All IPE articles in October 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Features
Returns: Bonds boost interim results
Returns in the low single-digits were common across the northern European pensions landscape in the first half of 2016, as bonds rallied while equities slumped.
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Features
Research: The need for retirement bonds
Government-issued retirement bonds with a GDP-related coupon would help redress the savings imbalance by increasing government investment and mitigating the effects of quantative easing on pension funds, Jean Frijns, Theo van de Klundert and Anton van Nunen write
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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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Features
Governance Practices: Between rhetoric and reality
Without behavioural change, recent adaptations in the governance practices of European pension plans merely amount to re-spraying an old car when an entirely new model is needed, according to Sally Bridgeland and Amin Rajan
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Special Report
Emerging debt attractions
Institutional investors have under-invested in emerging market corporate debt so far, but Joseph Mariathasan finds the asset class’s attractive fundamentals mean this may change soon
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Special Report
German Asset Management: Investors climb the risk ladder
Continuing low interest rates are forcing investors to move further up the risk ladder in search of returns. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Special Report
German Asset Management: In the face of headwinds
Never before has the German institutional asset management industry faced headwinds such as those currently confronting it, writes Clemens Schuerhoff
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: TIAA Global Asset Management
TIAA has been on an expansion path in recent years. The organisation is now busy repositioning itself
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Features
Focus Group: Too much debt around
Just over half of the respondents to this month’s focus group are restructuring, or planning to restructure, their fixed-income portfolio. Of these, 10 are moving towards a more active management.
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Asset Class Reports
Investment Approaches: Reasons to be cheerful
With 30,000 potential stocks in the global equities universe, picking the right investment approach may be more important than the right manager, argues Joseph Mariathasan
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Features
Nordic Asset Allocation: Finding the answers from within
The increased use of internal investment resources by Nordic investors is a challenge for asset managers, according to Albert Løchte Jensen
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