christopher O’Dea reports
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Special Report
Latin America: Across the Tropic of Capricorn
Chile’s well-funded pension scheme has been a major factor in the country climbing the global economic ladder. And minister of finance, Felipe Larraín Bascuñán, claims that in these tough economic times Chile’s strength will be ‘part of the solution’. Christopher O’Dea spoke to him
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Special Report
Latin America: Long and short south of the border
Improving regulatory and economic environments are helping the Latin American hedge fund industry mature beyond the locally driven investment culture. Joel Kranc reports
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Features
Going global for inflation
In Europe, it seems pricey to buy inflation, whether for liability-hedging or simple wealth preservation. Brendan Maton looks further afield
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Features
An historic opportunity
Regulatory pressure, changes to the market structure and an ongoing de-leveraging process make the financial sector compelling for bondholders, argue Robert Montague and Satish Pulle
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging market equities – ‘Quality’ shines through
Martin Steward finds that a significant change in market leadership after 2009 determines who stays at the top of the emerging equity performance tables – and who falls
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Special Report
Off the starting blocks
Across central and eastern Europe, the extent to which countries have launched themselves off the ESG starting blocks varies greatly. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Special Report
Great expectations
ESG investing is growing in popularity, as Sofie Gravers Jacobsen analyses the results from Kirstein’s investor survey
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Special Report
CO2 on file
Corporates are making patchy progress on the disclosure of their carbon emissions, writes Elisabeth Jeffries. Mandatory disclosure would be a struggle for many
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Interviews
Geneva conventions
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, the 215-year-old Geneva-based banking group, is, of course, a family business. It is just happy coincidence that both the father and brother of Hubert Keller, who co-heads the institutional asset management division, Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) alongside Thierry Lombard, spent parts of their career with the bank: Keller says he never came across it during his years on the sell-side in London, before joining in 2006.
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Interviews
Bringing the New World to the Old
The third quarter of 2011 was not much fun for Investec Asset Management (Investec AM).
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Sinterklaas
Before Christmas, we at Wasserdicht Pension Funds took a call from a research company. They were visiting Dutch pension funds, they said, to carry out a study of attitudes among institutional investors.
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Features
Fear of euro-zone break-up takes hold
Almost half of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey felt that the biggest credible threat to the global economy or financial markets in 2012 was the euro-zone break-up beginning to look inevitable. “The risk of a break-up has consequences impossible to oversee and hedge. It is not unlikely anymore,” said a Dutch fund.
