All IPE articles in November 2016 (Magazine)
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Special Report
The rise of the renminbi
Joseph Mariathasan discusses the rise of the renminbi with Prof Eswar Prasad of Cornell University
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Country Report
Pensions In Switzerland: Parliamentary ping pong
A political stalemate is holding up Switzerland’s Altersvorsorge 2020 pensions reform package. And now time is running out, as Barbara Ottawa finds
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Special Report
Risk parity post-Brexit
Despite the increase in risk in many asset classes from a year ago, risk parity funds have weathered this summer’s volatile markets
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Features
Regulatory monoculture and systemic risk
What is the connection between tropical fruit and systemic risk? In 1990, when East German citizens demonstrated for freedom and democracy, the banana became a potent symbol of the basic level of prosperity to which they aspired
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Features
Regulation: Pension funds join fray on systemic risk
The consultation by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on its proposals to address structural vulnerabilities for asset management activities has set off a skirmish between those institutions wanting mandatory stress-tests to include pension and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), and those that do not.
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Features
UK's LPGS: Mixed reviews for final regulations
Guidance on new investment regulations for UK local government pension schemes (LPGS) has been welcomed for changing the course of asset pooling “for the better”
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Endowment rethink
Should other university endowments follow the Yale model or is it time to rethink how they invest and take a simpler approach, such as an indexed 60/40 portfolio? That is the big question for NP ‘Narv’ Narvekar, who becomes the CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) in December.
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Features
Emerging markets make no sense
After poor performances over the past three years, which led to large outflows, EM assets are finding their way back into institutional portfolios
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you rebuilding your emerging market portfolio?
Three pension funds - Ericsson pensionsstiftelse, Linde and Previp - discuss their emerging market exposure
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected EM equity funds to macro factors
The chart data shows the sensitivity of the five largest actively managed emerging markets equity funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: dollar trade-weighted index, global inflation, crude oil and global default spreads
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Features
Focus Group: Warm on EM investment
Just three of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group have increased their allocation to emerging and frontier markets in the past three years
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Features
How we run our money: Unilever Dutch pension funds
Rob Kragten, CEO, and Michael Kaal, director of finance and risk at the Unilever Dutch pension funds, tell Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about risk management and collective defined contribution
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Features
Securities Lending: More work to be done
Brian Bollen examines the resilience of securities lending as it evolves to meet new challenges and demands in the financial industry
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Special Report
Testing the value of diversified growth
Anthony Harrington finds managers keen to emphasise the robustness of the diversified growth concept following criticism from the likes of Willis Towers Watson
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Features
Diary of an Investor: War stories
Last month I joined our co-operation partners at PensionKøbenhavn in Copenhagen for a private round table of institutional investors discussing real assets
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: The lost decades
Evidence is emerging that the oil and gas sector knew about the risks of climate change for 40 years and buried this information. Had the world started decarbonising earlier, we could have done more to protect biodiversity and human life
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Features
Switzerland's pensions debate: Negative for longer
Switzerland is engaged in a debate not just about its pension reforms, but also wider issues of intergenerational fairness and the stability of the second-pillar pension system
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Features
Commodity prices on the rebound
After hitting a low earlier this year, are commodity prices on the brink of a sustained rise? Daniel Ben-Ami investigates
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Asset Class Reports
The impact of shifting commodity prices
Rising commodity prices are good news for commodity exporters but Rodrigo Amaral finds they can even benefit importers
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Chris Curry - Pensions Policy Institute
The pensions world is constantly changing. In the UK, more DC savers, coupled with recently introduced flexibility of access, will increase the levels of risk and complexity for many