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

  • Features

    Smart solutions for the self-employed

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    The pension needs of the self-employed in Holland have been overlooked in the past, particularly their ability and willingness to bear risk. Alwin Oerlemans and Jeroen Tielman report on some of the solutions proposed at the recent PensionSummit

  • Special Report

    How to avoid future minefields

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    The row over pension funds investing in companies that manufacture cluster bombs and landmines could perhaps have been avoided if the funds had used a new portfolio screening service. David White reports

  • Features

    Treading with caution in the global market

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Richard Newell talks to the management of New Zealand’s investment fund about the challenges of being a global investor

  • Special Report

    Best practice in Malaysia

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Tan Lye Huat highlights the progress being made in applying new corporate governance guidelines in Malaysia

  • Features

    Benchmarking for tomorrow's models

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Paul Hoff looks at how index providers are responding to the needs of investors for ready access to new markets

  • Features

    Indexing for an inefficient market

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Passive indexing has rapidly gained popularity and importance among institutional investors in the rest of the world but to a lesser extent in Asia, with good reason. Jason Hsu and Jason Chia-Shang Tuan explain a new strategy that may alter this

  • Features

    Early days for DC Korean-style

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    It is over a year since Korea’s defined contribution pension system was introduced. Carl Redondo assesses the progress made so far

  • Features

    A tale of two pension laws

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Oscar Volder finds Japan searching for a third way between DB and DC. Success will depend on how well its institutions can work together

  • Features

    Emerging markets - too big to ignore

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    In a detailed paper, ‘Efficiently adding emerging market equities to a global portfolio’, Northern Trust’s Steven Schoenfeld and Alain Cubeles argue that investors should commit 7-8% of their global equity portfolios to the class. Here is a summary of their views

  • Features

    Hedge funds: the way to play emerging markets

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Peter Douglas believes hedge funds offer a route to better returns and effective risk management in developing markets

  • Features

    Widening the net in Pakistan

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Moiz Mushir Ahmad Khan describes how Pakistan’s Voluntary Pension System has finally come into force

  • Features

    Asian hedge funds - from youth to maturity

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    After a period working in North America, Paul Smith assesses the challenges of building a substantial asset management business in Asia

  • Features

    Crowding out enterprise annuity pensions

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Victor Wong argues that, with China's basic pension system under increasing pressure, the enterprise annuity programme may be a casualty