All IPE articles in October 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Special Report
US Bonds: The only game in town
The US bond market is benefiting from negative interest rates in Europe and elsewhere. Christopher O’Dea reports
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Special Report
Corporate Bonds: Investment-grade boost
Central bank action in the UK and euro-zone has boosted the investment-grade corporate bond market. Lynn Strongin Dodds examines whether this can continue
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Special Report
New rules for Spezialfonds: Pandora’s box of opportunities
New rules for Spezialfonds lending could be a huge boost to Germany’s chronically underfunded infrastructure sector, says Thomas Richter
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A vision for cross-border workers
A former director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP) has proposed a new option for occupational pensions that could help the large number of workers whose careers take them across EU internal borders.
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Features
Value Chain: A price worth paying
A better investment value chain would involve lower short-term profitability for providers in return for greater long-term sustainability of relationships, according to Tim Hodgson
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Special Report
Universal-Investment: Weathering the challenges
Markus Neubauer examines how the clients of the Master-KAG provider Universal-Investment are managing their portfolios
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Asset Class Reports
Equity Dividends: Default risk changes landscape
The prospect of government defaults should lead pension schemes to review their approach to liability-driven investment
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Special Report
Church of England: Showing faith in private debt
Gail Moss explains why the Church of England Pensions Board is putting its faith in the US private-debt sector
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Country Report
Portugal: An eye on European clouds
Against a backdrop of a steadily recovering domestic economy, private pension funds in Portugal have maintained stable asset allocations over the past year
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Features
A dollar decline is overdue
For anyone who follows currency trends, and indeed asset markets more generally, the triennial survey from the Bank for International Settlements is invaluable
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Features
Diary of an Investor: At the high table
Recently, I was invited to join a network of financial academics as a ‘practice adviser’, which means I speak to them regularly about the challenges our pension fund faces and what we are doing in the investment portfolio.
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Features
Risk: Plane disaster lesson for investors
Stephan Lods says analysing decisions that led to a 1977 airline disaster could help investors better understand risk
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Special Report
Special Report Fixed Income Strategy: No more easy gains
What started as an emergency measure looks like it has become a permanent state of affairs.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pension equities ebb
The defined benefit (DB) pension funds of the companies in the S&P 500 index are in deficit. At December 2015, these were $376.6bn (€337bn) underfunded, according to Citigroup’s chief US equity strategist Tobias Levkovich.
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Special Report
UK embraces multi-asset
While multi-asset fixed income strategies have been popular in the UK for some time, European investors are only just beginning to take notice, says Charlotte Moore
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Asset Class Reports
Valuations: Emerging from the wings
Against a backdrop of lacklustre growth in the developed world, emerging markets are beginning to find favour again with investors
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Features
Hedge Funds: Seeding to enhance returns
Institutional investors face challenging allocation decisions in the current low-yield environment. Mark de Klerk explores how seeding could enhance returns of a hedge fund allocation
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Features
Research: Retirement Income - How much is enough?
Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald outlines a new approach to the calculation of retirement income adequacy
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Interviews
On the Record: What is the role of equities in your portfolio?
Three pension funds - Inarcassa, Publica and Santander UK Group Pension Scheme Common Fund - discuss the equities balance
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Asset Class Reports
Global Equities: The search for global opportunities
Finding attractive companies in the current market environment is no easy matter even within the entire universe of global equities
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