All IPE articles in September 2016 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Country Report
LGPS: Straight in at the deep end
Gail Moss assesses progress so far as the eight local government asset pools of England and Wales test the water
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Asset Class Reports
Investing In Emerging Market Debt: Reasons for optimism
Daniel Ben-Ami looks at why asset managers are increasingly upbeat about emerging markets
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of selected EM debt funds to macro factors
The chart data shows the sensitivity of the five largest emerging market debt (EMD) funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: emerging market default spreads; global term spreads; and emerging market dividend yields
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Features
Macro Matters: Globalisation is dead
Bob Swarup traces cycles of globalisation and deglobalisation in recent centuries and concludes that the world is now turning towards Deglobalisation 2.0
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Country Report
Master Trusts: A DC default for the future
Pádraig Floyd assesses how master trust providers are shaping the design of defined contribution default funds
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FeaturesInterview: Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel prize in 2002 for insights from cognitive psychology that provided the basis for behavioural economics
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Country Report
DB Sponsor Covenants: Underlying weaknesses
The British Steel and BHS cases have drawn attention to structural flaws in the UK’s defined benefit system when it comes to the sponsor covenant, writes Gill Wadsworth
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Features
SWFs confound the sceptics
Despite reports that sovereign wealth funds are cashing in their assets to cope with falling oil prices, the sector is still growing
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Features
EC heeds concerns over EMIR sovereign-bond collateral rule
Pension schemes could be exempt from a diversification requirement relating to the use of sovereign bonds as collateral for non-centrally cleared derivatives
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Features
Quantitative Easing: UK trustees locked in vicious circle
The Bank of England’s decision to re-launch its quantitative easing (QE) programme in August, has seen defined benefit deficits across the country’s 6,000 schemes rise to unprecedented levels
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Features
ESG: VW scandal presents choices
Investors in the scandal-hit German carmaker must make a choice between collective or individual action, or sitting out for the time being, according to Johan Polet and Jonathan Bakkers
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Special Report
Investment Solutions: Who casts the first stone?
The UK fiduciary management industry awaits the FCA’s report on conflicts of interest. The possible solutions are far from obvious
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Special Report
Norway: Simplified Solvency II rules are on the cards
Pension funds will continue to operate under Solvency I rules this year, but there are plans for Solvency II-type requirements by 2018
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Country Report
Cabinet steadies reforms
Leen Preesman looks at the measures the government is taking to stabilise the pension system
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Weighty in-tray for new CMU commissioner
Valdis Dombrovskis has assumed responsibility as commissioner in charge of the flagship Capital Markets Union project. But he has also assumed the added complication of the withdrawal of the UK
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Interviews
On the Record: Does Brexit change your investment strategy?
Three pension funds - APK Pensionskasse, ÄVWL and PFA pension - discuss Brexit’s impact
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Country Report
Pensions In UK: Of Brexit, deficits and LDI
With a potential Brexit in sight, Carlo Svaluto Moreolo asks whether the assumptions underlying liability-driven investment (LDI) need to be reconsidered
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Special Report
Brexit Papers: OK, what shall we do?
Robin Ellison, head of strategic development for pensions at Pinsent Masons and former chairman of the UK Pensions & Lifetime Savings Association, discusses how Brexit uncertainty is impacting the pension fund industry
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Features
Focus Group: The fall-out from Brexit
Thirteen (62%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group expect the European economy will be worse off once Britain leaves the European Union
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Special Report
Brexit Papers: Brexit, bonds and deficits
For Tapan Datta, global head of asset allocation at Aon Hewitt, Brexit is only the latest chapter in the saga of ever-lower Gilt yields and their associated funding challenges
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