All IPE articles in September 2016 (Magazine) – Page 3
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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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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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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
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
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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Features
Diary of an Investor: Project Waffle
For some months now, the powers that be here at Wasserdicht headquarters have been looking at moving our Dutch pension fund over the border to Belgium
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Country Report
Diversified Growth Funds: Diffusing the risk
Katherine Lynas and Adam Gillespie point out that strong diversified growth funds distinguish themselves in performance terms at times of heightened market stress
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Special ReportUK: Pace of reform slows down
Following the relative success of auto-enrolment, the UK has turned its attention to ensuring its pension system is fit for purpose
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pensions dreamland?
The two presidential candidates disagree on everything except on Social Security, the US federal programme that guarantees basic pension benefits
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Special ReportGermany: On the pre-election reform drive
The German government is hoping to finalise a major reform of the pension system before key state elections in spring 2017
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Country Report
A Dutch view on IORP II
IORP II sometimes fails to reflect European case law, according to Hans Van Meerten
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Features
ESG: Trickle-up dynamics
How much ESG regulation starts its life as an EU directive and how much is introduced by individual member states? Jonathan Williams investigates
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Country ReportPensions In The Netherlands: The end of the road
The sector has run out of options to avoid looming rights cuts, says Leen Preesman
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