All IPE articles in September 2009 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
A deeper shade of green
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds’ integration of ESG.
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Country Report
De-risking redefined
The new importance of bond yields for UK schemes’ solvency underlines the re-thinking of liability-driven investing, bond mandates and the need for tactical decision making, finds Martin Steward
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Job security
Off to Zurich for a day with my colleagues from around Europe. The English talk ‘brainstorming’ and think ‘outside the box’ but we on the continent want to avoid storms.
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Special Report
ESG as a legal obligation?
The UN’s Fiduciary II aims to take ESG integration to the next stage, while a shift in US policy is pushing demographic concerns up the agenda. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Special Report
The price of everything but the value of nothing
Market volatility and shaky counterparties have focused attention on valuation methodologies and the data underpinning them, finds Brian Bollen
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Features
Future foundation
Liam Kennedy discussed the investment philosophy of Germany’s VolkswagenStiftung with its CIO, Dieter Lehmann
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Features
Leading fund strategies
Nina Röhrbein outlines leading European pension funds’ investment strategies
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Special Report
Looking to the future
The credit crisis – and particularly problems around cash re-investment – focused the attention of beneficial owners on their securities lending programmes. Blair McPherson argues that this is an opportunity for the industry to step out of the shadows
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Special Report
Top gear?
Leveraged and inverse ETFs have been causing a regulatory fuss in the US. Martin Steward unpicks the issues, and asks if these products are of any relevance to pension fund investors
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Special Report
Spotlight on the guardians
Pension funds are becoming increasingly aware of the need to keep tabs on the performance and costs of their custodians as their role becomes ever more complex, writes Ian Morse
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint
Target date: “There is ample room for added value between one size-fits-all solutions and do-it-yourself approaches to long-term investment decisions”
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Special ReportIn the interim
The challenges of the past two years have led to a broadening of transition management services, and in particular growth in interim asset management, writes Lachlan French
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Features
Your money or your life
Life settlements are emerging as a viable form of exposure to the longevity asset class. Martin Steward asks if there is any place for them in a pension fund portfolio
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Interviews
Multiplying the multi-boutique
As a giant among asset managers describing itself as “multi-boutique”, one might expect BNY Mellon Asset Management (BNYMAM) to be scouring this consolidating industry, chequebook in hand. The recent announcement that it will buy Insight Investment Management from Lloyds Banking Group for £235m (€273m) shows that it is indeed in the market
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Country Report
Still a realistic option
Charlie Finch and Ken Hardman consider the future direction of the pension buyout market in the UK
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Features
The time is right
Paul Kelly and Mitchell Cole discuss why captive reinsurance companies can be useful tools in dealing with DB pensions
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Special ReportSafe and secured?
Collateral management is integral to several activities of the modern pension fund, and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy re-wrote its paradigms, finds Martin Steward
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Asset Class ReportsA time to be selective
Uncertainty in sovereign markets and attractive credit spreads have seen risk concentrate in Europe’s investment grade corporate bond markets, finds Joseph Mariathasan
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Interviews
From silos to solutions
BlackRock has been active in fiduciary management since 2005, when it purchased the internal asset management operation of the Philips pension fund in the Netherlands and was awarded a fiduciary mandate to manage the assets.
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