All Briefing articles – Page 15
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Asset Management Fees: What’s the going rate?
Despite calls for a greater level of alignment between asset managers and pension funds, alternative fee models have not yet taken off
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Vietnam: Ripe for take-off
Picking up the pace of Vietnam’s privatisation efforts is key to a more robust capital market, argues Thu Hoai Nguyen
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Strategically speaking: Loomis Sayles
This year, Loomis Sayles will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of its European headquarters in London. The Boston-based active manager has plenty to cheer about its presence this side of the Atlantic
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Hedge Funds: Efficiency or waste?
Negative sentiment against hedge funds is overblown providing investors can identify the right managers using a robust approach, according to Chris Redmond
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Briefing: A longevity step-change?
Was 2015’s unexpected increase in the UK mortality rate a blip or a slowing of the mortality improvement rate?
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Financial technology: big data, greater expectations
In an age of big data, investors are making increasing demands on their managers, who are also faced with rising security and regulatory challenges, writes Vanessa Drucker
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ESG: Accounting for nature
Elisabeth Jeffries reports on a new management tool to help companies assess environmental risks and their use of natural resources
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EIOPA: A Dutch view on stress tests
Agnes Joseph, Niels Kortleve, Sibylle Reichert, Peter Vlaar and Siert Vos examine the relevance of EIOPA’s stress testing regime and argue the case for alternative methods of determining a fund’s resilience
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Make cash pay
Cash holders do not have to settle for low yields from traditional cash management vehicles. Enhanced cash vehicles offer higher yields
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Brazil’s trapped potential
Brazil’s huge market and competitive global companies hold out promise for investors but its economic recovery is being fettered by a political impasse
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Age spectre haunts Japan
Abenomics is faring in the battle to bring Japan’s ecomomy out of the doldrums to cope with a rapidly ageing population
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Equity Earnings: Burning the furniture
Many companies with strong balance sheets are using that position to bolster weak income statements
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Briefing: Time for TEE?
The UK government is mulling over a massive shake-up of pensions tax relief in a bid to incentivise retirement savings
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African Private Equity: The bright continent
Carolyn Campbell describes how Africa’s expanding middle class, rising GDP and government policies are fuelling opportunities for private equity
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Pan-European Funds: DC across borders
Running a single pan-European pension scheme is an attractive idea for employers with staff in more than one country
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Pensionsfonds: Still ironing out the kinks
The industry has welcomed a new proposal that could give German Pensionsfonds more flexibility, but some are disappointed it is not part of a broader reform.
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High-Yield Bonds: Uncharted waters
Is the sell-off in high-yield bonds an indicator of broader weakness, or an opportunity for contrarians to pick up yield?
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German Discount Rates: Biases in pension discounting
In common with many countries, falling interest rates have hit German companies and pension funds significantly by increasing their discounted liabilities.
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Assessing AIFMD
Kai Braun considers the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and finds that operating models have stabilised
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DC evolution, Netherlands style
A new pension law next year is expected to speed up the move from defined benefit to defined contribution pension schemes that has been taking place in the Netherlands in recent years
