Articles By Issue
The ethical oligarchs
01 Nov 2011
Kicking off the National Ethical Investment Week in London, pollster YouGov published the results of a survey measuring the British public’s interest in green and ethical financial products.
Pooling – how it works
02 Sep 2010
Gail Moss outlines the essential elements of multinational pension and asset pooling, and how smaller pension funds can get in on the act
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...
Italy: Caution over reform
01 Jul 2010
The proposal for a €1bn government fund investing in SMEs has re-ignited the debate on pension fund investment limits. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo finds pension fund representatives cautious, but ready to...
Italy: Restrictions, restrictions
01 Jul 2010
When it comes to asset allocation, Italian pension funds remain more restricted than their counterparts in the west of Europe due to the limits of legislation, writes
Nina Röhrbein. Italian funds...
Italy: Fondo Cometa: Activist investor
01 Jul 2010
Fondo Cometa, Italy’s largest pension fund with €5.2bn in assets, is discussing terms to implement its new activist investment strategy for domestic equities. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo reports
Fiduciary/Delegation: Hedge fund beta: a cheap core portfolio?
01 Jul 2010
If the trend is towards core-satellite hedge fund portfolios, what does that mean for resource budgeting? It is tempting to see this as a passive-active portfolio – why would an investor not wish to...
Finland mulls reforms
01 Mar 2010
The Finnish government and labour market organisations are evaluating reform proposals made by two working groups aiming to identify ways of increasing working life and raising the retirement age....
Mobile internationals
04 Jan 2010
Gail Moss reports on ways to provide pensions for mobile expatriates
The convexity of convertibles
04 Jan 2010
The logic for a tactical position in convertibles was clear at the beginning of 2009. CQS told Martin Steward about the strategic case as we enter 2010
Risk and human bias
01 Oct 2009
Risk managers are being advised to take more notice of the human element when investing in the financial markets and economic theory cannot truly work unless it incorporates human emotional traits,...
Buyouts take a backseat
02 Sep 2009
Buy-in deals are taking over from buyouts as the current economic climate stifles access to sufficient capital, finds Gill Wadsworth
Still a realistic option
02 Sep 2009
Charlie Finch and Ken Hardman consider the future direction of the pension buyout market in the UK
Basic principles
02 Sep 2009
Richard Lowe assesses the UK’s Investment Governance Group and its ongoing work
PADA’s 2012 challenge
02 Sep 2009
Nyree Stewart investigates how the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is faring in its task of delivering a national low cost DC scheme within three years
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