All IPE articles in October 2015 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Millennials: Cafe culture comes to Wall Street
Millennials are already changing the face of business and lifestyle. Christopher O’Dea looks at how this new-technology era is affecting economies and investment
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Special Report
Euro-zone Outlook: Buffeted by headwinds
The outlook for Europe’s bond markets cannot be separated from the situation in the wider world, says Caroline Hay
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Opinion PiecesLetter from Brussels: Pressure builds on tax havens
Brussels’ financial focus is on aggressive corporate tax planning and the related question of tax havens. This concerns the hedge fund ‘passport’ rights to do business across the EU and compliance of the offshore jurisdictions where they are domiciled to EU norms.
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Special Report
Interview: State Street & SSGA - A bet on pensions growth
International providers have long seen Germany as an attractive market. State Street opened an office in 1970, while State Street Global Advisors has had a presence since 1998
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: From small beginnings
The US private retirement annuity market is quite small. But it is likely to grow dramatically thanks to the convergence of various factors
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Features
Fighting a losing battle?
The Swedish government has been considering the future of its AP Fund system since 2011 but, until recently, with little discernible progress
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Features
US Illiquid Credit: Bankers by default
Structural changes in banking, regulation and low interest rates are transforming the illiquid loans market
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Features
From our perspective: Back to the future?
IPE’s 18-year history has been one of the expansion of funded pension systems. While countries like France have held out in favour of répartition, others have expanded the development of funded pension systems
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Features
Interview: Rolling back the barriers
Liam Kennedy discusses the role of research in institutional investment with Noël Amenc, who stepped down as director of the EDHEC-Risk Institute earlier this year
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Philip Neyt - Belgian Association of Pension Institutions
Notwithstanding further reforms, most EU member states have improved the efficiency and financial affordability of their first-pillar pension systems
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Special Report
Pension Assets: Measuring the pension world
Pension funds diversify their investments more widely than the average German institutional investor and have restructured their portfolios significantly in recent years
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Special Report
German Asset Management: In search of opportunities
Institutions are looking for opportunities to invest in infrastructure but the political and regulatory framework is hindering domestic allocations
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Features
Asset Management: Expectations coming down to earth
In this final article on a new study, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that the tail winds from quantitative easing (QE) will be easing noticeably
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Features
Nordic investors change approach
Market volatility and the pursuit of yield have been a concern for pension funds since the 2008 market crash. But while the end of 2014 saw solid equity returns and fixed income holdings artificially inflated by lower yields, the first six months of 2015 saw markets hit by uncertainty
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Special Report
APK Pensionskasse: Bond risks revisited
Austria’s APK has found new ways to better assess risks in its fixed-income portfolio, Barbara Ottawa finds
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Amundi
Perhaps one of the greatest lessons of the 2007-08 period for institutional investors was about liquidity. Equity markets dropped precipitously and credit spreads widened, while liquidity in safe-haven assets dried up and other instruments became impossible to trade
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Features
Smart Beta Investing: A wealth of ambiguities
Separation of smart beta strategy development from index implementation makes it unclear who is accountable from a fiduciary perspective, argues Jeremy Baskin
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Another summer passes with huge market moves and chaotic trading days. China’s stock markets ‘wobbles’ are still ongoing, and while emerging markets – especially in Asia – are still being sorely buffeted, more developed markets have attained some degree of calm.
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Interviews
On the Record: Are you restructuring your fixed income allocation?
Three pension funds - ÄVWL, PP Pension and Sparinstitutens Pensionkassa - talk about their fixed income portflolios
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Special Report
Asset Allocation: A need for innovative diffusion
Casper Hammerich outlines key findings on asset allocation and investment trends from conversations with the some of the most influential institutional investors in Germany
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