All Features articles – Page 119
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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
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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
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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.
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Get the message across
Respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey were evenly split on the most important form of communication with their members or participants. Some 30% believed postal correspondence to be most important, while the same number favoured their fund’s website. When asked this question a year ago, a majority of 38% stated that postal correspondence was most important, compared with 26.5% for website communication.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FeaturesFocus on payment
Kerrin Rosenberg and Theo Kocken draw startling conclusions about the future shape of pension fund liabilities
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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?
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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
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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.
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Pensions cross borders
Gail Moss assesses the issue of pension provision for international workforces
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On the starting blocks
Kalpana Fitzpatrick assesses industry reforms to the UK’s fledgling National Employment Savings Trust
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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
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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.
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Hedge in the middle
Just over half (52%) of the respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey stated that their pension fund currently invests in hedge funds. Some 66.5% do so via fund of funds, while 58.5% do so directly.
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Heavyweights reject Solvency II
Policymakers, pundits and pensions gurus gathered in Brussels recently to attend the European Commission conference on the Green Paper on pensions. And while the event’s official line may have been safety, sustainability, transparency, working together – with László Andor, commissioner for employment, social affairs and inclusion, pointing out that funding ...
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Global systems lack an ‘A’
Comparing more than a dozen pension systems worldwide, some might expect at least one to achieve the highest mark. However, Mercer, working with the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) on comparing retirement arrangements across the globe in its second Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index, was unable to award an ...
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Keep it in the family
Gail Moss examines the arguments for and against retaining control of asset management in-house
