Briefing
Banks back in favour
01 Mar 2013
Fund managers are overweight banking stocks for the first time since 2007. But Maha Khan Phillips finds that not everyone is convinced that now is the time to buy
Regulating Europe
01 Mar 2013
Gail Moss reviews pension regulation and law changes under discussion in seven European countries
The middle way
01 Feb 2013
Gail Moss outlines how public sector pension entities can get the best out of the procurement process
Contagious junk?
01 Feb 2013
Speculation that European downgrades could squeeze EM corporate bond issuers is overblown, finds Martin Steward
The correlation myth
01 Feb 2013
Patrick Burke d’Orey argues that factor analysis shows that
correlations are not at all-time highs – and that even in 2008 there was wide dispersion in pair-wise factor correlations
AIFMD: the rush to regulate
01 Feb 2013
With its mid-year implementation deadline looming, Giuseppe Rumi and Giorgio Tosetti update us on the state of play for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
Can they fix it?
02 Jan 2013
Stephen Bouvier sets out the problems facing the IFRIC interpretation committee on the treatment of single-A corporate bonds in discounting pension liabilities
Don’t be afraid to ask questions
02 Jan 2013
Gail Moss finds out the kind of information pension fund trustees should seek from their asset managers since they cannot realistically be expected to understand the many complex products and...
Living longer, working longer?
02 Jan 2013
Chris Madsen and Martijn Tans explain their concept of equilibrium retirement age as a tool to help individuals and employers manage longevity risk and plan for retirement
Australia: gateway to Asia?
02 Jan 2013
It is right on Asia’s doorstep, but James Dunn finds that outside the big resource names there is surprisingly little Asia exposure in Australia’s stock market
Don’t be surprised by inflation
02 Jan 2013
Nicholas Johnson, Berdibek Ahmedov and Ronit Walny argue that now is the time to build a real asset bucket in diversified portfolios
The inflation trade-off
02 Jan 2013
Hedging against unexpected inflation can be costly. But Karsten Jeske and Anjun Zhou argue that active management can shift the efficient frontier in investors’ favour
While inflation and inflation...
Insurance inspiration
01 Dec 2012
Building an internal model under Solvency II costs time and money. Cécile Sourbes asks what pension funds can learn as insurers edge towards implementing the new framework
HBS: room for improvement
01 Dec 2012
The concept of a holistic balance sheet is intellectually tempting but could be improved and it is still unclear whether it will be workable in practice, argue Jurre de Haan, Karin Janssen and Eduard ...
In your own back yard
01 Dec 2012
Gail Moss looks at how a number of regional pension funds are investing in their own localities
