IPE EDHEC-Risk Partnership: Serving European Institutional Investors
By Piers Diacre, Publisher and CEO, Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE)
Piers Diacre
One of the main challenges for institutional investors, especially in times of turmoil such as we have witnessed over the past two years, is to be able to make long-term decisions that are based on the most relevant facts and figures. At Investment & Pensions Europe, we realised at an early stage that the research being done by the EDHEC-Risk Institute was precisely the kind of independent and pertinent work that could be applied directly to the practical questions that institutional investors face on a daily basis.
It was this recognition of the relevance of the institute’s research that encouraged us initially to approach EDHEC-Risk with the idea of establishing a partnership on the IPE EDHEC-Risk Institutional Asset Management Awards (IAMAs). These awards were presented last year at a gala ceremony in Paris to the European asset managers who had shown they could produce risk-adjusted returns greater than those of the market for the benefit of European institutional investors.
It is also the reason that we will be organising the next IPE European Pension Fund Awards, which will be the tenth anniversary of this highly successful event, in Monaco in December 2010 at the same time as the EDHEC-Risk Institutional Days. Both IPE and the EDHEC-Risk Institute place the European institutional investment community at the forefront of our activities, so it was a natural step to agree to stage our flagship events in the same location at the same time.
Launched in 2001 by Investment & Pensions Europe, the IPE Awards is an annual event that sets the industry benchmark for excellence in the management of Europe's pension funds; an event that recognises and rewards the hard work and creative thinking of both the pension funds and their executives.
IPE’s partnership with EDHEC-Risk will enable the IPE Pension Fund Awards 2010 to be held on the day preceding the EDHEC-Risk Institutional Days 2010, thus providing an exceptional opportunity for the awards ceremony attendees to take advantage of their visit to Monaco in order to bring themselves up-to-date with the latest developments in institutional investment research.
IPE, for those who are not already familiar with it, is the leading monthly magazine written for those responsible for running pension funds in Europe. Since our first issue was published in February 1997, IPE has built an influential position within the European institutional investor marketplace. We now have a monthly circulation of over 11,000 copies, of which 75% is in continental Europe. The inspiration for the launch of IPE was the recognition that in the long term many European countries faced a serious challenge in meeting the retirement needs of their ageing populations. We realised that the long established and often over generous pay-as-you-go state pensions systems are not viable and would have to be supported by greater funding of pensions. When IPE was launched, this crucial issue was not generally recognised. Since then, pensions have become a major concern in many countries and increased occupational and individual retirement provision is being encouraged. We are pleased that our reporting and EDHEC-Risk’s research are able to play such a valuable role in analysing the consequences of these developments for European institutional investors.
We are genuinely excited about organising this joint event in Monaco with EDHEC-Risk next year and we look forward to being able to welcome all participants to the principality. We believe the joint event will be the ultimate networking opportunity in the European institutional investment marketplace.
Sponsors who are interested in being involved in the EDHEC-Risk Institutional Days and the IPE European Pension Fund Awards can contact Vania Schleef on +33 (0)4 93 18 78 37 or by email to vania.schleef@edhec-risk.com.
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