All IPE articles in May 2011 (Magazine)
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Special Report
France: The impact of a shorter horizon
Alain Lemoine makes a gloomy assessment of the wider impact on French pensions reform and funding of the decision to drawdown on FRR
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Special Report
France: Internalising investment
France’s Fonds stratégique d’investissement plans to increase its regional diversification in 2011 and establish a capital investment fund in Alsace. Stuart Todd assesses these and other goals
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Features
Feathering the NEST
Jonathan Williams finds out how the UK’s National Employment Savings Trust is setting out to encourage new members to join
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Features
Martin Steward: A tragedy of errors
When three of the world’s major central banks do three different things for three different reasons, it’s a fair bet that at least one of them is making a policy error. But which one is making the error, how serious is it, and do the other two need to worry?
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: The post-crisis panorama
The 2007-09 crisis has had visible and long-term consequences on the small world of private equity, writes Cyril Demaria
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Growth markets of the north
India, China, Brazil? Iain Morse finds that investors are apt to look at the Nordic countries when considering the most attractive places to commit private equity money
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Features
Good time for private equity
Just over 60% of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey said their fund invested in private equity. One respondent said they were about to start investing, while the remaining respondents do not invest.
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Special Report
France: How do you spell ‘engagement’?
Dominique Blanc and Samer Hobeika discuss the French approach to shareholder engagement
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Special Report
France: Diversity embraced
Christine Senior reports on the shift away from sovereign debt as French insurers seek yield and reduce risk
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Opinion Pieces
Making DC kings
Fidelity is still the king of the US retirement market, at number one among the defined contribution (DC) plans with over $940bn (€651bn) of assets in custody as record keeper at the end of 2010, 12% more than the year before. And there is not a traditional bank among the ...
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Special Report
France: Learning the lessons of crisis
Jean-Pierre Grimaud discusses the importance of stability for the investment industry
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Special Report
France: Continental drift
Richard Bruyère presents the results of the tenth annual I&F survey of the institutional marketplace in France
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Special Report
France: The company and retirement
Nora Ouidir discusses corporate approaches to retirement and human resource issues in France
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Special Report
Commodities: Grub first, then ethics
Passions run high and evidence is mixed. Nina Röhrbein finds pension fund investors often play safe when it comes to food futures
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Special Report
Commodities: Energy revolutions
Forget renewables. Anthony Harrington finds that the technology that might really disrupt your portfolio’s traditional oil exposures – and much else besides – could be shale gas extraction
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Special Report
Commodities: Water, water everywhere…
…any way to invest? Martin Steward ponders how to turn H2O into EUR, GBP and USD
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Keep a clear head
Growth in earnings rather than gearing will be the key to future private equity success, finds Joseph Mariathasan. But where to find it when the developed world expects economic growth to remain depressed?
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Features
Liam Kennedy: A tale of two CIOs
APG in the Netherlands and Hermes in the UK – two pension management organisations that are owned by their largest client, respectively the largest pension funds in their two countries.
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Beyond Denmark
Rachel Fixsen reviews ATP’s international expansion plans, which have caused controversy in Denmark
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Special Report
Commodities: Beyond oil
Lynn Strongin Dodds considers the extra diversification benefits available from commodities with weaker links to the industrial cycle
