Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 366
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Ugly duckling no more
Emerging market debt is a fast-maturing asset class that is converging with the global bond universe. But Joseph Mariathasan finds managers struggling to break out of top-down country-risk constraints
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Perfect timing?
Peter Marber re-explores averaging strategies for entry into emerging markets
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Special Report
Securities Services: Fund administrators gear up for change
In a nascent market where there is everything to play for, private equity fund administrators are gearing up for a host of regulatory and market changes, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Special Report
Securities Services: Big is becoming beautiful
The traditional, independent boutique hedge fund administrator will feel the pressure of progressive onshoring and regulation, reports Iain Morse
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Special Report
Securities Services: Security threat
Iain Morse reports on the avalanche of regulation heading the way of securities lending
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Special Report
Securities Services: Light me up
The ‘trade at’ rule sparks heated debate about ‘best price’ concepts and the road that equity market trading reforms should take, reports Richard Hemming
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Special Report
Securities Services: Sourcing global equity liquidity
Equity market fragmentation is a significant challenge to executing large blocks of stock with minimal market impact, writes Edward Pennings. At the same time, it provides an opportunity for those with a firm grasp on navigating this new landscape
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Special Report
Securities Services: The lowest ebb
Greece’s financial services markets are at rock bottom. Iain Morse assesses the domestic custody market in the face of current tribulations
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Opinion Pieces
Plenty on the horizon
Even without fears of a double-dip recession, the wake of the 2008 crisis is keeping European Commission financial law drafters working hard at the legislative coalface. And that was before European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, warned, early in August, that the sovereign debt crisis was spreading beyond the periphery ...
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Opinion Pieces
Bonds defy downgrade
US pension funds are reassessing their fixed income investment policies after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the US rating from AAA, despite the fact that the new AA+ rating did not force them immediately to sell Treasury bonds.
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IP Asia
Investors drive the expansion of securities servicing
There is a wave of change sweeping across the global custody market, according to two of Asia’s top practitioners.
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IP Asia
Widening the scope for Islamic investment
Institutional asset owners customarily receive a surfeit of investment ideas and proposals, but Islamic institutions experience quite the opposite—a dearth of suitable assets. Bee Ong reports on the available investment options and where demand is coming from.
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IP Asia
The long view on climate investments
Investments in new energy-efficient technologies and business practices that help reduce the effects of climate change have not been significantly undermined by the global economic crisis, says the Asian head of the IFC.
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IP Asia
Can PE deliver for Asian funds?
Major institutional asset owners, including Asia’s large public pensions such as Korea’s National Pension Service and China’s National Social Security Fund, intend to augment their exposure to alternatives including private equity. Bee Ong assesses how they might achieve this.
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IP Asia
Quant: It’s all in the numbers
Anthony Harrington asks what went wrong for quants during the crisis, but also questions the received wisdom that ‘all quants are the same’
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IP Asia
Climate Change: Collaborative Effort Needed
Multiple stresses in Asia will be compounded further due to climate change. It is likely that climate change will impinge on sustainable development of most developing countries of Asia.
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IP Asia
A playground for event–driven managers
Martin Steward finds an unusual corporate event cycle teeing up opportunities for event-driven hedge funds – but not necessarily classic merger arbitrage or distressed debt
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IP Asia
Paying heed to inflation risk
Stephanie Schwartz talks to New York-based fund manager Jenny Yiu about her pure play portfolio focused on inflation-linked bonds.
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IP Asia
Alpha in Asian long short funds
Looking back over the years from 2007 to 2010 is a good “stress test” to see how Asian long short hedge funds managed during the last year of the bull market, the correction and subsequent recovery. Albourne’s Richard Johnston reports
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IP Asia
Plans for Broader, Deeper Insurance Market
Individual components of the 12th Five-year plan are steadily emerging, the latest of which relates to the insurance industry. Iain Mills reports
