Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 423
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint
“Seeing that the key to restoring stability lies with them, pension funds are a growing force for change”
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Features
Regulation and ALM
Samuel Sender argues that IAS19 should tolerate funding volatility for DB obligations and that pension funds should improve internal risk models
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Features
A better approach to solvency
The Dutch regulator is using the wrong measure to assess pension liabilities, argue Piet Duffhues and Anton van Nunen. They offer a different approach
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Features
Deficits raise questions over the future of Sweden’s AP funds
George Coats examines whether it is time to put politics aside and create one buffer fund that can provide for all generations and save money in the process
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Country ReportCommon factors despite diversity
Cyprus, Malta, Greece and Turkey have many factors in common. Not least is a need for pension reform, finds George Coats
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Country Report
Economic crisis slows private sector
The impact of the global slowdown and growing unemployment have had the effect of limiting private pensions to the third pillar and delayed discussion of creating a second pillar, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Special Report
Trillions of dollars of expense
US institutions discussed the prospect of a new investment world at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles at the end of April. Liam Kennedy, who moderated the institutional investors’ panel, here discusses what they had to say
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Special Report
Sound FX
It is not certain whether the currency risk of an equity portfolio can be hedged effectively. Martin Steward assesses this and pension funds’ changing approaches to currency risk
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Special Report
Use some discretion
In a volatile environment, systematic quantitative styles of currency management struggle to find their footing. Fundamentals-based strategies provide the best alpha-generation and preservation opportunities, argues Mark Farrington
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Special Report
Gold: currency of last resort?
It has been years since the world abandoned the gold standard, but now, for many institutional investors, allocating to gold has become about currency and inflation hedging, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Interviews
IAM what IAM
It’s been an eventful few years for fund of hedge funds International Asset Management (IAM).
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Features
More than a euro/dollar play?
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds attitudes towards currency management
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IP Asia
Dynamic hedge - a way of shock-proofing your portfolio
In common with institutions elsewhere in the region, Japan’s pension funds have been actively pursuing alternative strategies.
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IP Asia
The recipe for success in Asian real estate
Practitioners in real estate know that successful investing in real estate requires many things to go right and it’s genuinely the product of team work.
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IP Asia
Why change is hard to achieve
Janet Li, Watson Wyatt’s head of investment consulting for Taiwan says the country has some hard choices ahead, but embedded corruption and a lack of accountability mean the situation is unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future. “Taiwanese are culturally afraid of change,” says Li, “and a culture of ...
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IP Asia
China faces up to its biggest challenge
The Chinese government is presently undergoing important reforms to build a sustainable, nationwide pension system.
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Nimble and flexible
The Amsterdam rain is falling against the windows as we see a market rally on the computer screens. All good timing for the conference I am attending with the theme ‘What now for Pension Funds?’
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Special Report
Keep it simple
Choosing collateral and counterparty wisely will help to mitigate substantially against the future risk of default in securities lending, finds Iain Morse
