All IPE articles in May 2007 (Magazine) – Page 4

  • Features

    The end of a perfect storm

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Investors need to safeguard against complacency having grown used to double digit returns over recent years, Joseph Mariathasan argues

  • Features

    US Treasury yields positive as rate cuts on hold

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Yield curve/duration The oil price is on the rise, and indeed has been since the start of the year. There are a variety of factors all contributing to the higher prices: strong global demand, recent colder weather, production cuts from OPEC and tensions created by the capture of the fifteen ...

  • Special Report

    Where governance can create or destroy value

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Anthony Chan argues that institutional investment strategies are often mismatched with governance arrangements

  • Features

    Careon steers a steady course

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    The tax-friendly ‘levensloop’, or life-course, scheme has been characterised as Holland’s damp squib. Leen Preesman hears how PGGM’s new levensloop subsidiary Careon plans to put some fizz into the idea

  • Features

    Freedom brings new restraints

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Funds are navigating their way around a new risk management directive, writes Barbara Ottawa

  • Features

    Bond opportunities increase as financial markets mature

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Robert Mann outlines the attractions of Asian bonds for international investors

  • Features

    The big shake-up

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Following a vote in July 2006 by the International Accounting Standards Board to embark on a two-phase project to improve its IAS19 pensions accounting standard, Stephen Bouvier rounds up the developments to date

  • Features

    Stronger than before

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    China’s resurgence will not be halted by periodic market corrections. Richard Newell asks China fund managers for their appraisal of the growth to come

  • Features

    Private equity giants home in on Asia Pacific

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Alex Frew McMillan assesses the growing popularity of private equity in the Asia Pacific region

  • Features

    The appeal of Asian debt

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Asian debt has a growing investor base as the emerging economies transform their credit fundamentals. Chia-Liang Lian explains why Asian bonds make a good case for global diversification

  • Features

    Going against the investment grain

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    The solution to Holland’s pension problems lies in a system with more focus on pay-as-you-go systems and less on funded systems, say the authors of a new book. Alfred Kool finds out why

  • Features

    Africa rides the Asian zebra

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    South Africa remains the continent’s superpower but Asian economic influence is increasing in Africa, writes George Coats

  • Features

    AFM makes the right connections

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    One of the key tasks of the new financial markets regulator is to oversee the communication of information about indexation to pension fund members. Leen Preesman asks AFM’s managing director Gerald Santing about the level of supervision pension funds and insurers can expect