All IPE articles in November 2016 (Magazine) – Page 3

  • Features

    Regulation: Pension funds join fray on systemic risk

    November 2016 (Magazine)

    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. 

  • Under strain
    Features

    Regulatory monoculture and systemic risk

    November 2016 (Magazine)

    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

  • Special Report

    Risk parity post-Brexit

    November 2016 (Magazine)

    Despite the increase in risk in many asset classes from a year ago, risk parity funds have weathered this summer’s volatile markets

  • Instead of sound and light displays, the Swiss Parliament should be resolving the delays to Altersvorsorge 2020
    Country Report

    Pensions In Switzerland: Parliamentary ping pong

    November 2016 (Magazine)

    A political stalemate is holding up Switzerland’s Altersvorsorge 2020 pensions reform package. And now time is running out, as Barbara Ottawa finds 

  • Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi
    Special Report

    The rise of the renminbi

    November 2016 (Magazine)

    Joseph Mariathasan discusses the rise of the renminbi with Prof Eswar Prasad of Cornell University