All IPE articles in December 2007 (Magazine) – Page 3
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Fully funded
Sandy Flight, chief exchequer officer, Dundee City Council in Scotland, tells David White that the main objective of Tayside Superannuation Fund is to maximise overall return within reasonable risk parameters, and that means having a clear asset allocation strategy and sticking to it
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Finding the right level
Founded in 1961, Inarcassa began life as the state-run pension fund for Italian Architects and Engineers.
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Default dilemmas
Now that the US Department of Labor (DoL) has defined which default investments for 401(k) participants are right, will employers’ lives be easier? Not necessarily.
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Custodians warm to Spain
Good fundamentals are attracting securities services providers but there are hurdles for non-resident investors, writes Heather McKenzie
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Making choices the fun way
Effective communication in the pension scheme world is paramount, as how well you get the message across affects the many choices members have to make to ensure they get the best level of pension income when they retire.
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Phasing in changes
There is movement on the state pension front in Portugal, Iain Morse finds
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Broadening the options
New regulation may go some way towards widening the investment possibilities for Spain’s pension funds, Iain Morse finds
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A little bit more can go a long, long way
Sweden’s public sector AP3 scheme, one of the Swedish government’s four state buffer funds, has had a bit of a rough ride recently. After achieving the lofty heights of 17.7% returns for what it must have considered a stable portfolio at the time, last year’s 9.5% has led to a rethink that has seen AP3 once again walk away with a couple of IPE’s renowned European pensions awards – not least the one featured here as Sweden’s best scheme.
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Reaping the benefits
Funds of funds continued their healthy performance in October, and the Eurekahedge Fund of Funds index rose an impressive 3% during the month.These returns came on the back of strong performance of underlying hedge funds, which did well against the back drop of soaring equity-prices, surging commodity-prices, and further declines ...
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Balancing life and pensions
Starting with a blank canvas back in 2003, the creation of the Bank of Ireland’s LifeBalance product was one of three components of the bank’s new integrated group pensions strategy that was developed by the group pensions department. The three components are governance, benefits and fund structures.
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Playing the away game
Oslo Pensjonsforsikring is Norway’s largest local authority pension scheme. Named after the city it represents and with assets of €4.4bn, it manages and provides pensions income and benefits for some 30,000 active members, 23,000 deferred members and almost 56,000 pensioners who work or have worked in the Norwegian capital’s public sector.
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A single manager approach but wide net to cast
Investing in hedge funds requires specific skills and careful monitoring. Pension schemes usually use hedge funds to ensure a robust diversification and the safest and perhaps easiest method of investing in this increasingly common alternative is through funds of funds. But for Ilmarinen, Finland’s €23bn multi-employer scheme, which has 3% or €750m of its overall portfolio in hedge funds, that is no longer enough.
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Taking on the alternatives
IPE asked three pension services – in Croatia, Sweden and the Netherlands – the same question: ‘What is your attitude to alternative investments?’ Here are their answers:
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All your eggs in one basket
The small but innovative €566m Bosch hybrid group pension scheme remains the only occupational pension fund in Germany to apply changes to accounting practices introduced in 2005 by the International Financial Reporting Standards board which affect the way companies view their pensions.
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One step ahead of the law
Switzerland’s €2bn ABB Pension Fund is no slave to regulation and even claims the way it interprets pensions law in the rich Alpine state has enhanced the way the regulations have evolved there.
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Bank paper takes hit after subprime crisis
Yield curve/durationAnother rate cut from the US Federal Reserve was announced in the midst of some very ugly reporting numbers from several of the leading US investment banks. In its accompanying statement after announcing the quarter point cut, the Fed made it very clear that this was to be the ...
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Actors in search of a role
Investment consultants have yet to carve our much of a niche in the Spanish pensions market, George Coats finds
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Excellence across the board
This year’s IPE awards again sees a bumper crop of entries at an excellent standard.
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Acclimatising to normal life
Alan Steele retired earlier this year as director of finance at the London Borough of Hounslow with oversight of the borough’s pension scheme, which has assets of £480m (€666m). He talks to George Coats about his career
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