All IPE articles in October 2016 (Magazine) – Page 3

  • Features

    Asset Allocation: The big picture

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    Eight years since the banking system threatened collapse, financial markets are still dominated by central banks. Though macro fundamentals, and geopolitics, still have the capacity to influence flows, interest rates are largely being driven by the central banks’ actions.

  • Features

    Ahead of the Curve: Time to embrace robots?

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    Robotics and automation are no longer sci-fi, they are a fast-growing and profitable sector, say Johan Van Der Biest and Rudi Van den Eynde

  • Opinion Pieces

    Guest Viewpoint: Peter Kraneveld - International Pensions Adviser

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    Pension funds are not about politics, but their investment portfolios include political risk

  • Opinion Pieces

    Long-Term Matters - Addicted to dumb ideas

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    With the UK retailer Sports Direct in the news, it is worth recalling what one large investor said only 12 months ago

  • Features

    Pensions Accounting: Numerology signals

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    Seventy. Zero. Minus-80. We are probably going to be seeing and hearing a lot about those numbers in the coming weeks. Just as 666 is said to represent The Beast, 70, zero and minus-80 look set to epitomise monster pension deficits and the dawning chasm between IAS 19 scheme deficits and the reality of stewarding a pension scheme.

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    Country Report

    Pensions Caixa 30: Risk-reduction exercise

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    Gail Moss finds out what Spain’s biggest corporate pension scheme has been doing to reduce risk in its investment portfolio

  • Features

    Danish Reform: The 2025 Plan

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    The government of Denmark – a country ranked, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pensions index, as having the best pension system in the world – is planning to push funded pensions coverage into new territory.

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    Features

    IPE Expectations Indicator October 2016

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    The current survey period captured the end of the summer. The number of managers voicing concern about interest rate policy is high. However, the current environment has yet to reflect the alarms of many major investors and the survey results indicate most managers expect little dramatic near-term movement. Whether it is not yet the season for action, or investors expect the status quo to continue, is yet unclear.

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    Features

    ESG: Green bonds get G20 boost

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    The green bond market has had a strong run in the wake of the December 2015 Paris climate-change agreement

  • Special Report

    Kandlbinder 2016: Spezialfonds inflows top €100bn

    October 2016 (Magazine)

    Till Entzian surveys Germany’s €1.3trn Spezialfonds market, which saw record inflows over the course of 2015