All IPE articles in May 2011 (Magazine) – Page 2
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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
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: Learning the lessons of crisis
Jean-Pierre Grimaud discusses the importance of stability for the investment industry
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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: Diversity embraced
Christine Senior reports on the shift away from sovereign debt as French insurers seek yield and reduce risk
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