All IPE articles in September 2012 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Bearing the brunt of margin calls
Earlier this year, the industry cheered as Brussels granted pension funds a temporary exemption from the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). Yet concerns over the impact of the regulation on funds persist, reprieve notwithstanding.
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Special Report
OTC Swaps Regulation: APG: Collateral damage
“Of course, we may have to consider to hedge less if derivatives solutions become too risky or too expensive.”
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Anxiety management
Nina Röhrbein gauges views on how the likely changes to Dutch pensions will affect investment and risk strategies
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Country Report
UK: How to aim for the impossible
Rudyard Ekindi, director at NEST, discusses how the scheme hopes to achieve long-term and strong performance
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Country Report
UK: Challenges ahead
Pete Drewienkiewicz outlines the broader range of tools available to pension funds to hedge liability risk
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Features
Steadying the ship
Andrew Waring of the UK Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein how the 2008 financial crisis led to a fiduciary management structure
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Features
Making a virtue out of necessity
While investors have grown weary of new risks, they are unwilling to forego a bargain when they see it, according to Jim McCaughan and Amin Rajan
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Features
Who turned out the lights?
Dark liquidity, which started as a way to hide big trades,now mostly offers liquidity in bitty, small packages. But Martin Steward finds signs that the pendulum is swinging back again
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Features
Lost horizons
The growing gap between trading and investing is changing the face of equity markets, argues Per Lovén
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Features
The long haul
Speaking a little over 200 days into his tenure as EFRP secretary general, Matti Leppälä was a busy man. His secretariat was working on its response to the quantitative impact study of EIOPA (the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) on the holistic balance sheet proposal, and he was looking forward to the Brussels close season when the city’s politicians, officials and interest groups head for Europe’s holiday spots.
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Features
Speed is good
Richard Olsen argues that, far from slowing down, transaction volumes need to increase by a factor of thousands, and that pension funds should benefit from its uncorrelated alpha
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Country Report
UK: No more ‘set and forget’
Gill Wadsworth examines current practice among UK pension funds and their trustees in the management of liability risk
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Features
Latin lessons in sovereign default
Emerging market debt managers are brave souls. Take Thomas Brund of Sydinvest, one of the managers featured in this month’s strategy review, who deliberately bought the Ivory Coast before it defaulted. “We were happy to take that default to make sure that we were well-positioned for the upside,” he explains.
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: The real issue
Do negative real rates in inflating economies make a case for taking emerging currency exposure without the bond duration? Joseph Mariathasan finds a complex picture
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Sorting though the ‘stuff’
In an asset class dominated by top-down commentary, Martin Steward finds bottom-up alpha defining performance
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Dog days
It is the end of August. Holidays are a distant memory, the leaves are wilting on the trees and the children are going back to school. The euro crisis isn’t getting any worse and markets have even rallied. Welcome to the dog days of summer.
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Special Report
Extracting the true cost of gold
Institutional investors have been integral to the boom in gold prices over the past five years, but are they fully aware of the high-impact nature of their investments? Nina Röhrbein reports
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Interviews
On the Record: Cost concerns
What impact will the EMIR regulation have on your LDI strategy?
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Features
Tomorrow’s long-term capitalists
The UK equity market, as Prof John Kay rightly points out in his review ‘UK Markets and Long-term Decision Making’, is no longer majority-owned by UK pension funds and insurers, and has not been for a long time.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Ins and outs of ‘flexileg’
In the old days, an international investment bank could study a Brussels Directive or Regulation and make plans.
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