All Features articles – Page 152
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Taking to custody
Heather McKenzie finds that the wide variety of CEE markets, from Russia to Albania, are waking up to the need for financial infrastructure
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Displacement theory - and why this time isn't different
When does market exuberance become a bubble? Some argue that the Chinese equity market is different. Their optimism could be dangerous
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What did we learn from the downdraft?
Richard Johnston of Albourne Partners Asia assesses the data to see how well Asian hedge funds coped with the equity slowdown in 2007
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Revising the first draft
Hungary has modified its initial second pillar pensions architecture to introduce multiple portfolios, Thomas Escritt reports
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Keep a wary eye on politics
Stefano Pighini recently left Italian energy giant Ente Nazionale per l’energia Elettrica (Enel) where he had been head of Enel pensions funds from 2002-04. George Coats asked him about his career.
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A new frontier in risk
Scott Donald has some advice on how should investors incorporate illiquidity into their thinking and outlines five strategies which could be applied
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Watch out for the gorilla
What do CIOs think this year will hold? Pirkko Juntunen asks 11 of them
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Patience and time
Silvio Vecchi, CEO and CIO of the European Patent Office’s pension scheme, tells David White of the importance of patience and time in avoiding the turbulence of the capital markets – a successful strategy given the fund’s growth
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IGFCSS to manage supplementary plan
The parametric reforms introduced since 2002 will have the affect of reducing the growth of first pillar pensions.
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Addressing the default setting
Simon Hildrey reports on shifts within the asset allocation of UK DC default funds – the most popular option for DC scheme members
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Allocating decision making
Joseph Mariathasan assesses who is best placed to assume asset allocation decision making for pension funds
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The strategic landscape
George Inderst charts broad trends in the allocation of pension fund assets
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Belgium set to bridge OFP gap
Belgium’s pensions regulator, the Banking Commission, is to announce the funding details for the organisation for financing pensions (OFP), the recently unveiled legal entity designed to host pension funds, on 6 December.
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Inefficiencies at the heart of Europe
When it comes to post-trading there seems little harmony across Europe, with different models in different countries. Heather McKenzie looks at ways in which these processes might be improved
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FeaturesThe benefits of globalisation
In the second in a series, Amin Rajan and Neeraj Sahai discuss the causes and consequences of globalisation for pension funds
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Taking account of quants
Some quantitative investment models performed erratically this summer, leading to losses for investors in some high profile hedge funds. Liam Kennedy asks two quant specialists about this summer’s events and the lessons for investors
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Keeping the pension fund commandments
One of the persistent grumbles from pension fund managers is that, although they themselves would approve a particular investment strategy or move into a particular asset class, they would never be able to persuade their trustees or governing boards who do not have a sufficient grasp of investment principles to ...
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FondInps awaits green light
A final plan for the reform of Italy’s pension institute, INPS (Istituto Nazionale di Previdenza Sociale), will be presented by the Italian labour ministry before the end of the year.
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Shifting to alternatives
Rachel Fixsen assesses recent trends in the asset allocation decisions of European pension funds
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FeaturesNew broom at FRR
Nicholas Sobczak, FRR’s new CIO tells George Coats that he wants to show the French how useful the financial markets can be in securing pension promises
