Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 372
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Top 400: Balancing compliance with business growth
Flexibility is the key to overcoming the threat to growth caused by an abundance of new legislation, argues John Mayr of SimCorp
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Top 400: Clients and distribution
Peter Ellis outlines a four-point business structure for asset managers
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Special ReportTop 400: Active management - tipping the odds in your favour
The question of active versus passive management has long faced investors, argues Roz Amos
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Top 400: Diamonds and duds - what will shine and what will fail?
John Nestor reviews the results of the fourth AIMSE diamonds and duds poll and considers how views have changed
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Top 400: Hedge funds coming of age
The credit crunch is forcing a reckless teenager to become a responsible adult, according to Amin Rajan
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Credit: Anatomy of a crisis
Joseph Mariathasan takes us on a tour of the crash and recovery, asks where bond investors should be looking next – and reminds us that credit is never, ever, a free lunch
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Liam Kennedy: Infrastructure pains
The US pioneered the development of modern fast roads with its interstate highway network in the 1950s and 60s. Yet the August 2007 collapse of the Mississippi Bridge in Minnesota highlighted the decrepit state of some of this infrastructure. And it is not just roads that need to be developed.
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Switzerland: Yes, but...
Swiss occupational pension reform is on schedule but the industry does not agree on how to implement it, reports Barbara Ottawa
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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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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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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 ...
