All Features articles – Page 102
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Taking the sting out of the tendering process
Tendering for a new investment consultant – or indeed, tendering to fill any soon-to-be-vacant position – using the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) can cause the more than 100 local authority pension funds in the UK a lot of pain, according to Nicola Mark, head of the £2bn (€2.4bn) Norfolk Pension Fund.
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FeaturesWhat makes a skilful portfolio manager?
Ignore the sales pitches, advises Rick Di Mascio. Successful managers simply get more decisions right than wrong, and make sure their hits make more money than their misses lose
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In the laboratory
It’s a good rule in life to learn from the mistakes of others if you can. So what could the board of a brand new pension fund learn from others to make sure its internal design and external relationships are as robust as possible?
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Portfolio impact
Gail Moss outlines the concept of impact investing and how it relates to mission-based investing, which is often used in the foundation sector
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Timelines: Forewarned is forearmed
On 2 October, when the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) submitted its technical standards to the European Commission on the conduct of the quantitative exercise for the revised IORP Directive, a number of concerns were raised within the pensions industry.
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Fighting talk
Pension funds see remuneration from two different but uniquely intertwined perspectives. As institutional investors, they are under increasing pressure to hold companies, including banks, to account over executive pay.
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Shock factor
Liam Kennedy spoke with Theo Kocken and Kerrin Rosenberg about pensions, behavioural finance and a new definition of fairness
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From ugly duckling to swan
Michael Kjeller of KPA Pension tells Nina Röhrbein about his fund’s transformation
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Money doesn’t grow on trees
Every child has heard similar words. You want that delicious-looking cake? A new toy? “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”
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Diary of an Investor: Rear-view mirror
A couple of weeks ago I made my way to Amsterdam’s Beurs van Beurlage for a festive evening, the annual dinner of the Dutch Committee of Institutional Investors. It’s always a good occasion to catch up with old friends, even if you’d rather give some of the guests a wide berth.
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A cross-border story
Iain Morse reviews Ireland’s custody market as it wakes up to fund rationalisation and thinner margins
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Keeping pace with the paper chase
Investors and market players would do well to do one thing when new financial reforms come into force – adapt quickly. A case in point is the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) currently being drafted in Brussels.
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Bolt-on growth
As a fast-track route to growth with a focus on efficiency gains, buy-and-build seems perfectly-suited to our low-growth world, writes Jennifer Bollen
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On the road again
The convertible bond market finally woke up in September. But Martin Steward finds that there is a long way to go before portfolio managers are out of the woods
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Pensions Accounting: If at first you don’t succeed...
It was only a matter of time before the issues left unresolved by the International Accounting Standards Board’s 2006 pensions accounting project landed on the desk of the International Financial Reporting Standards interpretations committee.
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Trusted adviser 2.0
In this third and final article in the current series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan conclude that, as markets have become disconnected from fundamental value drivers, the role of trusted adviser is gaining traction.
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Just who can you trust?
With anti-Europe sentiment running high, bailout fatigue widespread and austerity resentment reaching a fever pitch, the Dutch election of 12 September was widely seen as a bellwether ballot. For a while, the euro-sceptic Socialist Party seemed destined for a landslide win, with polls showing the socialists taking 39 seats in the 150-seat lower house – a 24-seat gain – leaving the conservative VVD of prime minister Mark Rutte in the dust.
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Investing in solar and student loans
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Hans Wilhelm Korfmacher, managing director at WPV about the pension fund’s highly diversified investment strategy.
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A long road to a new form of lending
In recent years, a number of asset managers have touted infrastructure’s profile as an asset class. They point out that infrastructure is largely uncorrelated with other asset classes, not to mention that it matches institutional investors’ long-term liabilities perfectly.
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FeaturesGo with the flows
Dividends really do pay off in emerging markets. Martin Steward asks why, and what the theories tell us about how far investors should tilt towards higher yields.
