Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 400
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Country Report
Switzerland: The BVG generation
The BVG/LPP law of 1985 introduced mandatory workplace pensions in Switzerland.Looking back over the last 25 years, IPE questioned five industry figures
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Switzerland: Doing the splits
Nina Röhrbein looks at how Switzerland is dividing up the AHV/AVS Social Security Fund to avoid what has been described as ‘an unhealthy state of affairs’
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Switzerland: The wrong conversion
Barbara Ottawa assesses March’s national referendum on the mandatory conversion rate for Swiss pensions. This political victory for the few might prove detrimental to the many who will now have to pay higher contributions
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Greece: Deep structural problems
Reeta Paakkinen 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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Cyprus: Stepping off the path
Nina Rohrbein looks at the effects of Regulation 2/2010 on the conservative asset allocations of Cypriot pension funds
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Egypt: Towards reform
Egypt is to supplement its €42bn of social security reserves with a new defined contribution system that has been developed in partnership with the World Bank. The Egyptian deputy minister for finance, Dr Mohammed Maait, told Pirkko Juntunen about the planned new system
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Malta: UK QROPS in Malta
As the economic climate stalls national pension reform, UK expatriates can now adminster funds from the locale. Stephanie Testaferrata reports
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Turkey: Sector growth
A new generation of investment funds is emerging in Turkish pensions, whose assets could grow to €60bn in 10 years, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Turkey: Inflows from foundations
Reeta Paakkinen finds mixed views on the expected inflow of assets from some 250 associations and foundations
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: It’s the economy, stupid
Efforts to diversify have for too long assumed that we live in non-cyclical economies, and ignored the mix of economic factors that drive asset-class risk. Lynn Strongin Dodds takes a tour of some alternatives
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Special Report
Portfolio Construction: Allocating risk, allocating time
Martin Steward talks to ex-FRR CIO Jean-Louis Nakamura about Lombard Odier’s volatility-driven allocation and its time-horizon tactical allocation process
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: A question of skill
The hedge fund world is supposed to be about skill. But Martin Steward asks, if you use a fund of funds, what skills are you buying – and whose?
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Portfolio Construction: The horrible handful
Raphael Douady outlines the top five investment risks that every investor in hedge funds should know about
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IP Asia
Seamless segregation for prime finance
Citi’s Prime Finance arm has evolved a new product to ensure better protection of assets for hedge fund strategies. It is a technology platform that combines all the elements of prime finance, administration and custody. The Danish pension fund ATP has been one of the early adopters of the service.
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IP Asia
Issues in bond index construction
Constructing indices for bond markets is not at all as straightforward as it is for equities. Joseph Mariathasan explains the problems of trying to satisfy all the different parties.
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IP Asia
China – could the great growth story all come crashing down?
Bee Ong talks to Satyajit Das on the structural risks that threaten to undermine China’s remarkable run of growth.
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IP Asia
Asia’s markets continue to drive the world
Asia’s economies are leading the way, forcing international investors to reconsider their overall cautious stance towards emerging equities.
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IP Asia
Error margins and their consequences
Portfolio construction is often seen as a science, but there is a critical aspect of the experimental scientific methodology that is usually neglected. And yet it has profound implications for portfolio construction itself.
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IP Asia
Water - China’s greatest challenge
Of the many factors that could block China’s development path, water scarcity, is also one of the most challenging. China’s impending water catastrophe is beginning to unnerve investors.
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IP Asia
Sustainability versus stimulus – which way for China’s banks ?
In the wake of the Asian financial crisis in 1998, a discussion of sustainability in the context of Chinese banks would most likely have referred to a given institution’s likelihood of survival.
