All IPE articles in March 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Special Report
Catastrophe Risk: Earth, wind and diversification
Diversification across catastrophe risks between different territories and natural perils is essential, according to Anthony Harrington
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Special Report
Case Studies: Stability through diversity
Rachel Fixsen speaks to PGGM and AP3, two pioneer investors in the insurance-linked market
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Features
Capital Flows: Capital flees emerging markets
Capital flight from emerging economies is an important part of the story of global stockmarket volatility and plummeting bond yields
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Race to upgrade EFSI
Legislative moves to support the EU’s European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) are being rushed through Brussels. But, so far, evidence of any torrent of fund movement by the institutional investment sector across EU frontiers has yet to emerge.
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Features
Briefing: Form Filling
Technical breaches of rules on company dividend payments raise corporate governance issues for investors, finds Stephen Bouvier
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Features
High-yield bonds: Expect dispersion
Last year was a difficult one for high-yield bond investors, particularly in the US, driven by a collapse in metals and mining on top of the decline in oil prices
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Asset Class ReportsInvesting In High-Yield Bonds: Does fortune favour the brave?
Liquidity has plunged and performance has been poor with US metals and energy issuers suffering most greatly
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Can you see the bigger picture?
There are some things we in the investment office of Wasserdicht Pension Funds don’t want to get involved in and one of them is internal group politics. For that we have our trustee board, which is responsible for making the decisions in any case, and our formidable chairman of trustees, Rolf.
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Features
Interview: Gabriel Bernardino, EIOPA
EIOPA chairman Gabriel Bernardino explains why the recent stress tests of European occupational pension funds were a valuable exercise
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Asset Class Reports
High-yield bonds: Beyond the benchmark
Investors will need to take into account shortcomings in high-yield benchmarks and the idiosyncratic nature of markets when selecting a strategy
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Country ReportPensions In Belgium: Limited by size constraints
Belgian pension funds are well funded, but their small size restricts their opportunities to diversify, according to Gail Moss
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: In search of balance
A woman leads one of the US pension funds most committed to long-terminism. She is Theresa J Whitmarsh, executive director of the Washington State Investment Board (WSIB), managing over $100bn (€89bn) of state pension, insurance, and other assets. She is also an advocate for a better gender balance in the financial industry, especially in the private equity sector.
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Features
ATP: New risk-factor construction makes investment portfolio more flexible
Denmark’s DKK705bn (€94bn) statutory pension fund ATP says its new risk-factor-based investment portfolio approach, unveiled in its 2015 annual report, increases its investment flexibility and provides it with a better understanding of risk.
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Interviews
On the Record: How do you optimise asset management costs?
Three pension funds - FONSEA, Pensions Caixa 30 and Sampension - discuss asset management costs
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Features
Asset Management Fees: What’s the going rate?
Despite calls for a greater level of alignment between asset managers and pension funds, alternative fee models have not yet taken off
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Special Report
Private Placements & Speciality Lines: Sound private arrangements
Diversifying into aviation, marine and energy risks through private placements makes sense from a risk-and-return perspective, writes Anthony Harrington
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Features
Stop monkeying around
Twenty years ago it made sense to use Chinese new year as a peg to discuss investing in China. A decade ago it had worn thin. To do it this year was a sign of hopeless naivety.
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Features
Focus Group: Different approaches to fees
Less than half of those polled for this month’s Focus Group (13 respondents, compared with 22 in the June 2014 survey) are in favour of asset management performance fees.
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Seeking greater risk
Some Dutch pension funds are increasing their risk proile this year, according to Daniel Ben-Ami
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Features
Asset Allocation & Risk: The (im)patience of capital
Our two most valuable tools – our brains and time – should be harnessed to counter the potentially devastating consequences of our behavioural biases, says Bob Swarup
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