All IPE articles in October 2018 (magazine) – Page 3
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Special ReportFactor investing & smart beta: What’s in a name?
Many smart beta ETFs are bought with the expectation of long-term market outperformance. The factors that many are based on have been proven both academically and empirically to produce excess returns
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Special ReportFactor investing & smart beta: The smart beta (r)evolution
The ability of stocks with certain investment characteristics to outperform the market has been well understood and documented for decades. But options of how to implement this strategy were limited
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FeaturesTime to beef up UK supervision
With assets of in excess of £1.8trn, DB occupational pensions easily represent the single largest stock of financial savings in the UK
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Special ReportSpecial Report Asia: Game-changer
China’s growing clout in Asia is influencing investment strategies across the region
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Asset Class Reports
Small Cap Versus Private Equity: Separate arguments
Comparisons of the performance of listed smaller companies and private equity are fraught with difficulty
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Special ReportGerman Asset Management: A larger appetite for ESG
How German asset managers are taking up the cudgels as demand for ESG approaches continues to grow
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Analysis
Portfolio Analysis: Back to the old world
Universal-Investment’s Spezialfonds data shows how German institutional investors are navigating the current market environment
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Features
Fixed income, Rates, Currencies: America leads the way
Emerging markets have endured a difficult summer. Market sensitivities were heightened by fears of a trade war and the reality that the US Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates. The flashpoints in Argentina and Turkey have focused attention on the EM universe, particularly the more vulnerable economies with less healthy fundamentals.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from Brussels: Focus on pension products and supervision ahead of elections
Tensions are rising in Brussels as the EU institutional mandate approaches its end ahead of the Parliamentary elections in May 2019, and the Commission has already ceased issuing new proposals in the absence of legislative time.
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FeaturesAhead of the Curve: Trends to heed in renewables
Big data and predictive analytics are two developing trends that can dramatically improve how renewable energy investments are made
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Special Report
Factor investing & smart beta: Advances in factor-based fixed income indices
Global fixed income investors have benefited from a long bull market that began in the early 1990s
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Special Report
The market: M&A activity in European ETFs
The European ETF industry is still relatively youthful compared with its US counterpart, but already there have been significant mergers and acquisitions
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Special ReportImplementation: The future is active
While passive ETFs continue to dominate flows, active ETFs are one of the factors that will drive further growth in the sector
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Features
Accounting Matters: Drawing a line in the sand
Standard setters’ focus on risk-sharing pensions recalls previous abandoned attempts to reconcile non-DB and DC accounting approaches
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Special Report
Implementation: Five myths about ETFs debunked
Over the years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted their fair share of criticism from market participants, regulators and investors
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Special Report
Spezialfonds: Assets approach €1.5trn
Securities Spezialfonds assets are approaching a €1.5trn high water mark
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