Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 471
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Features
'Toxic waste' in pension funds
Are American pension funds affected by the sub prime mortgage crisis? And how deeply? A definite answer may come only in a few months. In the meantime there is a lot of denial together with suspicion and fear. For sure, investment banks have been offering RMBS (Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities), CDOs ...
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Value added is core
Value-added is a much-used term in the securities services business, but it is a definition that quickly becomes redundant as clients come to expect more from their providers. It doesn’t take long for a value-added service to become a core part of a custodian’s standard offerings. Now, custodians provide a ...
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Bringing skill to the fore
Fixed income managers in Europe are increasingly targeting areas such as derivatives, currency and emerging markets but, as Joseph Mariathasan discovers, not everyone excels at shouldering this extra responsibility
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Japanese outlook questionable
The Japanese economy continues to cause some concerns for institutional investors, despite signs of recovery. The recent market volatility, largely a result of the US sub-prime lending crisis, has further put pressure on a market which has failed to see a recovery of domestic spending, although there have been plenty ...
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A trustee’s flexible friend?
Andrew Campbell-Hart finds that DB insurance can be a versatile and cost-effective means of protecting sponsors and trustees from deficit risk
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A changed landscape
Investment consultants are adapting their models to cope with increasing demands from clients, finds Pirkko Juntunen, but they face competition from investment banks and boutiques
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Stakeholder revisited?
Hugo Greenhalgh canvasses opinion on the government’s proposed personal accounts and asks whether they will encourage more people to save for their retirement
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Special Report
How to clean up with clean technology
Current concerns about global warming have raised investor interest in clean technology businesses and the private equity funds that invest in them. David White reports
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Looking back and looking forward
After 13 years with the pensions provider and asset manager Cordares and its predecessor, the Sociaal Fonds voor de Bouw-nijverheid (SFB), departing chairman Joep Schouten looks back at a career that started on the shop floor. Leen Preesman reports
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Pension funds want to hold residential property - BPF
UK - Pension funds are interested in investing in UK residential property vehicles if some form of institutional residential investment market can be established, according to the British Property Federation (BPF). Gareth Lewis, director of
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Making the index choice
Iain Morse examines the properties of the leading commodities indices available to investors
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A walk on the macro side
Supply and demand issues are hitting commodities, but China could well prop up the market. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Commodities in practice
As pension funds continue to embrace alternatives as an asset class, investing in commodities is a young but significant trend, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Europe's pensions patchwork
After 10 years of upheaval, Paul Kelly examines whether Europe’s pension funds can be optimistic about the future
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Looking over the regulatory fence
The freedom of the EU pensions directive allows pension funds to move to more favourable jurisdictions. But, as Rachel Fixsen reports, deciding on such a course of action is not easy
