All articles by Martin Steward – Page 2
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Interviews
Of orange blood and quieting storms
It has been a stormy four years at ING Investment Management – but the skies are finally starting to clear.
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Features
We were all caught naked
IPE hosted Stanford Business School’s Anat Admati this month, in town promoting The Bankers’ New Clothes, the well-received book she co-wrote with Martin Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute.
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Special Report
Risk & Portfolio Construction: ‘All equities are black boxes’
In January 2011 the PNO Media Pension Fund terminated its US and European equity enhanced-index mandates with Barclays Global Investors and brought the assets in-house. However, it did not go passive – or at least, not in the sense in which most of us would understand the term.
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News
Pantheon hires Verizon pensions innovator to head private equity for DC
NORTH AMERICA – Private equity fund of funds aimed at 'mini-DB' 401k default strategies.
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Special Report
Longevity: Living longer, costing more
In 1985, for every person turning 65, there were 10 new people of working age. According to estimates from the UN, by 2040, for every person turning 65, there will be less than one additional person in the 20-64 years age groupage
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Bridging the gap
Martin Steward meets the co-founders of OceanBridge Partners, whose flexible new model aims to maximise the potential of private equity investing
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Special Report
Longevity: The great age of divestment
Martin Steward looks at evidence for the demographic ‘asset meltdown’ theory, some investment strategy implications – and the major caveats attached to putting too much store in it
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Features
Stuck in the middle
The mezzanine-debt opportunity has not gone away. But Martin Steward finds that success will probably depend on both greater focus and flexibility
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Features
The EU-thanasia of the rentier
It was hardly a happy coincidence that the EC’s consultation paper on the long-term financing of Europe’s economy was published on the same day that the Cypriot bank ‘bail-in’ was agreed – but it was surely an instructive one.
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Interviews
An emerging markets coup
After a burst of acquisitive growth during its years as the investment division of Lehman Brothers, Neuberger Berman’s time as an independent asset manager has instead been spent redefining its brand, building track records and expanding its global reach.
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News
QE1 hurt UK pension funds, but not QE2, says JP Morgan
UK – Asset manager to discuss findings of new research with Bank of England next week.
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News
iShares 'working on' ETF solution for UK pension funds
UK – Non-FSA registered institutions currently unable to trade ETFs.
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News
ING IM commits to re-building EM debt team with new hire
NETHERLANDS – Marco Ruijer hired, asset losses ‘relatively low’ after seven departures.
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Herding cats... and other insurance-linked risks
It is not always easy to tell what someone means when they talk about ‘insurance-linked investments’ – but distinctions are imperative because the various components of this complex market present very different risk and return profiles.
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments:Integrating catastrophe risk
Reinsurance risk is clearly diversifying against pension funds’ core financial market risks. But Martin Steward writes on the importance of defining objectives beyond simple diversification when investing in this asset class
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: AQR Re: where quakes meet quants
Martin Steward met the reinsurance team established by quantitative asset manager AQR Capital Management
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Features
‘Great rotation’, or liquidity-trap trade?
There’s a puzzle at the heart of this month’s Strategy Review on US equities. All four interviewees run defensive portfolios – one is so bearish, he expects a re-rating to 10 times earnings – but have struggled to keep pace with a rally led by quality defensives.
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Asset Class Reports
US Equities: Growth – but at what price?
US equity managers’ performance has been determined by a long period of convergence between value and growth strategies. Martin Steward outlines these characteristics in four portfolios and asks if this era is coming to an end
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Interviews
Degrees of freedom
It has been a busy Q1 for Artisan Partners. At the time of writing, the 19-year-old firm was on the brink of its IPO. Aiming to raise almost $330m with which to clear its loans, buy back shares and reward its pre-IPO partners, the event feels like the foundation for the firm’s next stage of growth.
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Features
War, what is it good for?
In the UK we’ve had quantitative easing for so long now that one of the bonds that the Bank of England started buying in August 2009 is about to mature. When that happens, on 7 March, the Bank says that it will re-invest the £6.6bn in more bonds. Is that monetary loosening? My brain hurts just thinking about it.