All IPE articles in May 2015 (Magazine)
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Features
Swiss troubled by negative 10-year bond yields
Institutional investors in Switzerland are far from happy their government has issued the first 10-year bond in Europe with a negative rate
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Country Report
Sweden: AP7 triumphs
CIO Richard Gröttheim downplays his fund’s recent stellar performance, explaining that conviction in strategy should always trump short-term gain
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Features
Accounting Matters: Fair valuing the future
Bad accounting breeds bad policies. Or so it would seem
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Features
Class Action Lawsuits: Petrobras - A case for care
Pension funds exposed to troubled Petrobras that have lost money on their investment will have to weigh their options carefully before deciding which legal route to take
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Special Report
Credit: Corporate Activity & Debt Supply
The market has been suffering a shortage of loan supply, and even a pick-up in M&A and LBO activity might not be enough to reverse it
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Country Report
Amundi & EDF: Adopting a dual approach
Amundi and EDF have combined forces with the announcement of a new asset management company
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Country ReportFrance's Agirc-Arrco: Reform of last resort
French public finance magistrates have stressed the urgency of reforms to France’s main private sector supplementary regime, Agirc-Arrco
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Country Report
Agirc-Arrco: Opening closed shops
Restructuring France’s supplementary pension schemes will see greater centralised management and the increased use of passive strategies
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Oil be back
Niels Jensen looks at worlwide production costs for getting oil out of the ground
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Country Report
Denmark: Ahead of the rest
Rachel Fixsen speaks with one of the leaders of a new research centre that aims to keep Denmark as the leading pension provider
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Alecta
Per Frennberg, chief investment officer at Alecta, describes his team’s emphasis on investment analysis to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: A growth story revisited
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Indefi’s fourteenth annual research report analysing institutional investment trends in France
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Although the severe winter did have a significant impact on US economic activity in the first quarter, the strength of the headwinds from a stronger dollar and the collapse in capital spending within the energy sector have also taken their toll
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Autres temps, autres mœurs
France’s institutional investors, like most across Europe, are struggling to adapt to the low-interest environment
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate Equity: Alternative investment structures
Both general and limited partners are striving to break free of traditional fund structures to find more flexible and efficient ways to commit to private equity
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Anton van Nunen - Van Nunen & Partners
“Pension funds should be clearly distinguished from insurance companies because their objective is to manage risks, rather than hedge them”
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Country Report
Sweden's Pensions Working Group unlikely to reach conclusions any time soon
Pirkko Juntunen asks when the Pensions Working Group will finally come to any conclusions. The answer seems to be ‘nobody knows, but not any time soon’
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your approach to private markets?
This month three pension funds share their views on investing in private markets
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Special Report
Assessing pension fund capital risk
Pension fund appetite for direct participation in infrastructure debt continues to grow. Yet, this brings increased risk to assess
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Special Report
Cyber Security in Asset Management
In an increasingly mobile, cloud-based digital world, the old model of thick walls around a centralised information keep is out of date
