All IPE articles in May 2011 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Nina Röhrbein: Bitter side of sugar, grains and cocoa beans
With food and oil prices setting new record highs, many investors find it hard to resist the lure of commodity investments nowadays.
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Features
Ways to make DC plans attractive
Gail Moss finds out how DC plans can be tailored to suit different types of individuals
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Special Report
Commodities: Whipping up the amber waves
Commodity futures investors are not ‘evil speculators’, finds Martin Steward. But do they enable the farmers who are?
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Country Report
Nordic Region: The alternative proves popular
Andreas Larsson discusses Swedish pension asset allocation trends. As the appetite for alternative investments is increasing, investors must have the capacity to hold the associated liquidity risks
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Altruistic allocation
Rachel Fixsen looks at Danish investors’ allocations to the biotechnology industry
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Capital controls stifle allocation
Nina Röhrbein assesses the impact on pension funds of the collapse of the Icelandic banking industry
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Debt crisis shifts allocation focus
Reeta Paakkinen assesses asset allocation trends among Finland’s pension institutions
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Features
Maintaining value
Martin Steward spoke with Dorrit Vanglo, LD Pension’s new CEO, and head of investment and finance Lars Walberg about tendering €6bn worth of investment mandates
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Special Report
Learning from Vedanta
Nina Röhrbein examines the rights of indigenous people, an important issue as natural resources become scarcer, forcing exploration of the world’s remoter regions
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Features
Meet the new investment office
Saker Nusseibeh, head of investment at Hermes Fund Managers, sees something wrong in the current system of pension fund management, which he believes prioritises product proliferation and a mentality of ‘buyer beware’ over trusted advice.
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Features
From our perspective: Meet the governance police
Staffing a company board is many times more an art than it is a science. Appointments largely seek to balance sector specialisation with wider business experience, length and breadth of experience, and softer skills such as communication and advocacy. Other aspects, such as gender diversity, are of growing importance, as seen in the UK’s 30% Club and in Scandinavian countries that have minimum appointment figures for women.
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Features
Gateways to growing markets
Iain Morse surveys securities services markets in Portugal, Gibraltar and Cyprus
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Special Report
France: Same game, new playing field
Legislation passed late in 2010 completely changed the FRR’s purpose and liability stream. Martin Steward spoke with its CIO about the consequent re-tooling of its investment strategy
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Features
MPs grill experts in pensions row
“I am sure Mr Bosch would have liked it very much if we’d have endorsed this, but we did not. We never endorse these types of reports.” With these words, Joanne Kellermann, director at Dutch pension supervisor and central bank DNB, distanced herself from a controversial report by consultant Frits Bosch that was commissioned by Dutch news show Zembla. Based on Bosch’s analysis, the show, which aired in February, contended that hundreds of billions of Dutch pension savings had “vanished”. K
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Interviews
‘Risk is everything to us’
Asset managers’ products rarely surprise anyone. You’re an equities specialist? You’ll have US, European, UK, emerging markets funds, maybe Japan. Fixed income? I’ll choose from your treasuries, gilts and Eurozone products, investment grade and high yield, maybe local currency emerging markets. There might even be some convertibles tucked away somewhere.
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: What are funds of funds for?
Our main article identifies mid-market strategies and emerging markets as the key areas of future earnings growth in private equity. It has to be said that funds of funds providers tend to prefer this space in the US and Europe, arguing that returns are likely to be better and that they themselves cannot add much value by investing in the handful of mega funds that large institutions can invest in directly.
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Features
Dial-a-psychic
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) workplans have tended to be less reliable sources of information than a dial-a-psychic.
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Opinion Pieces
Defusing Short-Termism
The European Commission’s (EC) new green paper, ‘The EU Corporate Governance Framework’, clearly aims to encourage company owners to take a more active role in influencing management.
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Features
Define risk, please
Off to talk to the chairman of the pension fund board. ‘Well Pieter, many members are still phoning the administration helpline to ask about investment policy. The recent television programme that criticised the industry for not paying more in premiums means we are still in the firing line.’
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