IPE Magazine
March 2012Analysis
Big ain’t so beautiful
Since 2007, the number of Dutch pension funds has declined by about a third as more and more, predominantly small, corporate pension funds have disappeared and the total is predicted to drop to 100...
01 Mar 2012
The more you struggle… 01 Mar 2012
Alphabet soup 01 Mar 2012
Briefing
Help trustees to stay on the ball
Gail Moss outlines how pension funds can develop training schemes to enable trustees carry out their duties competently
01 Mar 2012
One year later 01 Mar 2012
Keiretsu culture 01 Mar 2012
ESG Reports
Sovereign debt in sights of ESG ratings
Nina Röhrbein finds out how the sovereign debt crisis is affecting countries’ ESG rating
01 Mar 2012
Guest Viewpoint
Kees Cool, Groningen University, and Anton van Nunen, Syntrus Achmea
For the first time since the introduction of the Dutch pension law in 1954, pensioners are to be told that their pensions will be cut by 3-4% from April 2013. Also, companies might be forced to pay...
01 Mar 2012
How We Run Our Money
Alpha hunters
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Gediminas Milieska (pictured) of SEB’s Lithuanian pension funds, who explains how his firm uses three types of open-ended funds to generate alpha
01 Mar 2012
Investing In...
European Equities: A stockpickers’ environment…
… if you can wait a decade for active risk to pay off. Joseph Mariathasan finds managers enjoying rich pickings for the long term, by taking account of – but also looking through – the dominant...
01 Mar 2012
European Equities: The middle way 01 Mar 2012
European Equities: Two different routes to risk 01 Mar 2012
Letter from Brussels
Politicians vs pensions
Two strongly divergent positions concerning the European Commission’s proposals for a financial transaction tax (FTT) have emerged in Brussels. Pension fund interests vehemently oppose the tax, while ...
01 Mar 2012
Letter from the US
Bankruptcy wave threat
A new wave of bankruptcies is set to put more pressure on the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the US pension agency that insures pension benefits of private pension plans covering some...
01 Mar 2012
Long-term Matters
Long-term Matters: Stop enabling corruption
My invitation to Prague last November had one drawback. The seminar was about corporate and political corruption. How depressing. Still, invited by the liberal Brookings Institution and the...
01 Mar 2012
On The Record
Being long-term in a short-term world
How do you make long-term investment plans in a short-term environment?
01 Mar 2012
Pensions Accounting
J’en ai marre
IASB project manager Denise Durant’s opening words to the 18 January IFRS Interpretations Committee meeting were innocuous enough: “We are not discussing the proposed amendment to IAS 1 derived from...
01 Mar 2012
Pensions In
Belgium: Clarity after deadlock
After more than a year of political deadlock, Belgium’s new government has pensions in its sights. Christine Senior reports
01 Mar 2012
Belgium: Change on the way 01 Mar 2012
Belgium: Working longer 01 Mar 2012
Securities Services
There will be no escape
Iain Morse finds that custodians will face greater levels
of liability for the assets they safeguard for clients under
AIFMD rules
06 Mar 2012
Special Reports
Europe's Pension Consultants: Playing the long game
With so many pressures to focus on the short term, consultants are having to craft more sophisticated investment advice – and in some cases, re-think business models – to help clients attain their...
01 Mar 2012
Europe's Pension Consultants: The professionals 01 Mar 2012
Europe's Pension Consultants: Firmly in the advisory camp 01 Mar 2012
Strategically Speaking
On an ambitious journey
The name ‘AXA’ was chosen in the early 1980s, so the story goes, because it can be easily and uniformly pronounced in any language, and, as far as anyone knows, it also doesn’t mean anything rude...
01 Mar 2012
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