All Features articles – Page 132
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Stay dry in a crisis
Nina Röhrbein spoke to Gerhard Neustädter, head of asset management at Bonus Pensionskassen in Vienna, about his fund’s approach to managing assets and risk
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Diary of an Investor: Nelson’s telescope
A phone call from Alan, my Wasserdicht colleague in England. ‘Pieter, we all have been visited by the FSA and it is not good.’ ‘What is not good?’ ‘We have this thing in the UK called ‘governance’ and pension funds are being blamed for not exercising enough of it, and this inaction has helped fuel the financial turmoil and market downturn.’
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FeaturesExit Interview
Alick Stevenson recently retired as director of investments at the UK’s £3bn (€3.24bn) Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund, after six and a half years
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FeaturesIt’s good to talk
As pension fund investment within the sphere of alternatives grows, David White reports on an innovative platform designed to educate managers about the field through the medium of shared experience
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In-house tactics
Nina Röhrbein spoke to Timo Ritakallio, deputy CEO and head of investments at Ilmarinen, Finland’s oldest mutual insurance company, about how its investment strategy is coping with the financial crisis
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Italian regulator urges mergers
The new head of Italy’s pensions regulator has made it clear that a consolidation of pension funds is necessary for the future of the industry.
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FeaturesMake the portfolio sweat
Liam Kennedy spoke to the BVK’s Daniel Just and André Heimrich about the progress they are making with their diversification programme
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The OCI trap
At its 23 January meeting, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) voted to scrap the options in IAS19 that allow pension plan sponsors to defer the recognition of what are often referred to as actuarial gains and losses in a entity’s profit or loss account.
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The old ways are out
Convertible bond issues have been thin on the ground in this recession, but sooner or later even highly-rated large-caps may tap the market for refinancing, says Lynn Strongin Dodds
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FeaturesStrategy refuses to be written off
Unexpected market events may have once more severely affected convertible arbitrage but the strategy continues to hold attractions for institutional investors, finds David White
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FeaturesThe advantages of conservatism
Portuguese pension fund asset allocation has been criticised in the past for a traditional approach that lost out on potential gains. But George Coats finds that at a time of market crisis it may limit losses
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FeaturesHarness the winds of change
Ben Funk, Tzvety Petrova, and Dominik Nagly of Liongate Capital argue that recent unprecedented volatility can create opportunities for carefully selected hedge fund strategies
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