Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 445
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FeaturesOld wine in new bottles?
Felix Goltz reports on a recent EDHEC study* into characteristics-based indices versus market cap-weighted indices
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FeaturesSomething old, something new
Some years back the Bank of Ireland set itself the challenge of creating a new pension scheme providing a more homogenous investment approach for employees across the whole group. Nina Röhrbein spoke to the bank’s head of pensions, Michelle Roche, to learn more about this young scheme’s progress
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Special Report
The road ahead
Giles Drury and Tom Brown discuss how fund managers can move on after the credit crisis
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Collective power lift for DC plans
Jorrit de Jong, Joeri Potter and Alwin Oerlemans argue that a collective approach can improve the outcome of DC pension plans for both employers and employees
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Special ReportSource of support and influence
With the burden of regulation growing and problems around issues like Solvency II, Martin Delaney asks how pension associations are tackling these issues on behalf of members
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FeaturesStagflation has arrived
Pension funds are now working in an investment environment that is not only difficult but that has not been seen some time, as George Inderst reports
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Exceptions to the rule
The message from Anne McGeachin on international financial reporting standards (IFRS) was clear: "The IFRS must be applicable worldwide, and we therefore cannot go around exempting jurisdictions.
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Inflation concerns continue
Yield curve/duration Corporate Europe is worried about the business outlook: both sentiment indicators and real economic news have been deteriorating over the summer. But with headline inflation so far above the European Central Bank’s (ECB) own target rate - in fact it hit double that level in July - there ...
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Special ReportRegrets? Not even a few
Bengt Emriksson is retiring as managing director of Kyrkans pensionskassa, the SEK8bn (€856m) pension fund of the Swedish church, after eight years in the job. He talks to George Coats about his career
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Hunt is on for commodity-related opportunities
Following record commodity prices this year, index providers are on the lookout for more opportunities related to the commodities boom. MSCI Barra, for example, has already developed the MSCI Agriculture & Food Chain indices, which are part of the MSCI Thematic & Strategy indices family. The new indices are designed ...
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New products
Longevity winners index Research, rating and index company E Capital Partner Indices (ECPI), which focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, has launched a longevity index consisting of stocks that are set to profit from demographic changes. With the section of the population aged 60 or over expected ...
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FeaturesHedge fund index outperformance
With a performance of 5.02%, hedge fund index ARIX (Absolute Return Investable Index) Composite index - which covers the four hedge fund strategies of equity hedge, event driven, relative value and tactical trading and is sponsored by German Feri Institutional Advisors - outperformed its rival investable hedge fund indices in ...
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Fine wine outclassed
As an alternative investment class, fine wine has rewarded investors with steady returns of up to 8% per annum over the past decade, according to the Liv-ex 100 Index. In the 12 months to end-June 2008 a typical fine wines portfolio rose 8.5%. But this has been trumped by ...
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FeaturesPanic sell-off opportunities
The indiscriminate sell-off in European bond markets sparked by the sub-prime crisis has opened up opportunities for canny investors and reminds Joseph Mariathasan of the words of former US president Franklin Roosevelt
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FeaturesFunds risk selling themselves short
As important sources of stocklending, pension funds are under pressure to ensure they are not enabling damaging short selling. David White reports
