All IPE articles in November 2012 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Opinion Pieces
Can PE save the world?
When private equity players come together to discuss how to be more responsible, that is noteworthy.
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Features
Taking the sting out of the tendering process
Tendering for a new investment consultant – or indeed, tendering to fill any soon-to-be-vacant position – using the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) can cause the more than 100 local authority pension funds in the UK a lot of pain, according to Nicola Mark, head of the £2bn (€2.4bn) Norfolk Pension Fund.
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FeaturesWhat makes a skilful portfolio manager?
Ignore the sales pitches, advises Rick Di Mascio. Successful managers simply get more decisions right than wrong, and make sure their hits make more money than their misses lose
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Features
In the laboratory
It’s a good rule in life to learn from the mistakes of others if you can. So what could the board of a brand new pension fund learn from others to make sure its internal design and external relationships are as robust as possible?
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Features
Portfolio impact
Gail Moss outlines the concept of impact investing and how it relates to mission-based investing, which is often used in the foundation sector
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Features
Timelines: Forewarned is forearmed
On 2 October, when the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) submitted its technical standards to the European Commission on the conduct of the quantitative exercise for the revised IORP Directive, a number of concerns were raised within the pensions industry.
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Features
Fighting talk
Pension funds see remuneration from two different but uniquely intertwined perspectives. As institutional investors, they are under increasing pressure to hold companies, including banks, to account over executive pay.
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Features
Shock factor
Liam Kennedy spoke with Theo Kocken and Kerrin Rosenberg about pensions, behavioural finance and a new definition of fairness
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Jam today
A low-yielding environment makes an increasingly powerful case for dividend income in pension portfolios, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: One world
The convergence of emerging and developed markets argues for integrated global portfolios. But Joseph Mariathasan finds that investors taking this approach could miss out on the best opportunities
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Three of a kind
Martin Steward finds three managers exploiting three major investment themes in three different ways
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Features
From ugly duckling to swan
Michael Kjeller of KPA Pension tells Nina Röhrbein about his fund’s transformation
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Features
Money doesn’t grow on trees
Every child has heard similar words. You want that delicious-looking cake? A new toy? “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”
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Special Report
Risk Managed Equities: The funding dilemma
With its desire to de-risk and its growing deficit, the Strathclyde Pension Fund is one of many ideal candidates for the risk-managed equities experiment. Martin Steward reports on its plans
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Rear-view mirror
A couple of weeks ago I made my way to Amsterdam’s Beurs van Beurlage for a festive evening, the annual dinner of the Dutch Committee of Institutional Investors. It’s always a good occasion to catch up with old friends, even if you’d rather give some of the guests a wide berth.
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Interviews
Cutting through the noise
“There is almost universal agreement that the world needs long-term investors and, indeed, that short-termism is bad,” says Keith Skeoch, CEO of Standard Life Investments (SLI), addressing a room of European finance journalists at its Edinburgh offices. “And the reason short-termism is perceived as bad is that the charge sheet is long and serious.”
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Special Report
Currency Management: Yen and now
Through the 1990s and most of the 2000s the Japanese yen funded a host of the world’s most lucrative carry trades. Daniel Ben-Ami examines whether recent fixes mean that the euro has already shuffled off its role as ‘the yen for the 2010s’
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Special ReportCurrency Management: Still overpaying for FX?
An agency approach to FX execution promises substantial savings. Lloyd Raynor suggests that it is time to give this area more attention
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Special Report
Currency Management: More than one way to play the renminbi
Theory and history suggest that China’s currency should appreciate along with its economic growth. But Charlotte Moore finds investors looking for other routes besides the fast-growing ‘dim-sum’ market
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Features
A cross-border story
Iain Morse reviews Ireland’s custody market as it wakes up to fund rationalisation and thinner margins
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