All IPE articles in May 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Special Report
Direct lenders take up bank slack
Lower levels of bank lending are opening up opportunities for private debt, according to Joseph Mariathasan
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Special Report
Bank Credit: Look for the whites of their eyes
David Turner asks whether investors should shun bank credit or be prepared to grasp opportunities
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Features
British Steel Pension Scheme: Steeling for a battle over pensions
As the UK faces the prospect of its steel industry winding down, attention has focused not only on the possibility of a temporary nationalisation of some of the assets owned by Tata Steel but also on the fate of the British Steel Pension Scheme
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Special Report
Sustainable investing is becoming much more important
The importance of sustainable investments is steadily increasing. At the same time, the debate surrounding the added value of this investment approach continues
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Features
Behind Chinese walls
Liyu Zeng and Priscilla Luk analyse the challenges in designing a benchmark to measure the performance of both offshore and onshore listed companies
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Features
Infrastructure: A benchmark for rebuilding trust
Pension investors’ interest in infrastructure assets has been rising in recent years, with more than half of those surveyed by Preqin for its most recent investor outlook, saying they would increase exposure to the asset class in future.
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Special Report
Smart beta strategy evaluation and due diligence
Factor investing seeks to identify and capture broad, persistent drivers of return. It is the formalisation of, for example, the idea of seeking inexpensive companies (value investing) or high quality balance sheets (quality investing) – intuitive investment styles that have long been part of the active management toolkit
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Special Report
High Yield: Beyond traditional metrics
There are no short cuts in the evaluation of high-yield opportunities, according to Anthony Harrington
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Special Report
The big picture on ETFs
The ETF industry continues to prosper on almost every metric. Yet it does face both headwinds and tailwinds
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Interviews
On the Record: How have you broadened your bond exposure?
Three investors - Ilmarinen, MN and SEB Pension - share details about their fixed income allocations
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Book Review
Book Review: The Future of Pension Management
Where others might lose themselves in a discussion on organisational design, regulation or social policy, Keith Ambachtsheer’s book wastes no time in placing pension funds at the heart of capitalism
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Book Review
Book Review: An energy supply for life
Joseph Mariathasan reviews Wade Allison’s Nuclear is for Life: A Cultural Revolution
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Country Report
PERCO brews a success
A new law aims to make collective retirement savings plans more attractive, writes Susanna Rust
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Ethical pressures mount
There are plenty of indicators of rising pressure to advance ethical standards across the financial sector. One outcome takes the form of mountains of clean-up legislation, including from Brussels.
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Country Report
SME Lending: Finance funds for business
Gilles Pouzin writes about the creation of a new fund designed to see institutional assets converted into loans for small French enterprises
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Asset Class Reports
European Venture Capital: Era of disruptive ventures
The use of disruptive technologies is opening up opportunities for European venture capital to build successful global companies
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Special Report
Investor case study: Fonditel
Fonditel is a curio in the Spanish savings market. With almost €3bn under management it is by far the largest funded company pension arrangement, for sponsor and owner Telefonica
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Country ReportPensions In Switzerland: Caught in an impasse
Swiss pension funds are still coming to terms with negative bond yields and uncertainty over the strength of the Swiss franc. Daniel Ben-Ami examines the considerable challenges they face
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Features
From Our Perspective: France rallies to the cause
Opposition to funded pensions has long been popular in France. Trade unions suspect that they will act as a Trojan horse for Anglo-Saxon capitalism and social welfare policy, which would undermine the country’s solidarity-based pension system. Politicians shy away from using terms like ‘pension funds’.
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Country Report
Pensions In France: Change of tack on pensions
French supplementary pension funds are to be freed from the capital requirements of Solvency II and brought under the IORP regime, writes Susanna Rust
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