Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 404
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Special Report
Liabilities & Matching Strategies: All the King’s men
Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal untangles the issues for pension funds that find themselves creditors of a sovereign in default
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Special Report
Sovereign cycles: a return to the norm?
The absence of a sovereign debt crisis between 2003 and 2008 was part of the historical cycle, not a new paradigm, writes Scott B MacDonald. Bond-biased investors should prepare for the inevitable return of the painful part of that cycle
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Features
Multi-asset inflation funds
There are several multi-asset funds mandated to match or beat inflation. Martin Steward asks whether they are anything more than re-packaged absolute return products
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Special Report
ESG risk in a portfolio context
Nina Röhrbein reports on research into the implications that a ESG strategy can have upon asset allocation
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Features
How do you hedge?
This month’s Off The Record survey looks at pension fund liability hedging. Some 20% of funds responding to the survey had a current level of hedging relative to liabilities of over 100%, the highest being 115%. Over 25% of respondents had a level of 50-99%, while 29% gave their level ...
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IP Asia
How useful are performance measurement tools?
Richard Newell talks to John Fu, Senior Product Manager at J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, about the specific approaches institutional clients are adopting with regards to performance measurement.
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The importance of program trading
The evolution of portfolio construction has moved forward with processes and technologies designed to enhance implementation across global markets. Richard Surrency explains importance of program trading.
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Performance measurement - devil in the detail
As institutions streamline their operations in a bid to reduce costs, one area where pension funds have been unable to cut back is in performance measurement. Francis Braeckevelt explains how performance measurement services have evolved. It is difficult today for any asset manager or owner to get by without ...
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IP Asia
The Long-Short Score Card: 2007 to 2009
How did hedge fund managers handle the peaks and troughs of one of the toughest market environments most of them will have experienced. Richard Johnston, of Albourne Partners in Hong Kong, assesses the numbers.
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Modern Portfolio Theory – captivating the unwary
What cannot be measured easily is often not managed at all, even if it is much more important.
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IP Asia
Advancing the sustainability agenda
In Asia, there are many challenges involved in the effort to establish sustainability standards as business and investment norms.
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The Sharia alternative
by Bee Ong - Speculative they may not be, but the Sharia funds industry looks to be spawning its own hedge funds.
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Islamic Finance – a glossary of terms
Bai Bithaman Ajil A contract for deferred payment on the sale of goods. A bank buys goods requested by the client. The bank sells the goods to the client at cost plus profit. They client settles payment in instalments within a predetermined period or in lump sum. Gharar Lit The ...
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IP Asia
Adjusting to custom and practice
by Bee Ong - In the sharia investment marketplace, global best practices are just beginning to surface in back-office functions such as custody and fund accounting.
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More questions than answers as Sharia develops
Three years ago, when the US sub-prime crisis exploded, GS Khoo was already testing the ground for fissures in other parts of the financial services landscape. Islamic finance was one of the areas he predicted would face issues. Bee Ong reports
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Institutional investors and Sharia
by Bee Ong - Sharia investment professionals think that non-Muslims will find sharia investments attractive from the risk perspective.
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IP Asia
Japanese real estate update
by Oscar Volder - In the unlisted segment of the market, some pension fund investors were approached with the request to add capital to their investment in order not to lose all of the initially invested equity.
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How to make the most of member choice
As Hong Kong comes closer to implementing the new Mandatory Provident Funds Schemes (Amendment) Ordinance, heralding the era of member choice, we asked Philip Tso, Head of Investment, Hong Kong for Towers Watson, for his thoughts on how this new regime will play out. We know from the experience of ...
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IP Asia
Partners are the key to success
One key issue for any fund manager that has aspirations to be a global player, is the potential to enter the domestic fund management market in China. Joseph Mariathasan reports.
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Be Ready for RMB Funds
by Joseph Mariathasan - it will not be long before foreign private equity firms can set up RMB funds with parallel onshore and offshore vehicles. Such a development would enable firms to attract both domestic and foreign capital.
