All Features articles – Page 129
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Diary of an Investor: Art of designer dealing
The team is back from holiday and we look at the equity markets rise. Yet how many months ago were people talking about bath-shaped and U-shaped recoveries?
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Mending the buck
Martin Steward asks how investors might analyse money market funds after last year’s shock to the system
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Collateral quality is key
Many pension funds stopped their securities lending programmes last year, particularly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. One year on, has this changed? This month’s Off The Record survey looked at how pension funds approach securities lending.
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Doing mortality to death
To invest time following the progress of International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) pensions project is generally to waste part of an otherwise productive existence.
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A deeper shade of green
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds’ integration of ESG.
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Diary of an Investor: Job security
Off to Zurich for a day with my colleagues from around Europe. The English talk ‘brainstorming’ and think ‘outside the box’ but we on the continent want to avoid storms.
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Future foundation
Liam Kennedy discussed the investment philosophy of Germany’s VolkswagenStiftung with its CIO, Dieter Lehmann
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Leading fund strategies
Nina Röhrbein outlines leading European pension funds’ investment strategies
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Your money or your life
Life settlements are emerging as a viable form of exposure to the longevity asset class. Martin Steward asks if there is any place for them in a pension fund portfolio
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The time is right
Paul Kelly and Mitchell Cole discuss why captive reinsurance companies can be useful tools in dealing with DB pensions
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Euro lottery
The final meeting of the IASB’s Standards Advisory Council in 2007 was memorable for two reasons. First, participants, including the German delegates, were required to stand and observe a one-minute silence to honour British war dead. Second, of particular interest to those Belgian entities hit by a recent IASB decision ...
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FeaturesDawn of a new normal
In the first article covering a new global study, Jim McCaughan, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan argue that what asset managers do next will decide their industry’s fate
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Rebuilding trust in DC
DC plan members carry all the downside risk in the UK and Ireland, and took a particularly bad beating in 2008. Gail Moss assesses what can be done to improve the situation
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Nerves of steel
Hugh Smart of the British Steel Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about his approach to dynamic decision making in a portfolio split between liability matching and return generation
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The real carry trade
If you buy into the emerging-market growth and commodities stories, maritime investments could offer another way to diversify your exposure, writes Martin Steward
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FeaturesEastern values show promise
While Western financial services world languishes, Pirkko Juntunen notes that firms in the East, such as The BMB Group, appear to be cashing in on opportunities for growth
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Crunch-time commodities
Oil prices have driven a commodities rally this spring as crude rose from its low of early 2009. How is this backdrop affecting investors’ attitudes towards commodities? This month’s Off The Record survey sampled pension funds’ attitude towards commodities.
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Big is not beautiful
I have mixed views about big fund managers merging. It is not obvious what the benefits are for us at Wasserdicht Pensioenfonds. Our consultant has traditionally (and I think mistakenly) recommended big firms simply because they were big. But big to huge to utterly enormous is not a life cycle ...
