All articles by Susanna Rust – Page 4

  • Features

    Berkshire: Straight talker

    March 2010 (Magazine)

    The UK’s Royal County of Berkshire pension fund has slashed long-only equities and hedged its longevity risk. The manager of the fund, Nick Greenwood, told Brendan Maton about his strategy

  • Dutch Co-op cover ratio rises by a third
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    Dutch Co-op cover ratio rises by a third

    2009-10-14T10:00:00Z

    [11:00 CEST 14-10] NETHERLANDS – The €141m Dutch Co-op Pension Scheme has seen its solvency ratio rise to 146% - an increase of 33% from its nadir at the end of February this year at 113%.

  • Buyouts not for 84% of UK pension schemes - Punter Southall
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    Buyouts not for 84% of UK pension schemes - Punter Southall

    2009-09-24T16:05:00Z

    [17:05 CEST 24-09] UK - Pension funds would be better off running their liabilities themselves than choosing buyout insurance in 84% of cases.

  • Railpen expands its long-short strategy
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    Railpen expands its long-short strategy

    2009-08-06T15:00:00Z

    [16:00 CEST 06-08] UK - Railpen Investments, the in-house investment manager for the £15bn (€17.7bn) industry-wide pension fund for British railway workers, has invested £65m in a fund of long-short equity hedge fund with Goodhart Partners.

  • Features

    Not an exact science

    February 2009 (Magazine)

    To begin at the beginning with actuarial science: it ain’t perfect. Most pension managers have probably already twigged this after years of data revisions by their appointed scheme actuary. In spite of any appearances to the contrary, actuaries are human, not divine. Yet they qualify and are consequently paid to ...

  • The €64bn Question
    Special Report

    The €64bn Question

    February 2009 (Magazine)

    Brendan Maton outlines the factors that are helping us to live longer – and costing us more in pension terms

  • A Christian institutional investor
    Features

    A Christian institutional investor

    January 2009 (Magazine)

    A year ago the Church of Sweden implemented a new investment policy which includes a more sophisticated, layered approach to its ethical investing. Brendan Maton spoke with CIO Anders Thorendal

  • Länsförsäkringar’s fruit leaves sour note
    Features

    Länsförsäkringar’s fruit leaves sour note

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Many institutional investors shun hedge funds as opaque in process and therefore difficult to comprehend. Such investors can always fall back on the Warren Buffett adage that if you do not understand something, you should not invest in it. Far rarer are those institutions that have tasted the fruits of ...

  • Four-year marathon to bring back the prize
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    Four-year marathon to bring back the prize

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    The Arkitekternas Pensionkassa has until 2012 to convince its newer members that it is a better home for their ITP savings than the big players such as Alecta or Skandia. Managing director Maritha Lindberg tells Brendan Maton how the fund plans to do it

  • Green lights all the way?
    Features

    Green lights all the way?

    November 2008 (Magazine)

    Despite Danish banking scares, the local pension funds were unscathed by the financial troubles – at least until earlier this year. Brendan Maton explains why

  • Special Report

    Avoiding teenage growing pains

    August 2008 (Magazine)

    With their first flush of youth now over, many of the Danish pension funds created in the 1990s should be thinking about broadening their investment horizons beyond the home market. PensionDanmark is taking a lead in looking global. Brendan Maton spoke to Torben Möger Pedersen, the fund’s CEO

  • Pension funds will change Romania - National Bank
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    Pension funds will change Romania - National Bank

    2008-07-18T16:00:00Z

    ROMANIA – Private pension funds will change the financial landscape of Romania, accelerate the development of the equity and bond markets, according to the National Bank of Romania.

  • HSBC launches two emerging economies funds
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    HSBC launches two emerging economies funds

    2008-07-16T13:26:00Z

    [14:26 CEST 16-07] EUROPE - HSBC Global Asset Management has launched both a Frontier Markets equity fund and an Emerging Markets Inflation-linked bond fund for European investors.

  • News

    DKK25bn Teachers' fund appoints Sørensen as manager selector

    2008-07-14T14:57:00Z

    [15:57 CEST 14-07] DENMARK - The DKK25bn (€3.4bn) Danish teachers’ fund, Laerernes Pension, has appointed a fixed income specialist, Morten Roed Sørensen to be its new portfolio manager.

  • Features

    Sticking to the plan

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Paul Haines, investment director at DMGT Pensions in London, and a former investment consultant, discusses the future of consulting, the dangers of SRI and the positive influence of heavy metal music with Brendan Maton

  • Special Report

    Healthy investment

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Michael Pederson, CIO of PKA, the Danish health and social services workers’ fund, tells Brendan Maton about the positive side to principled investment

  • Features

    A fan of shareholder value

    November 2007 (Magazine)

    Timo Löyttyniemi, managing director of Valtion Eläkerahasto (VER), Finland’s state pension fund, talks to Brendan Maton about corporate finance, creating shareholder value and reforming the Helsinki School of Economics students’ endowment fund.

  • Features

    Open door policy

    November 2007 (Magazine)

    Laerernes Pension, the Danish teachers’ retirement fund believes that openness and diversification are fundamental to investment policy. However, Anders Bertramsen, portfolio manager, and Paul Brüniche-Olsen, chief executive officer, tell Brendan Maton that Laerernes will not be a guinea pig

  • Features

    A proud man at the helm

    October 2007 (Magazine)

    Roderick Munsters is the head of investments at Europe’s largest second pillar pension fund, the Dutch civil servants’ scheme ABP. He talks to Brendan Maton about Warren Buffet, Jean Frijns and the opportunities to be found during market crises

  • Features

    AVH switch to passive strategy bears fruit

    September 2007 (Magazine)

    AVH, a medium-sized industrywide pension scheme for agricultural wholesalers, has ploughed a lone furrow, managing its administration in-house and following a cautious investment strategy. Brendan Maton reports