All IPE articles in November 2018 (magazine)
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Special Report
Accounting standards: It’s all about perspective
Does IFRS 9 help or hinder long-term investment?
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Features
Accounting Matters: To virtually toss a coin, or not
Accountancy industry flummoxed by the existential status of computer code
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Special Report
Green growth at heart of EU agenda
A taxonomy for sustainable investments is a key element of expert proposals
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Special Report
Asset Allocation: Bumpy roads ahead
Investors see the outlook for the asset class as positive in the medium term but riskier in the short term
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: The risk premium of downturns
Alternative risk premia strategies can be helpful for institutional investor portfolios through diversification and risk reduction
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Features
Fixed income, rates, currencies: A hawkish Fed spooks all
Not many predicted the equity sell-off at the start of the fourth quarter, and there is still puzzlement as to what triggered it
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Allianz Global Investors
The debates over the failures of active managers and parallel growth of passive investment often neglect two important facts
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Country ReportAsset Allocation: Innovation for the future
Nordic institutions maintain an innovative diversification path
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Features
Liquid Alternatives: The long and the short of it
The long/short liquid alternatives universe is more hetreogenous than some realise
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Country Report
Change of focus at Apoteket fund
Gustav Karner cleans out old medicine at the pharmacy pension fund, as attention turns to cost cutting
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FeaturesMarket approaches nudged off course
Sweden’s experience with the Premium Pension system shows how arduous dismantling of poorly constructed architectures can be
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Special Report
Do asset managers have what it takes?
Integration is high on the agenda for most asset managers. What does it take to build truly sustainable portfolios?
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Features
Turkey: Rethinking auto-enrolment
Despite generous state incentives in the Turkish auto-enrolment system, opt-out rates are high
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InterviewsHow we run our money: ÄVWL
Christian Mosel, CEO of Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe, the pension fund for doctors in Germany’s Westphalia-Lippe region, talks about his old-fashioned approach to investment
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Special Report
Gender balance: what’s your excuse?
Investors should accept that there has been more than enough time to sensitise boards. Now is the time for brave leadership
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Features
Benchmarking: Redefining investment classes
A major GICS index methodology change seeks to reflect underlying market economics
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Opinion PiecesLetter from Brussels: Brussels seeks to bolster secondary market in non-performing loans
Are non-peforming loans an investor’s dream come true? Or do they represent immeasurable risks?
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Special Report
Convertible Bonds: Just the ticket
US convertible bonds have come into their own in the low-interest-rate environment
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Country ReportNordic Region: Shifting borders
Is the Nordic dream of a unified Danish-Swedish pensions market over?
