Analysis
GPS: Blow to funds’ optimism
02 Sep 2010
European pension funds say they have become more concerned about their own organisation’s ability to meet its financial objectives during the third quarter of 2010, with pessimistic views...
Pensions Green Paper has industry reaching for fine-tooth comb
02 Sep 2010
The European Commission takes pains to emphasise what its latest Green
Paper on pensions does not do. The paper, for instance, does not make any specific proposals. Nor does it recommend increasing...
BP oil spill fuels investor concern
01 Jul 2010
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is threatening to affect more than just the environment. Investors in BP, including pension funds, have been warned they could suffer in terms of both income and...
GPS: Pension fund managers more optimistic than last quarter
01 Jul 2010
European pension funds were more optimistic about the economy in their own countries during the second quarter of 2010. Pension fund managers were also more positive about the financial situation of...
Better late than never
01 Jul 2010
On 29 April the IASB published its proposals to revamp IAS 19, employee benefits, which “aims to make fundamental improvements to the recognition, presentation and disclosure of defined benefit plans ...
Derivatives
01 Jul 2010
Proposals for legislative measures on uncovered, or naked, short selling of securities and the trade in derivatives – two crucial areas in the EU’s wholesale upgrade of financial legislation...
Cash Balance
01 Jul 2010
Coca-Cola is the latest big US company to convert its final salary pension plan to cash balance, thereby becoming part of a trend highlighted in a recent survey of the Fortune 100 companies by...
Industry Research:IPE European Institutional Asset Management Survey 2010
01 Jul 2010
The European Institutional Asset Management Survey (EIAMS) this year celebrates its tenth anniversary. Invesco commenced the survey in 2000 and three years ago asked IPE to undertake it.
Exploiting uncertainty in investment markets
01 Jul 2010
In the first in a series on a new study, Barb McKenzie, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan argue that subdued asset growth is set to drive out mediocrity from the asset industry
Stephen Cooper, board member, International Accounting Standards Board
01 Jul 2010
The issue of accounting for pensions has always been fraught for standard-setters who by necessity concentrate their efforts on the needs of investors who are, after all, generally considered to be...
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