Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 391
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Breaking the constraints
Joseph Mariathasan finds that while modern portfolio theory and orthodox strategies can serve investors and fund managers well, there can be greater rewards for those willing to step away from convention
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Features
Cashflow kings
Any long-term investor should be a dividend investor, notes Lynn Strongin Dodds. But the rules of the game are changing
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Special Report
Inflation Assets: The Eternal Coin
In an age when plastic and digital forms are taking over the role of money, a coin that never loses value could be the solution to a lifelong problem, write Malcolm Cooper, Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli
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Special ReportInflation Assets: Timber
Investors recognise the inflation-hedging properties of timberland. Martin Steward asks whether it can be managed for regular inflation-linked cash flows
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Special Report
Inflation Assets: Intricacies of infrastructure
Infrastructure can offer some inflation protection, but pension funds must know what they are doing, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Special Report
Inflation Assets: Infrastructure coming of age
Infrastructure assets are a great fit for pension fund portfolios, argues Danny Latham, but the sector needs more standardised risk and performance measures
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Special Report
Inflation Assets: Safe as houses
Martin Steward looks at some alternative real estate-related cash flows for their inflation-sensitivity and minimal exposure to capital value volatility
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Special ReportInflation Assets: The great divide
Anthony Harrington surveys competing views on the direction of inflation and bond yields
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Sweden Home bias wanes
Pirkko Juntunen finds that competition reasons may sway domestic allocations among life and pension companies
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Norway A concentrated equity market
Norway’s stock exchange, Oslo Børs, comprises of 203 issuers, of which 36 are foreign companies. The market-cap totals almost NOK1.5trn (€186bn) and the exchange saw six new listings in 2010.
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Folketrygdfondet The quiet sibling
Pirkko Juntunen reports on Folketrygdfondet, which manages the Government Pension Fund Norway and the Government Bond Fund within tight regional constraints
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Finland Gradual decline
Reeta Paakkinen outlines the local investment trend in Finnish pension investors’ portfolios
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Special Report
The Nordic Region: Early movers and growing assets
Susanne Jacobson and Linda Stany assess the role smaller investors are playing in the responsible investment area
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: External blacklists dominate ESG
Scandinavian investors have for a long time had a sustainably orientated ethical approach. But Nina Rohrbein finds that this is not playing to the positive
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Hedge fund appetite
Charlotte Bonde Tamm presents insights into hedge fund investments among Nordic investors
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Funds seek to restore equity
Jan Willers outlines some of the key findings of a recent survey on Nordic institutional asset allocation and trends within equities
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Denmark’s planned venture capital fund
When key parties from the Danish pensions industry emerged from their meeting with the economics and business affairs minister Brian Mikkelsen back in August 2010, they declared themselves optimistic that somehow they would work together to put together DKK5bn (€670m) of funding to help small and medium-sized enterprises in their ...
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Country ReportThe Nordic Region: Denmark Home front target
Rachel Fixsen investigates the pressures that Danish pension funds are facing to align their investments in support of the domestic economy
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Features
Bridging the Atlantic
Gail Moss reports on a transatlantic collaboration project between four pension associations to form a joint response on accounting standards proposals
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Features
Twin-track approach
Nina Röhrbein asked Henrik Olejasz Larsen (pictured), CIO of Denmark’s Sampension, about the challenge of offering policies based on contrasting investment strategies
