All Features articles – Page 162
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Partial passport smacks of timidity
Sheila Nicoll welcomes the European Commission’s response to UCITS III but argues it could have gone further
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Technology no longer isolated
Pension funds are dealing with the need for up to date systems to cope with enhanced compliance, investment and member communication demands. Rachel Fixsen reports
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Bulgaria’s new pensions landscape: looking over the horizon
Although now freer to invest, Bulgaria’s pension system struggles against frequent legislative changes, a black economy and corruption, writes George Coats
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Climbing the economic league table
The decision to award Poland and Ukraine the European football championship in 2012 is likely to provide a further fillip to their already rapidly developing economies, write Audrey Villanger and Marco Parigi
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Wrestling with supervisory serpents
Are regulations and red tape strangling Europe’s second pillar pensions? The reaction of UK legislators to pensions scandals such as Robert Maxwell’s raid on his company pension fund has been to tighten up the rules and regulations governing occupational pensions schemes. Similarly, the regulatory response to pension fund deficits in ...
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BVK leads the way on diversification
The greatest prize for a German asset manager is a mandate from BVK, not necessarily for the fees but the influence it can bring. Jan Wagner asked its chief investment officer Daniel Just how it makes this financial clout work for itself
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Regulation versus self regulation
IPE asked three pension representatives – in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK – the same question: ‘Are pension benefit protection schemes a necessary evil?’ Here are their answers:
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Solvency II nears maturity
International ambitions for Solvency II emerge as reforms for capital adequacy take shape, writes Jeremy Woolfe
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Value added is core
Value-added is a much-used term in the securities services business, but it is a definition that quickly becomes redundant as clients come to expect more from their providers. It doesn’t take long for a value-added service to become a core part of a custodian’s standard offerings. Now, custodians provide a ...
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Looking back and looking forward
After 13 years with the pensions provider and asset manager Cordares and its predecessor, the Sociaal Fonds voor de Bouw-nijverheid (SFB), departing chairman Joep Schouten looks back at a career that started on the shop floor. Leen Preesman reports
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Bringing skill to the fore
Fixed income managers in Europe are increasingly targeting areas such as derivatives, currency and emerging markets but, as Joseph Mariathasan discovers, not everyone excels at shouldering this extra responsibility
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A changed landscape
Investment consultants are adapting their models to cope with increasing demands from clients, finds Pirkko Juntunen, but they face competition from investment banks and boutiques
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A trustee’s flexible friend?
Andrew Campbell-Hart finds that DB insurance can be a versatile and cost-effective means of protecting sponsors and trustees from deficit risk
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'Toxic waste' in pension funds
Are American pension funds affected by the sub prime mortgage crisis? And how deeply? A definite answer may come only in a few months. In the meantime there is a lot of denial together with suspicion and fear. For sure, investment banks have been offering RMBS (Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities), CDOs ...
