All Features articles – Page 41
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Accounting Matters: Drawing a line in the sand
Standard setters’ focus on risk-sharing pensions recalls previous abandoned attempts to reconcile non-DB and DC accounting approaches
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FeaturesAhead of the Curve: Trends to heed in renewables
Big data and predictive analytics are two developing trends that can dramatically improve how renewable energy investments are made
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Fixed income, Rates, Currencies: America leads the way
Emerging markets have endured a difficult summer. Market sensitivities were heightened by fears of a trade war and the reality that the US Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates. The flashpoints in Argentina and Turkey have focused attention on the EM universe, particularly the more vulnerable economies with less healthy fundamentals.
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FeaturesTime to beef up UK supervision
With assets of in excess of £1.8trn, DB occupational pensions easily represent the single largest stock of financial savings in the UK
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Chinese Bonds: Too big to ignore?
Recent tax reforms and the expected inclusion in global indices of Chinese sovereign bonds has shone a spotlight on a vast, under-exploited, multi-trillion bond market
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Briefing: How to model a trade war
So how does one model the effect of further tariffs on a portfolio? This article shows how to construct a potential trade-war scenario and analyse the impact on a euro-denominated global multi-asset class portfolio
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FeaturesCatching up on China
The typical investor is probably behind the times when it comes to understanding the implications of China’s rise
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Passives will move centre stage in the core-satellite model
Like digital brands, passive products will continue to benefit from the network effect, in which a product or service is perceived as more worthwhile the more people use it. The classic example is the telephone: a growing user base enhances the value to each subscriber.
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FeaturesA retirement storm is coming
Stormy weather caused disruption for delegates at last month’s Longevity 14 conference in Amsterdam – and discussions lingered on metaphorical storm clouds ahead for retirement systems around the globe.
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Ten Years Since Lehman: Reflections on the crisis
These are edited extracts of interviews with key investment figures on the fallout since the financial crisis of 2008-09
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FeaturesWaiting for the next downturn
The current global economic expansion continues more-or-less unabated but the potential causes of the next downturn seem clear
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Macro Matters: Emerging tensions
Amid all the talk of deglobalisation, certain tenets of the world remain fixed in our minds. Key among these assumptions is the status of the dollar as the global reserve currency.
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UK: Shifts in longevity
Whether or not to insure liabilities via a buyout or buy-in has long been a decision which most defined-benefit pension funds need to consider. Buyout deals have become integral to the pension fund landscape.
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Accounting Matters: Surveying the surveys
Surveys? Who needs them? We do apparently. And when it comes to pensions accounting, we cannot get enough
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Ahead Of The Curve: Resurgence of private capital
The tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis is an apposite time to examine how it changed the world for investors
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Government Bonds: Snapback risk alert
The Bank for International Settlements has warned bond yields could suddenly rise – a snapback could rapidly spread between bond markets
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Asset Allocation: The summer doldrums
Summer doldrums have a tendency to mark their arrival with volatility. This year trade tensions, particularly between the US and China, and fears of escalation are flustering shallow, and less liquid, financial markets
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FeaturesAvoiding another Lehman
Postponing the difficult decisions involved in tackling the economy’s productive weaknesses will only make matters worse
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FeaturesHolistic answers needed
Fiduciary management was conceived as a sophisticated and holistic solution to the shortcomings of pension asset management that became evident after the equity market downturn of 2000-03
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Australia’s super funds under fire from Royal Commission
An interim report into Australia’s financial services industry, including the country’s AUD2.6trn (€1.7trn) superannuation system will be published this month
