All Editorial articles – Page 4
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News
Definition change leads to surge in Swiss schemes' alternatives allocations
New regulation almost triples allocation to asset class at MPK
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NewsSwiss pension plans see liabilities rise by 4% in 2015
Swiss interest rates dropped by further 25 basis points in first quarter according to Towers Watson study
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Special Report
What is risk parity?
All theory is grey, dear friend /And green the golden tree of life. The words of Mephistopheles in the first volume of Goethe’s Faust distinguish academia from the attractions and contradictions of the real world
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News
Romanian pensions regulator proposes new investment guidelines
Only third pillar to benefit from use of interest-rate hedging as long-awaited reforms announced
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Features
Swiss troubled by negative 10-year bond yields
Institutional investors in Switzerland are far from happy their government has issued the first 10-year bond in Europe with a negative rate
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Country Report
Sweden: AP7 triumphs
CIO Richard Gröttheim downplays his fund’s recent stellar performance, explaining that conviction in strategy should always trump short-term gain
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Features
Accounting Matters: Fair valuing the future
Bad accounting breeds bad policies. Or so it would seem
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Features
Class Action Lawsuits: Petrobras - A case for care
Pension funds exposed to troubled Petrobras that have lost money on their investment will have to weigh their options carefully before deciding which legal route to take
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Special Report
Credit: Corporate Activity & Debt Supply
The market has been suffering a shortage of loan supply, and even a pick-up in M&A and LBO activity might not be enough to reverse it
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Country Report
Amundi & EDF: Adopting a dual approach
Amundi and EDF have combined forces with the announcement of a new asset management company
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Country ReportFrance's Agirc-Arrco: Reform of last resort
French public finance magistrates have stressed the urgency of reforms to France’s main private sector supplementary regime, Agirc-Arrco
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Country Report
Agirc-Arrco: Opening closed shops
Restructuring France’s supplementary pension schemes will see greater centralised management and the increased use of passive strategies
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: Oil be back
Niels Jensen looks at worlwide production costs for getting oil out of the ground
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Country Report
Denmark: Ahead of the rest
Rachel Fixsen speaks with one of the leaders of a new research centre that aims to keep Denmark as the leading pension provider
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Alecta
Per Frennberg, chief investment officer at Alecta, describes his team’s emphasis on investment analysis to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: A growth story revisited
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Indefi’s fourteenth annual research report analysing institutional investment trends in France
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Although the severe winter did have a significant impact on US economic activity in the first quarter, the strength of the headwinds from a stronger dollar and the collapse in capital spending within the energy sector have also taken their toll
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Autres temps, autres mœurs
France’s institutional investors, like most across Europe, are struggling to adapt to the low-interest environment
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate Equity: Alternative investment structures
Both general and limited partners are striving to break free of traditional fund structures to find more flexible and efficient ways to commit to private equity
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Anton van Nunen - Van Nunen & Partners
“Pension funds should be clearly distinguished from insurance companies because their objective is to manage risks, rather than hedge them”
