All IPE articles in September 2013 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Opinion Pieces
PE’s planetary alignment
‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ describes gender differences in cognition. Having attended three major private equity events – PEI Responsible Investment Forum (for ESG-friendly PE), Coller Institute Private Equity 2013 Symposium (for mainstream PE) and PEI Operating Partners Forum 2013 (for portfolio companies) – we propose transposing ...
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Special Report
ESG integration – no one size fits all
Nina Roehrbein surveys best practice among investment managers in ESG integration
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Interviews
Bradesco AM: Taking local global
Surprisingly, for its size, Bradesco has spent most of its first 50 years as a resolutely local firm
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Special Report
Securities Services: The indefinite article
Article 47.3 of the technical standards of EMIR is about to pose challenging questions for Europe’s custody banks. Cécile Sourbes finds out why
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Features
IORP: what to expect this autumn
The calm comes before the storm. Almost two months of holiday have just gone by, and the European Commission is back this month with one major task – make a legislative proposal for the revised IORP Directive.
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Features
Focus Group: Pressure to find a balance
A majority of the respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey (60%) use LDI techniques to manage their liabilities. Of these, almost half (seven respondents) thought yields from core government bonds and rates on interest-rate swaps could fall even lower than they did in the summer of 2012.
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Nominal or real? Or best of both?
Michel Iglesias del Sol and Gerard Roelofs assess the wider implications of FTK2
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FeaturesBe smart with smart beta
Stefan Dunatov emphasises the importance of consistency between strategy, investment beliefs and implementation when exploiting techniques like smart beta
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Little difference between the two
While they may seem to offer better inflation-proof pension benefits, careful analysis shows that real contracts offer little more protection than nominal ones, argue Kees Bouwman, Theo Kocken and Bart Oldenkamp
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Features
Between a rock and a hard place
Investors are unsure whether the current market rally can outlive central bank action, argue Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan
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Special Report
Securities Services: Case study: BNY Mellon strikes out on a new path
There is one idea banks traditionally stick to: the quicker you adapt to new regulatory changes, the easier you are likely to cope with them. And if you can anticipate the changes, you might even take one step ahead of your competitors. That may have been the thinking behind BNY ...
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Country Report
UK: Buy now – spread the premium
David Barker reviews deferred premium buyouts, a development in the insurance market that allows employers to spread the cost of a buyout
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Features
Buyout now while stocks last
Pension longevity transfer, whether through full insurance buyouts, bulk annuities or longevity swaps, is still largely a UK business.
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Features
Buyout market in flux, but outlook rosy
Over the summer, the UK de-risking market has seen significant deal activity, as well as a number of important changes. Lucida, closed to new business since late 2012, was sold to rival Legal & General, while Goldman Sachs announced its intention to sell Rothesay Life, which itself acquired Paternoster less ...
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Opinion Pieces
Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO, Investment Company Institute
“Global funds have more work to do as part of this retirement savings evolution”
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Features
Conceptually challenged?
Back in April, the International Accounting Standards Board was debating the content of its discussion paper on the International Financial Reporting Standards conceptual framework.
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Features
Webb’s policy challenges
The achievement may seem modest, but September 2013 marks 40 months since Steve Webb became pensions minister, a junior post within the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, but one with far-reaching influence over the design, structure and, by extension, asset allocation of occupational pensions in UK.
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Opinion Pieces
Securities Services: Viewpoint: Upcoming changes in the CSD landscape
Placed at the ‘top tier’ of the securities holding chain, central securities depositories (CSDs) provide market participants with a central point for depositing all kinds of financial instruments, and they have not escaped the ambitious reform agenda of policy makers.
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Features
Clwyd: Cultivating the difference
Nina Roehrbein speaks with Philip Latham, pension fund manager at Clwyd Pension Fund, about its unusual asset allocation strategy
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Country Report
The Netherlands: A complex improvement
Pension experts think that the new Dutch pension governance legislation is complicated. But on balance they agree that it will significantly improve the representation of all stakeholders, according to Leen Preesman
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