All Features articles – Page 119
-
Features
Rare all-in business
The Danish pension and asset management industries are big enough to offer global custodians some glittering prizes. The mighty ATP, with assets in excess DKK610bn (€82bn) and effectively part of the state pension system, selected BNY Mellon as its global custodian in 2006.
-
Features
Reality check
Anton van Nunen argues that instead of focusing on an undeliverable level of security, the Dutch regulator should recognise that 100% certainty is not attainable for pensions
-
Features
Right, relevant and concise
How can pension funds get their message across to members and pensioners in this fast-moving digital age? Gail Moss gives an overview
-
Features
Diary of an Investor: A random walk
Today we are holding a finals presentation for managers our consultant think good, proper and worthy of managing a portion of Wasserdicht Pensioenfonds’ assets. Would these managers have been on the same short list had we employed another consultant? Or the same list if we had looked at Morningstar? Every manager wants to be our friend and to see us. Perhaps next time we do this ourselves.
-
Features
Going global
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Marinos Gialeli, general manager of the Cyprus Hotel Employees Provident Fund, about its approach to managing its clients’ assets in a period of global economic downturn
-
Features
Still at the station
Investors cursing themselves for missing the private equity secondaries train in 2009 can still get onboard, finds Martin Steward
-
Features
Resolving NEST’s relative unknowns
Until the recent annoucement by the UK government, there were a number of outstanding issues surrounding the National Employment Savings Trust. Jonathan Williams asks whether these have all been resolved
-
Features
The year ahead
This month’s Off the Record survey asked European pension funds for their outlook for 2011, and received varying views and concerns.
-
Features
Russian bank roulette
Shares in the bigger Russian banks are spiking on the belief of further consolidation and privatisation in the sector, writes Richard Hemming
-
Features
On the starting blocks
Kalpana Fitzpatrick assesses industry reforms to the UK’s fledgling National Employment Savings Trust
-
Features
Pensions cross borders
Gail Moss assesses the issue of pension provision for international workforces
-
Features
Diary of an Investor: Player and dealer
I caught up with an old pal at the IPE Awards in Monaco in early December. As a previous IPE winner, we at Wasserdicht Pension Funds were invited to a special reception to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the awards. But beforehand, Pim and I met for an aperitif.
-
Features
Strategic dynamism
Optimal strategic asset allocation cannot be the same for investors with different levels of wealth at different moments in time, argue Philippe Aurain and Eric Bouyé
-
Features
Presenting Failures
The IASB’s discussion of pensions accounting in November posed some of the hitherto unanswered questions about the drive to converge IFRS and US GAAP: at precisely what time are accounting standards going to be set?
-
FeaturesFocus on payment
Kerrin Rosenberg and Theo Kocken draw startling conclusions about the future shape of pension fund liabilities
-
Features
Long-term investor, short-term horizon
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Truls Tollefsen, chief financial officer at Vital Forsikring, about the Norwegian insurer’s approach to managing its client’s long-term interests in the face of a strict annual guaranteed return objective
-
Features
A stitch in time
Predicting life expectancy is never easy. In addition to the more obvious factors that need to be considered, Swiss Re’s Daniel Ryan points out some less obvious but potentially beneficial ones
-
Features
US success story
The Thrift Savings Plan serves as something of a prototype for NEST. It has widened pension participation and demonstrated good returns, reports Maria Teresa Cometto
-
Features
AP1 gets tough on global custody
In the wake of the crisis, the giant AP1 is looking for a new global custodian and is setting stringent operating conditions. Iain Morse reports
-
Features
Headhunters ahoy
Last week a headhunter called me. ‘Pieter, do you know any investment directors at pension funds who might want to transition into investment consultancy?’ With things in Holland not exactly optimal there are a couple of hundred people who might be interested. But what I say is: ‘I am not ...
