Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 374
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Opinion Pieces
Wouter Pelser: CIO Mn Services
“Changes are necessary to ensure the sustainability of private equity investments and commitments by pension funds”
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Features
Scarcity value
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Vincent Ribuot, chief investment officer of UMR Corem, one of France’s few pension funds about working within a life insurance dominated market and the limitations it can cause
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Features
Best practice for the DC payout phase
As DC pension systems grow, it is crucial to ensure scheme members get the best possible value from their savings at the payout stage, finds Gail Moss
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Special Report
Quant: Quant surveyors
As the recent AXA Rosenberg episode revealed, systematic quantitative investment promises the ideal in transparency and integrated risk-management – as long as managers’ corporate governance is equally systematic. Martin Steward reports
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Special Report
Quant: An alternative Aspect
Martin Steward talks to Martin Lueck about why systematic managed futures shone in 2008 while other quantitative strategies sank
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Special Report
Quant: Down but not out
Each crisis delivers useful lessons to the quants world, writes Iain Morse. What did the last one teach us about the optimal conditions and most dangerous risks for model-driven strategies?
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Features
Building Bubbleville?
Emma Cusworth asks if there is enough infrastructure for sale to cope with investor demand – and how to buy it cost-effectively
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Features
The small print on alternatives
Pension schemes spare no expense buying ‘proper advice’ on investment matters – but often neglect to seek it on their investment vehicles. Winston Penhall outlines the legal niceties of private equity and hedge fund investments
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Asset Class Reports
US Equities: Concentration on quality
High quality franchises with a global outlook can deliver returns well ahead of the US market, finds Joseph Mariathasan. But it can be a bumpy ride
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Special Report
Credit: X marks the spot
The hinterland between investment grade and high yield delivers an intriguing risk profile. But Martin Steward also finds that it has been changing rapidly
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Opinion Pieces
Clearer position on derivatives
Powerful forces are pushing both for and against an opt-out for pension funds from central clearing requirements in proposed legislation on market infrastructure, making it anyone’s guess as to the final result. However, the European parliamentary rapporteur’s softening of position must be reasonable grounds for hope.
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IP Asia
Expanding beyond the resource rush
In the cities of Central Asia, a new kind of foreign visitor is beginning to emerge: Sovereign wealth fund officials. Bee Ong assesses what attracts them to places such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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IP Asia
Case study: Investing responsibly in Asia
Alexia Wai-Chun Tye describes the governance turnaround of a Chinese portfolio company
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IP Asia
Best Practices in Currency Execution
Paul Aston describes one practical method of avoiding sub-optimal execution, while also fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities.
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IP Asia
Questioning investors’ capability to manage OTC risk
Institutional investors’ use of over-the-counter derivatives is running ahead of their ability to manage counterparty risks, reports Bee Ong.
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IP Asia
Equal Weight Indexes Attract Attention
Noriyuki Oharazawa presents some alternative options for benchmarking that are finding favour among Asian money managers
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IP Asia
The new goldrush - how to assess agriculture?
Burgeoning demand in emerging markets is accompanied by considerable supply constraints, with good quality arable land shrinking, fresh water becoming a scarcer resource and climate change events creating risks to the production of field crops.
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IP Asia
The rise of smart beta…and how it is changing the game
As a hybrid of passive and active investing, smart beta portfolios are likely to attract a new generation of investors eager to take greater control of their investments in a cost-effective manner. Olivier d’Assier reports
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IP Asia
Japan's tsunami and its impact on hedge funds
Richard Johnston assesses how fund managers were able to respond to the market effects of Japan’s recent disaster situation.
