Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 709
-
Features
Dipping a toe in the water
With equity markets in the doldrums, investors are turning their attention to alternative investments such as hedge funds for their high potential returns and their ability to reduce overall portfolio risk. Over the past decade or so, the global hedge fund industry has grown rapidly from an estimated 1,500 funds ...
-
Features
Pointers to choosing managers
The process of selecting a fund of hedge funds manager starts with the initial rationale and process for including hedge funds in a scheme’s asset allocation. By looking to include hedge funds in the asset allocation, the pension scheme investors will have been driven by some of the following thoughts ...
-
Features
Market efficiency or hooliganism?
There are many myths concerning short selling. A recent example of misconception came from Hans Eichel, the German finance minister, in an article written for the ‘Personal View’ column of the Financial Times. According to the article, the German government has included, in its draft of a fourth Financial Market ...
-
Features
Whether to take it or leave it
If the current low interest rate, low growth environment persists across Europe the question of annuities is likely become contentious. The value of annuities – which is linked to the performance of bonds – has fallen with interest rates. As defined contribution (DC) pension plans mature, people are discovering that ...
-
Special Report
The flag to attract institutional interest
Both retail and institutional markets have seen a proliferation of screened ethical funds over the past year, despite adverse market conditions and overall decline in popularity of screened funds, according to a report by Avanzi, the Italian SRI research organisation (part of the SiRi Group). The report, entitled ‘Green, social ...
