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  • IP Asia

    The new Indian Provident Fund

    IP Asia January 2009

    Carl Redondo assesses the winners and losers from India’s new pension savings initiative

  • Features

    IASB continues its comedy of errors

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Further deliberation of the International Accouting Standards Board’s (IASB) preliminary views on pensions accounting kicked-off pretty much as we would expect, with staff failing to meet a self-imposed deadline, and a dose of unnecessary secrecy. The plan, said Andrea Pryde, on 19 November, was to “present an overview of the ...

  • Features

    Commodity turnaround

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    With volatility is still at its highest levels (56%), the stock markets again had to face adverse conditions in November and produced a significantly negative return (-7.18%), although this was less than half October’s record. The S&P500 index has now returned to its level of July 2003. Similarly, the commodities ...

  • Features

    Negative streak continues

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Hedge funds continued their negative streak for the sixth month in a row, falling 0.8% as November saw the continuation of several of the dominant themes from September and October: distressed selling, deleveraging and redemptions among hedge funds, heightened volatility and an increasing disconnect between asset prices and underlying fundamentals, ...

  • Features

    Looking ahead to recession

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Yield curve/duration The US economy slid into recession in December 2007, says the National Bureau of Economic Research. As we start 2009 the extreme pain being felt in both the jobs and the housing markets is not easing; figures from the Mortgage Bankers Association suggest that in Q3 2008 one ...

  • An upbeat Christmas carol
    Features

    An upbeat Christmas carol

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens describes his most famous character as follows: “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting ...

  • Pensions portability: Where are we now?
    Features

    Pensions portability: Where are we now?

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Not quite a dead parrot, it will take a lot longer to get the EU’s pension portability directive back to life, says Gail Moss

  • Innovation: Used, misused and abused
    Features

    Innovation: Used, misused and abused

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    In the third in a series of articles on a new report, Amin Rajan laments that alpha has been everywhere except in performance numbers

  • Views on the year to come
    Features

    Views on the year to come

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    We asked ten CIOs and other senior figures at international assset management firms: ‘Where will investment opportunities lie in 2009?’

  • Get the risks right
    Special Report

    Get the risks right

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Tony Freeman addresses the increasing importance of operational issues for asset managers

  • A Christian institutional investor
    Features

    A Christian institutional investor

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    A year ago the Church of Sweden implemented a new investment policy which includes a more sophisticated, layered approach to its ethical investing. Brendan Maton spoke with CIO Anders Thorendal

  • Banks hit the ‘sweet spot’
    Features

    Banks hit the ‘sweet spot’

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Unglamorous unleveraged bank loans are suddenly de rigueur for the long-term investor. David White investigates

  • Challenges and opportunties ahead
    Interviews

    Challenges and opportunities ahead

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    IPE asked three pension funds: ‘What challenges and opportunities will you face in 2009?’

  • A guide to counterparty risk
    Special Report

    A guide to counterparty risk

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    Mark Petit and Jeroen van der Hoek of Cardano explain the nature of counterparty risk in some of the most common over the counter (OTC) transactions and discuss how investors in OTC markets have fared in these testing times

  • Special Report

    NPRF separates commodity risks

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    The default of swaps provider Lehman Brothers in October 2008 sent shockwaves through the investment community and made some investors re-examine their commodity swaps positions. One of those affected was Ireland’s National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF). With a benchmark allocation of 2% to commodities and forestry, it currently has all ...

  • Features

    BVK keeps long and short strategy

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    The pension fund of the Canton of Zurich (BVK) has been investing in commodities since August 2006 when it decided to allocate 4% of its portfolio to commodities. Its strategic exposure consists of seven individual commodity investments in three sub-categories. At end-June 2008 a collateralised commodity index note accounted ...

  • IP Asia

    Crunch will change the landscape for investors

    IP Asia December 2008

    Richard’s leader article, written in the teeth of the worst period for world markets in 70 years.

  • Long on intentions but short on deliverables
    Special Report

    Long on intentions but short on deliverables

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    In the first of a series of articles on a new study, Amin Rajan argues that Europe’s pension landscape is not fit for purpose post the credit crisis

  • Features

    Funds await final outcome

    November 2008 (Magazine)

  • Special Report

    After landfill

    November 2008 (Magazine)