All Features articles – Page 116
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Good time for private equity
Just over 60% of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey said their fund invested in private equity. One respondent said they were about to start investing, while the remaining respondents do not invest.
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Martin Steward: A tragedy of errors
When three of the world’s major central banks do three different things for three different reasons, it’s a fair bet that at least one of them is making a policy error. But which one is making the error, how serious is it, and do the other two need to worry?
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Feathering the NEST
Jonathan Williams finds out how the UK’s National Employment Savings Trust is setting out to encourage new members to join
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Dutch and Australians bemoan 2/20 fees
Australian and Dutch pension funds believe many alternative asset managers’ fee structures are “grossly” excessive, says Australia’s Centre for Investor Education (CIE). Jamie Nemtsas, director, said the 2/20-style fee structure was a “common stress point” for attendees at the recent Superannuation and Pension Funds Summit on Dutch and Australian Cooperation and Alliance.
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Celine Piquemal-Prade, Comgest: ‘We haven’t changed for 25 years’
There are two big growth managers based in Paris that begin with the letter ‘C’. One has quadrupled its staff since 2003 and quadrupled its assets under management since 2008, lavishly entertains an army of IFAs at its annual investor conference, and enjoys high-profile advertising and commenting in the press across Europe. The other is Comgest.
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What next after fixed income?
Frank Schnattinger outlines the results of IPE Institutional Investment’s 2011 survey of the German institutional market
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Arab Spring premium
Matthew Craig finds political upheaval in the MENA region generating volatility, opportunity and a new appreciation of risk
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Going back to basics
Angelien Kemna, CIO of €277bn Dutch pension fund manager APG, is going back to basics. “Pension fund management is not about chasing mandates. We need to ask ourselves: why exactly did we have these investments again? What is their purpose?”
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Define risk, please
Off to talk to the chairman of the pension fund board. ‘Well Pieter, many members are still phoning the administration helpline to ask about investment policy. The recent television programme that criticised the industry for not paying more in premiums means we are still in the firing line.’
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Dial-a-psychic
International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) workplans have tended to be less reliable sources of information than a dial-a-psychic.
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MPs grill experts in pensions row
“I am sure Mr Bosch would have liked it very much if we’d have endorsed this, but we did not. We never endorse these types of reports.” With these words, Joanne Kellermann, director at Dutch pension supervisor and central bank DNB, distanced herself from a controversial report by consultant Frits Bosch that was commissioned by Dutch news show Zembla. Based on Bosch’s analysis, the show, which aired in February, contended that hundreds of billions of Dutch pension savings had “vanished”. K
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Gateways to growing markets
Iain Morse surveys securities services markets in Portugal, Gibraltar and Cyprus
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From our perspective: Meet the governance police
Staffing a company board is many times more an art than it is a science. Appointments largely seek to balance sector specialisation with wider business experience, length and breadth of experience, and softer skills such as communication and advocacy. Other aspects, such as gender diversity, are of growing importance, as seen in the UK’s 30% Club and in Scandinavian countries that have minimum appointment figures for women.
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Meet the new investment office
Saker Nusseibeh, head of investment at Hermes Fund Managers, sees something wrong in the current system of pension fund management, which he believes prioritises product proliferation and a mentality of ‘buyer beware’ over trusted advice.
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Maintaining value
Martin Steward spoke with Dorrit Vanglo, LD Pension’s new CEO, and head of investment and finance Lars Walberg about tendering €6bn worth of investment mandates
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Hutton warns against ‘pick & mix’
The publication of the final report by the UK’s Independent Public Service Pensions Commission, more commonly referred to as the Hutton Report on pensions, was published in March.
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FeaturesEDHEC-Risk Alternative weighting schemes: conditions for optimality
Felix Goltz, Head of Applied Research, EDHEC-Risk Institute and Director of Research & Development, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Scientific Director, EDHEC-Risk Institute, and Scientific Advisor, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks
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FeaturesEDHEC-Risk Efficient indexation: an alternative to cap-weighted indices
Felix Goltz, Head of Applied Research, EDHEC-Risk Institute and Director of Research & Development, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks Patrice Retkowsky, Senior Research Engineer, EDHEC-Risk Institute and Deputy Head of Research & Development, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks
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FeaturesEDHEC-Risk Integrated approach to sovereign wealth risk management
Bernd Scherer, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Member, EDHEC-Risk Institute
