Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 392
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Features
Here comes the nudge
Saving and a frugal approach to life is easily preached. But as decades of ever-increasing loans and credit card debt have shown, the British have never been good at living within their own means, or putting aside money for a downturn. In fact, figures showed a marked increase in credit ...
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Opinion Pieces
Damian Handzy, chairman and CEO, Investor Analytics
Never mind what went wrong in the financial crisis, what went right?
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Features
Unrewarded risk
Three-quarters of respondents to this month’s Off The Record poll use currency management. Of these, 83.4% did so for currency exposure hedging, 8.3% for returns and 8.3% for both reasons.
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Features
Sweetening the coffee
I meet with my old colleague Ronald, who is now CEO of the pension fund for forklift truck drivers – Pensioenfonds Vorkhef. Ronald and I used to work together at Wasserdicht, before he went to the forklift truck drivers and we often meet for a coffee when I am passing ...
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Special Report
Who governs the agenda?
The UK’s Stewardship Code leaves something to be desired. For example, what exactly is good stewardship? Nina Röhrbein reports
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Interviews
Facing forward, facing outward
Janus was the Roman god of doorways, and by extension of beginnings and endings. Double-faced, he looked both forward and backward, which is why he lent his name to the month of January. Janus Capital Group also takes its name from this god, but rather than facing forward and backward, ...
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Special Report
Currency: Keep an eye on your weighting
The Big Mac index tells you nothing about your need to diet, but might help to value currencies. Matthew Craig looks at the more technical version, ‘PPP’
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Special Report
Currency: Steering for safety
Has the financial crisis changed investor perceptions about safe havens? Christine Senior looks at the question in the FX context
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Special ReportCurrency: Common currency
Portfolio engineering with FX exposures would be much simpler if we could identify its beta. Martin Steward looks at the range of candidates
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FeaturesThe truly balanced portfolio
Martin Steward spoke with the pioneer of alpha/beta separation and ‘risk parity’ about strategic diversified beta portfolios
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Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: Calling in the plumbers
Joseph Mariathasan takes a look at proposals to unblock the pipes of Europe’s repo market
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Asset Class ReportsSovereign Bonds: Macro madness
Emerging market strength versus developed market weakness, European core versus periphery, inflation versus deflation – Joseph Mariathasan finds a market rapidly rediscovering its complexity
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Special Report
Germany: Architect of its own fortune
Make-or-buy decisions are at the root of Gothaer Asset Management’s investment strategy, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Special ReportGerrmany: Walk the talk
Murat Ünal argues that genuine corporate social responsibility should go hand in hand with socially responsible investment. Despite the prevalence of CSR policies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, by contrast, only 10% of institutional investors actively invest along SRI criteria
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Country Report
Spain: Eggs in one basket
Jim Robinson comments on the asset allocation of Spain’s €58bn social security reserve fund
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Features
Challenging beginnings
Liam Kennedy asked Hugo Lasat, CEO of Belgium’s Amonis, about the challenge of running a pension fund after a career in asset management and private banking
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Features
Flourish or flounder?
In this review of the third AIMSE diamonds and duds poll, John Nestor picks out key trends and considers how participants’ opinions have changed
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Features
The high wire act of asset allocation
Diversification is staging a reincarnation, according to Barb McKenzie and Amin Rajan
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Country Report
Portugal: Diversification away from home
Nina Röhrbein reports on a Portuguese pension market that is stagnating as employers struggle with more pressing issues
