All Briefing articles – Page 17
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New ways to talk to your members
As European social welfare budgets come under pressure, persuading stakeholders of the need both to make retirement provision and to save towards it is becoming more crucial. Yet planning and funding a communications strategy to achieve this will be wasted if members neglect to read or simply ignore the literature. ...
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Cash is king
There is a reason why business people judge their success by money in the bank. Alistair Wittet asks why equity investors focus more on accounting values that obscure this crucial number
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Investment Briefing: Sayonara, keiretsu
Abenomics may not be the only reason to take another look at Japanese equities. David Turner uncovers a sudden conversion to the shareholder-friendly religion
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FeaturesPortfolio Risk Management Commentary: Diversifying fat tails away
Peter Meier, Jann Stoz and Marc Weibel explore the effects of optimising for tail risk rather than volatility, in portfolios with and without hedge funds
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Briefing: The force of member power
IPE’s October Focus Group poll looked at the issue of engagement with members’ views. This month, we take the debate further by asking leading opinion formers how they see the issue of member power versus pension boards’ investment discretion.
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Briefing, Investment: Gulf in expectations
Oil revenues act as a source of diversification in Persian Gulf markets, but there is more to them than the black stuff, writes David Turner. The forthcoming opening of the Saudi market to foreign investors promises a new opportunity for institutional investors to participate.
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Briefing, Investment: Breakevens breakout
Some key indicators of markets’ inflation expectations have broken sharply downwards during 2014. Caroline Saunders asks, should we – and central bankers – be worried?
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Briefing: Pensions Accounting, Back to basics
The International Accounting Standards Board has revealed plans to issue a due process document on the future of pensions accounting. Stephen Bouvier asks where this might lead
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ECB exercise to beef up ABS
The ECB hopes its plans to invest heavily in the asset-backed securitisation market will encourage other investors and ultimately help boost real economy lending, writes Anthony Harrington
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Dollar storm ends 10-year FX calm
A full decade of range-bound trade in the dollar has dulled pension investors’ sense of the risks of currency exposure. As Christopher O’Dea reports, all that’s about to change
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Race for solutions picks up pace
Incumbent managers have a natural advantage with mature pension funds in the provision of solution-type services, finds Pádraig Floyd
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Asset Class Reports
Dangerous liquidity
Following another summer of high-yield bond market volatility, Emma Cusworth asks whether ETFs are to blame for credit markets getting riskier
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Teenage years
Fiona Reynolds faced a protest storm soon after coming on board at PRI as executive director. Jonathan Williams caught up with her 18 months into her job
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Risk-sharing professionals
Gail Moss compares how self-employed professionals are served by specialist collective DC pension funds in three European countries
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Burying IFRS Stateside
For more than a decade, international accountants have dreamed of a single set of global accounting standards. But the failure of standard setters on both sides of the Atlantic to agree on a common treatment for bad-debt provisioning by banks leaves the world facing a multi-GAAP environment for at least a generation, writes Stephen Bouvier
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Time to come together
M&A activity is expected to increase as the global economy recovers. Gail Moss looks at the implications for pension funds that sponsors and trustees should consider
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Smaller firms, better mousetraps
While innovation can take place in companies of any size, smaller companies sometimes get the edge through fresh thinking and nimble structures. Christopher O’Dea finds that innovation opportunities are abundant both abroad and at home
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What are the benefits?
The European Commission unveiled its proposals for a uniform pension benefit statement this spring. The idea has had a mixed reception, as Gail Moss finds
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Geology doesn’t end at the border
Europe sits atop abundant shale energy reserves and Moscow’s annexation of Crimea has catalysed interest in unlocking it to reduce dependence on Russian gas. Tapping those reserves will be a long-term investment proposition, says Christopher O’Dea
