All IPE articles in May 2016 (Magazine) – Page 4
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Special Report
Oil and gas woes fuel deal appetite
Energy price falls and financing pressures are attracting the attention of credit and hedge fund investors on the lookout for cheap energy assets, says Jennifer Bollen
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Country Report
Interview: André Tapernoux
Pension funds should be more realistic about evaluating liabilities, André Tapernoux tells Barbara Ottawa
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Special Report
Life in an alternative universe
Structural changes in pension fund asset and liability profiles are making alternative credit more attractive to pension funds. This is transforming fixed-income allocations as investors navigate a new universe and compete for scarce assets
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Start of a new era
INDEFI Market Research’s latest annual research on the French institutional market confirms the emergence of key trends for European asset management
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
The quite well anticipated easing from the European Central Bank (ECB), followed by the US Federal Reserve’s more surprising lowering of its expectation ‘dots’, proved supportive for risk assets as the first quarter of 2016 ended
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Special Report
Asset Allocation: Credit where credit’s due
Alex Koriath explores why and how pension funds may want to consider a diversified portfolio of credit strategies
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: The investment conundrum
Alan Porter argues that investors should favour businesses that prioritise long-term capital investment rather than simply seeking out those paying high dividends
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Special Report
An agile response to divergent policy
Divergent monetary policy activities by major central banks are having impacts right across yield curves. For investors, this means an agile investment strategy will be vital to the overall performance of their bond portfolio.
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Peter Kraneveld – International Pensions Adviser
“Let’s stop using the term de-risking altogether and use the right words for what we are doing”
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Special Report
Advanced engineering
Factor investing has powered the growth of generic smart beta strategies underlying the broad ETF market. But it is entering a new phase of development that is seeing institutional investors move from studying the approach to adopting tailored versions
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Special Report
Addressing current liquidity concerns
Two years ago, BlackRock’s chief executive Larry Fink warned that structural problems with leveraged ETFs had the potential one day to “blow up” the industry. While the alleged explosion hasn’t yet happened, does that mean the danger has gone away?
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Features
Accounting: Lease liabilities are real liabilities
Stephen Bouvier explores the implications for pension liabilities of the IASB’s new leasing standard
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Features
Proxy access: Flexing muscles
Big US public pension plans want listed companies to include shareholders’ director nominees in company proxy statements
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Special Report
EDHEC European ETF Survey 2015 – some key results
EDHEC Risk Institute conducted its ninth survey1 of European investment professionals on the usage and perceptions of ETFs at the end of 2015 with the support of Amundi ETF, Indexing & Smart Beta. EDHEC-Risk Institute’s ETF surveys now provide a continuous assessment of practices and views amongst professional investors since 2006.
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