All IPE articles in October 2025 (online)
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator – October 2025: Views converge amid uncertainty
Though very few analysts expect equities and bonds to fall across the board, with the exception of Japan, the ‘neutral’ vote is very high
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Opinion PiecesUK pensions and private markets: the Mansion House Accord’s promise and perils
The task of channeling more UK DC pension savings towards domestic private markets is fraught with institutional, regulatory and cultural obstacles
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AnalysisDeepSeek and beyond: how China can crash America’s AI party
China’s equity markets have rallied over the past few months, triggered by the release of DeepSeek’s open-source AI model
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Opinion PiecesTrump opens US DC market to alternatives
Private markets managers in the US have set their sights on a $3.5trn (€3trn) opportunity
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AnalysisChart watch: Buffet Indicator, inflation expectations, gloomy German corporates
Manufacturing is expanding in the US, bond market volatility is lower, but sentiment is deteriorating in Germany, the UK and China
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AnalysisFixed income, rates, currencies: US heads for soft-landing
The US economy is on course to avoid a recession, thanks to the Fed’s clever tactics, but the effects of tariffs have yet to feed through
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AnalysisMacro focus: the new shape of economic recovery in the post-Covid world
The effects of the global recession caused by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic are lingering, as seen by the uneven patterns of consumer spending
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NewsState Street and Van Lanschot Kempen form ETF, client solutions partnership
The two firms will explore opportunities to combine Van Lanschot Kempen’s active management capabilities with State Street IM’s ETF platform
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NewsSwiss pension funds hit by Nestlé slump and equity home bias
PPCmetrics shows that Swiss pension funds have invested CHF11bn – or 1.3% of total assets of CHF909bn – in Nestlé, more than any other single company
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NewsKPN pension fund invests €300m in private impact loans
M&G will manage the mandate, which will be at least 45% directed towards impact investments aligned with the fund’s climate, technology and consumption themes
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NewsABP divests from UN-listed companies involved with Israeli settlements
The €520bn Dutch civil service scheme sold its €65m stake in Booking.com and €368m stake in Caterpillar, a supplier of armoured bulldozers to the Israeli army
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NewsAP3 sticks with Blackrock despite alliance exits, but manages own voting
Swedish national pensions buffer fund warns of unintended consequences of EU’s drive for simpler sustainability reporting
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NewsPeople moves: SuMi Trust names new president and CEO
Plus: Lothian Pension Fund appoints CFO; USS selects group general counsel
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AnalysisSingapore’s Temasek looks to the future as economic headwinds intensify
The $434bn state-owned investment fund is reorganising, in preparation for the potentially troubled times ahead
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NewsPension funds join call for EU to uphold methane regulation
€4.5trn group – which includes AP3, NEST, Railpen and Church of England Pensions Board – expresses concern methane rules could get caught up in the bloc’s simplification agenda
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NewsSwiss public pension funds welcome legal changes on defining benefits
The change in law aims to restore competition between private and public pension funds
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NewsRow erupts over imminent merger of Sweden’s pension buffer funds
Two Gothenburg-based funds, AP6 and AP2, disagree on how the smaller fund should be integrated into the larger
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: SeLFIES (on mobile phones) for the self-employed
An innovative bond pioneered by Brazil could help fix the self-employment pension problem in the EU and the UK
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NewsGermany’s WIN-Initiative deploys first start-up investments
Some signatories have already implemented investments committed up to 2030 above their original targets, says state-owned development bank KfW
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NewsPME, PFZW are latest funds to sell stocks linked to Israel human rights violations
The two Dutch pension schemes recently divested from Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia and Motorola
