All IPE articles in October 2013 (Magazine)
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Features
Actuaries in business
Liam Kennedy asked Jonathan Punter and Stuart Southall about their careers as actuaries, entrepreneurs and dealmakers in the world of UK pensions
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Opinion Pieces
Per Linnemann - Independent consulting actuary
“Smoothed income annuities could revive the pension fund industry”
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Asset Class Reports
Sovereign Bonds: Yielding more questions than answers
Some see recent bond-market sell-offs as the start of the long-awaited bear market in bonds – or at least a ‘normalisation’ of rates, while others point sceptically to weak global growth
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Features
Phoenix from the ashes
Antoni Canals tells Nina Roehrbein about his views on diversification at Pensions Caixa 30, one of Spain’s most diversified occupational pension funds
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Special Report
German Asset Management: Seeking urgent clarification
New regulations on credit ratings due diligence could prove challenging for investors and asset managers alike, according to Nina Roehrbein
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Special Report
German Asset Management: One step at a time
Nina Roehrbein outlines institutional investors’ asset allocation intentions and behaviour
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Special Report
German Asset Management: Defiant growth in the face of hostile legislation
Germany’s Spezialfonds have survived the latest legislative challenge of incorporation within the legislation implementing AIFMD, writes Till Entzian. They remain institutional investors’ preferred vehicle with record inflows in 2012 and AUM that should soon cross the €1trn mark
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Special Report
German Asset Management: Stepping out in new shoes
Nina Roehrbein asked Michael Fuss about the latest reorganisation of Deutsche Bank’s asset management activities
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Special Report
Real Assets: The ultimate real asset?
Daniel Ben-Ami considers the fundamentals behind gold and what they mean for its role as a portfolio allocation
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Interviews
Do you invest in real assets?
Nina Röhrbein speaks with France’s ERAFP, Denmark’s PFA and the Netherlands’ PGGM
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Special Report
Real Assets: The real risk from real assets
What is a ‘real asset’? And why would an investor want it?
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Special Report
Real Assets: Sheltering under a roof
Property is limited in its ability to hedge inflation but it can certainly play a role. Rachel Fixsen and Lynn Strongin Dodds report on the diverse strategies to consider
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Special Report
Real Assets: Pricing powers
Jennifer Bollen explores claims that infrastructure can offset inflation and asks if infrastructure portfolios can be optimised to protect against inflation
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Special Report
Real Assets: Seeing the forest for the trees
A slow housing market during the financial crisis certainly hacked away some of timber’s appeal. But Joel Kranc finds that the long-term potential remains strong
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Special Report
Real Assets: Performing in the real world
How well have direct investments in real assets performed over the long term? Martijn Cremers outlines the latest research, and challenges some assumptions about inflation protection and diversification
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Special Report
Real Assets: A raw deal from raw materials?
Poor performance is causing some investors to question why they got involved in commodities. But Martin Steward finds that now could be just the wrong time to sell
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Special Report
Real Assets: Staying tuned
Martin Steward found a different take on recent investor mood music around the asset class and a robust case for allocation when he spoke to one of the largest commodities managers
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Special Report
Real Assets: Price to earnings
Helen Fowler looks at how an equity portfolio could be optimsed for inflation sensitivity
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Special Report
Real Assets: Understanding inflation shocks
Kurt Winkelmann and Raghu Suryanarayanan model asset returns under inflation shocks as a first step to designing genuinely inflation-sensitive portfolios – itself the first step towards broader macro-sensitive portfolios
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Special Report
Real Assets: No real growth
In the aftermath of QE, inflation-plus multi-asset funds seemed like an idea whose time had come. Charlotte Moore asks why they failed to catch on
