All Features articles – Page 126
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FeaturesMilitary timing softens crisis blow
Reeta Paakkinen spoke to Caner Öner, senior adviser at Oyak, the €5.6bn Turkish military pension fund
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Diary of an Investor: Mental resolve
The beach at Scheveningen is broad and blustery at this time of year. The tempestuous, grey North Sea contrasts with the pale, wan light and the broad horizon, and I always find that a brisk walk with our Labrador-cross Dubbeltje brings about the right sort of mood to deliberate on the problems that are taking me the most time to resolve.
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FeaturesEnter the global dimension
There is no rule that says emerging market securities are the only – or even the best – source of emerging market exposure. Martin Steward looks at access points closer to home
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Follow your members
Social media is boosting communication between pension funds and members, and among members themselves, says Gail Moss
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PP Pension: Steady as she goes
The €796m PP Pension fund is known for consistently producing excellent returns. But after a recent dip in performance, the newly appointed CEO Viveka Ekberg (pictured) and CIO Cecelia Thomasson Blomquist aim to re-establish the fund’s good returns without compromising on its winning philosophy, writes Pirkko Juntunen
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Presentation matters
The IASB’s joint work on financial statement presentation alongside its US counterpart the FASB, has largely been the stalking horse of the IASB’s efforts to revise IAS19. The FSP project has as its objective the development of an accounting standard that will mandate how entities organise the financial information in their financial statements.
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Corporate compliance
Corporate governance processes of institutional investors have come under the spotlight with the publication of two UK reviews. The Walker Review and the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) review of the UK Combined Code encourage greater shareholder engagement through a proposed Stewardship Code. But what impact will they have on pension ...
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Full speed ahead
A €2.6bn pension fund will look after CERN’s scientists long after they have finished their minute inspection of the universe using the Large Hadron Collider. Nina Röhrbein visited Christian Cuénoud, the fund’s retiring administrator
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Distressed still not de-stressed
As in equity markets, Caroline Hay finds that the big bounce in distressed debt and leveraged loans since the lows of last winter raises as many questions as answers
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Pension funds on 2010
Pension fund respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey on the outlook for 2010 had different views on how the new year will shape up.
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Diary of an Investor: Fortune favours the brave
I am in Hong Kong. Not only am I visiting Chinese factories to taste the potential of Asian growth stocks, as my Asian equity manager and host explains, but I have also learned about what the new year might hold.
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UK covenant semantics
Almost 18 months into the financial crisis, UK pension funds are still struggling to ensure employer covenants will protect pension plans should a company go under or be unable to plug the deficit. But lessons have also been learned in that time. This suggests trustees are at least improving their own governance.
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Fiduciary futures
Pension funds outside the Netherlands struggled to understand fiduciary management only two years ago, but now the concept is thriving and evolving independently in different European countries, a report finds.
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A handmaid’s tale
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the International Accounting Standards Board and its US counterpart, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is key to understanding why European businesses are in danger of drowning in what increasingly resembles a tide of accounting effluent.
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Global macro lessons
They may seem worlds apart, but global macro managers might have some useful things to teach pension funds, writes Martin Steward
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Spreading the risk
Diversified growth lives up to its name, covering a diverse range of institutional strategies with diverse potential uses for pension funds, finds Christine Senior. But is the strategy discredited?
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Ong’s law of finance
When leading financial practitioners and academics convened in Qatar earlier in the autumn at the launch of QFinance to discuss the future of financial services regulation, it seemed that the economic tsunami of 2008 was finally receding and normality was returning. Banks have spent most of the year rebuilding their ...
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FeaturesGoing beyond sound-bite leadership
In the final article in this series, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan conclude that asset mangers can no longer afford to confuse the buzz of the investment function with leadership
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Private equity and the ‘new normal’
Swings between deflationary and inflationary economic cycles will play havoc with private equity investments, says Nicholas Doimi de Frankopan, but also separate the men from the boys
