All IPE articles in May 2017 (Magazine) – Page 3
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Special Report
Global Defined Contribution: Targeting the right glidepath
Christopher O’Dea finds defined contribution pension sponsors are increasingly looking for more flexibility in target-date funds to cope with changing worker demographics
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Gaining currency as a risk control
Lynn Strongin Dodds finds that worries about currency risk are leading investors to consider factor-based approach when investing in foreign exchange markets
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Features
Creative destruction is needed
The current vogue for optimism about the prospects for the developed economies is overdone. There may be a slight cyclical upturn but its significance is limited
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Special Report
The great factor debate
Daniel Ben-Ami examines a key question that is too often neglected: why does factor investing work?
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Looking the part
We at Wasserdicht Pension Funds have been using BIG Asset Management for what seems like an eternity. I have learned two things about BIG over the years
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Features
Discount Rates: An exercise of judgement
A pension fund sponsor in Ecuador has raised an important point about IAS 19 discount rates, reports Stephen Bouvier
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Features
Global Economy: Is growth optimism justified?
Daniel Ben-Ami finds that while there are signs that the global economy might be bouncing back, doubts are being raised by the weakness of the recovery
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Special Report
Full of EM promise
David Turner finds elements of factor investing that could make the strategy ideal for emerging markets
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Special Report
Listed Equity: The five tests of impact
Andrew Parry argues that five key tests should be applied to public market investments before they can be termed impact investments
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Special Report
Listed Equity: A public role
New indices and ETFs apply impact investment to liquid equities. But corporate reporting and investor focus are central, according to Liam Kennedy
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Special ReportSpecial Report Factor Investing: Meeting expectations
It is important to have realistic expectations about what factor investment can deliver
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A risk-reducing factor
Many factor investors use timing as a way to reduce risks, writes David Turner
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Interviews
Focus Group: Risk-factor strategies in favour
Over three-quarters of the respondents to this month’s Focus Group are allocated to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts, with four of these considering further allocations
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Special Report
McKnight Foundation: Sticking to impact
Christopher O’Dea speaks to the McKnight Foundation of Minnesota about its $200m commitment to impact investment strategies
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Country ReportPensions In France: Why make it simple?
French pension schemes are up in arms over plans for a decree they say imposes harmful constraints on how they manage their assets. Susanna Rust reports
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Special Report
A new frontier?
Everyone seems to want to talk about investing for impact these days. But a lack of a common understanding can make this difficult, according to Susanna Rust
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Special ReportGreen growth
High levels of green bond issuance have sparked investor interest and spawned funds and strategies, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Risk transfer hots up
With interest rates rising, the US pension risk transfer market is expected to grow substantially
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InterviewsHow we run our money: Varma
Reima Rytsölä, CIO of Finnish pension fund Varma, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo why it makes sense to keep an allocation to hedge funds
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Special ReportSpecial Report: Investing for Impact
Although relatively new, impact investing is still the term that has been around the longest to describe investing with the explicit purpose of achieving positive non-financial impacts in addition to financial gain
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