All IPE articles in May 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Private Equity Fees: Standardisation still elusive
A string of initiatives has attempted to resolve the complexity and opacity of private equity fees. One of latest such initiatives has received mixed reviews from European investors
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Special Report
Special Report: A new energy economy
While it is reasonable to predict that the oil price will rebound in the second half of 2016, the collapse of the commodity that began in 2014 leaves a mark in investors’ consciousness
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Special Report
Driven by innovation
Perhaps no instruments reflect the diversity and innovation of the financial sector better than exchange-traded funds (ETFs). They are also now a firm fixture of pension fund investing, embraced by 37% of European institutional investors, as EDHEC-Risk’s latest survey shows.
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Country Report
Second Pillar: Technical difficulties
Despite the challenges facing Switzerland’s second-pillar pension the necessary overhaul of the system is still a long way off, says Barbara Ottawa
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Special Report
Interview: Denys Glushkov - Passive redux
For institutional investors trying to build a portfolio from the myriad smart beta ETFs providers are offering, the way forward might be a step back – to passive index investing.
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Features
Economics trumps demographics
The challenges facing Swiss pension funds owe more to economics and less to demography than is generally realised.
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Features
Up the knowledge curve
Public understanding of long-term investment can be limited. Repeated exercises in the Netherlands have shown that when pension fund members are asked about their investment-risk tolerance, they say they want a higher return and no risk
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Features
Focus Group: The importance of credit
Seventeen (71%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say that credit has become more important in their portfolio over the past five years
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Stretch and flex with credit
Years ago, people used to claim that the equity-risk premium was the most important metric in a pension fund’s long-term investment plans
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Special Report
Credit Outlook: Selective opportunities
Investors are re-examining credit fundamentals following the strong market gyrations of early 2016. But, as Joseph Mariathasan finds, there are still concerns about spread levels, liquidity and on-going concerns about the macroeconomic environment
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Country Report
Domestic investment: Returns, but at what cost?
Although Swiss pension funds have a low home bias, local investments still make up a substantial proportion of their portfolios
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Special Report
Private Debt Funds: The price of competition
Institutional investors’ hunt for yield has led to return compression in the private debt market. Emma Cusworth assesses the dynamics
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Special Report
Technology: Positive chemistry
Christopher O’Dea reports on how technology is transforming the energy sector
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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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Country Report
Energy Transition: TEEed up for change
A new law has forced climate change onto institutional investors’ agenda, says Susanna Rust
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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 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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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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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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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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