All IPE articles in November 2013 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Commanding heights
Jean-Pierre Couture makes the case for top-down investing in an era of ‘de-globalisation’
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Features
A new chapter
Martin Steward speaks to Cecila Thomasson Blomquist at PP Pension, whose DB business relies on dynamic asset allocation around a solid real estate core, and whose DC business is undergoing major changes
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Special Report
Currency Management: Keep calm and carry on?
Consultants hope that a healthy volatility is returning to FX markets to lure back pension funds, writes Angela Henshall. But does the strategy debate still need to move on?
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Features
Bring on the lawyers
A recent legal opinion on behalf of UK local authority pension funds has ignited controversy, according to Stephen Bouvier
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Features
The correlation breakdown is secure
You may have heard option traders talk about the ‘volatility smile’. Recent events might add a new term to the traders’ lexicon: the ‘risk-free yield curve smile’.
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Opinion Pieces
A Lithuanian bottleneck
Yet another Brussels go-slow on IORP II legislative revisions? Yes, but it’s not just rules for occupational pensions. A let’s-put-off-until-tomorrow syndrome is hammering swathes of financial legislation and the Brussels machine is now close to deadlock.
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Features
Too big to fall short?
A new government has broadened the mandate of the Norwegian sovereign pension fund. Nina Röhrbein assesses the changes
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Special Report
Currency Management: Below the volatility surface
Lorenzo Naranjo and Carmen Stefanescu discuss the value of extracting foreign exchange rate expectations from FX option prices
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: Eye of the beholder
Joseph Mariathasan looks into the debate around how best to calculate the fundamental value of companies and markets
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A dwindling band
Finland’s government is looking to improve the regulatory framework for corporate pension funds, according to Reeta Paakkinen
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Features
Currency Management: Awkward guidance
Anthony Harrington listens to currency managers’ frustrations as US dollar certainties melt into fog from the Fed
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Slow progress on AP
Sweden is making slow but steady progress in its overhaul of the AP buffer funds, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A shift to alternatives
Nina Röhrbein reviews recent Nordic institutional investor mandates
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Features
The age of the default fund
UK DC pensions will see a boost in members and assets as auto-enrolment kicks in over the coming years. Sally Ling looks at best practice for governance and default funds
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Features
African ESG dilemmas
This year’s Principles for Responsible Investment in Person conference in Cape Town, South Africa, focused on two things – ESG issues and Africa.
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Features
Change is afoot in the corridors of Brussels
Not a month goes by now, it seems, without some new major development in EU policy. First came the final reporting guidelines for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in September.
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Features
Adding the best of DB to DC plans
In the final article in the current series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that despite the demise of DB plans, the baby is unlikely to be thrown away with the bath water
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Interviews
Have you adapted your emerging markets strategy recently?
EM market turmoil is no game changer
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Opinion Pieces
Activist stances
US public pension funds are slowly recovering from their worst years, 2008-09, when their assets fell to a low of $2.1trn (€1.6trn). In the latest fiscal year ending 30 June 2013, assets increased 8.4%
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