All IPE articles in November 2009 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Interviews
Hedge fund hermeneutics
Although pension funds and their consultants are weaning themselves off their obsession with three-year track records, few would choose to park $1.3bn with a brand new fund of hedge funds – even if its founding partners bring two decades of experience from hedge fund stalwarts like Olympia, Pioneer and Momentum.
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Special Report
ESG concerns for cash funds
SRI money market funds might be growing in popularity, but levels of screening and transparency can leave a lot to be desired, find Dominique Blanc and Caroline Estimé
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Opinion Pieces
Pensions re-think
As the drive to reform private pensions in the US gathers pace, features of the UK’s forthcoming personal accounts system – which includes mandatory automatic enrolment, prohibition of fund withdrawal and the mandatory annuitisation of benefits – could be adopted in the US. One of the US lawmakers pushing in this direction is George Miller, Democrat Representative for California, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.
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Features
Sorry, we forgot
At IASB’s July staff meeting on pensions, two concerns sprang to mind. One was the risk of too many cooks spoiling the broth. The other was that in addition to the other woes that have plagued her project, senior project manager Anne McGeachin has had human resource management added to the list.
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Features
Essential governance
Gail Moss presents IPE’s guide to pension fund governance and how to do it better
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Special Report
An emerging prospect
Pension funds investing in microfinance should take a patient and responsible approach to their investments, says Ivo Knoepfel
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Features
Easy riders
Portfolios of minimum variance stocks appear to reproduce a true risk factor beta that can outperform cap-weighted benchmarks. Martin Steward asks why no-one uses them in the real world
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Country Report
Wag the dog
Liam Kennedy spoke with the chief executive of the UK’s NAPF, Joanne Segars, about pensions, lobbying and the association’s ideas for optional indexation H
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Simple train of thought
Yesterday we had an ‘aha’ moment. Our departmental assistant, Maria, wondered why we were all doing so much. “Equities, government bonds, corporate bonds, property, currency, commodities, hedge funds, I don’t know how you keep track all of this.
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Special Report
Evolution of global super deals
A new type of super-size mandate is emerging and the custody industry needs to respond to a new set of challenges, writes Iain Morse
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Special Report
Hedge cuttings
Hedge fund beta products and hedge fund indices potentially offer cheaper and more transparent access to the industry’s key strategies and exposures. Beverly Chandler assesses the options
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Asset Class ReportsSanctuary in the crisis
Emerging market debt has had a good crisis and is now firmly established in the mainstream. But, as Joseph Mariathasan finds, the complex matrix of exposures it represents raises the question of whether it is one asset class or many, and demands a properly considered allocation process
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Country ReportA time of radical changes
Jan Willers outlines some of the key findings of the fourth Nordic Investor Survey of Copenhagen-based Kirstein Finans, including muted interest in international diversification due to solvency concerns
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Special Report
Asia’s green fields of promise
Stimulus packages are helping spur green investments in Asian companies, which already have many advantages over their Western counterparts, including good access to capital and cheaper labour costs, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Home advantage
Last year’s equity sell-off interrupted Nordic investors’ progress towards more international exposure, but there are good reasons to like this home bias anyway, writes Martin Steward
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Features
Cautious about alternatives
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at alternative investments.
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