Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 371
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Country Report
Switzerland: Industry views
As part of the structural reform of the second pillar, Swiss regulations BVV1 regarding the supervision of occupational pensions and BVV2 concerning occupational pensions, disability and bereavement provision – have been amended. A new regulation, ASV, is also set to take effect from January 2012. As part of the legislative ...
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Switzerland: Converging problems
‘Too rash, too unadvised, too sudden’ is Juliet’s appraisal of Romeo’s declaration of love. This characterises the thinking of member companies of the BVK about proposed recovery measures, writes Barbara Ottawa
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Switzerland: Accounting mortality
Benno Amrosini and Ruben Lombardi assess the application of generational mortality tables, and their impact on the balance sheet and income statement
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Switzerland: Pricing investment risk
Alfred Bühler and Lukas Riesen analyse the costs that arise by taking investment risk and the way they are shared
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Switzerland: Pricing investment risk
Alfred Bühler and Lukas Riesen analyse the costs that arise by taking investment risk and the way they are shared
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Features
The Mediterranean: Some scope for reform
Roxanne McMeeken examines Greece’s economic woes and the impact of pension reforms. There are signs that the private sector will have to play a greater role in future provision
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The Mediterranean: Widening the spectrum
Cypriot pension funds are slowly diversifying away from cash and local markets, writes Roxanne McMeeken
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The Mediterranean: Stuck at the reform impasse
Malta’s pension working group has recommended the development of second pillar pensions. So far there has been no action, writes Stephanie Testaferrata
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The Mediterranean: Go figure
Reeta Paakkinen assesses growing calls for liberalisation to Turkey’s private pension investment regime as interest rates drop to single figures
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The Mediterranean: Go figure
Reeta Paakkinen assesses growing calls for liberalisation to Turkey’s private pension investment regime as interest rates drop to single figures
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Special Report
Quant: 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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Quant: Integrated circuit
What happens when a big, traditional asset management company sets out to diversify its risk and revenue streams by acquiring a smaller team of successful quants? Rob Job, head of business development at quants specialist PanAgora Asset Management, outlines his firm’s model of an operating committee with “business-oriented people” like ...
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Quant: Of arms and the market
High frequency trading not only borrows military technology, it also looks like an arms race on a global liquidity battlefield. Stuart Baden Powell asks if innocent bystanders are getting hurt
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Quant: Man vs Machine
Andrew Kaplan offers his reflections as a fundamental value investor who found himself working at a ‘quant shop’
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Credit: Steady as she goes
Even Europe’s most sophisticated pension funds took a sober view of the greatest credit value opportunity of all time, finds Lynn Strongin-Dodds
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Special ReportCredit: At the cliff edge
An IPE snap poll suggests that even at the bottom of the nastiest bear market and the top of the longest bull market in history, portfolio positioning is far from simple. Martin Steward reports
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Credit: Thinking beyond the benchmark
D William Kohli discusses the need for a broader opportunity set in a rising rate environment
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Special ReportCredit: Yielding products, rising rates
Roy Kuo and Emily Upson run through the characteristics and recent performance of a range of yielding products, offering portfolio solutions for a rising rates environment
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Asset Class Reports
US Equities: 20 heads are better than one
Joseph Mariathasan takes a look at Neuberger Berman’s Flexible All Cap US Equity strategy
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It’s still a man’s world
Nina Röhrbein finds out whether diversity on company boards help stave off crises by bringing fresh thinking and different skills?
