All Features articles – Page 58
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ATP: Steady as she goes for ATP
The announcement of Christian Hyldahl as ATP’s new chief signals a steady-as-she-goes approach in turbulent financial times, at the same time as a strong focus on operational efficiency for the giant Danish labour market pension fund.
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Global Debt: Caution in a world awash in debt
John Bilton, Michael Feser and Stephanie Flanders look at the effect that excessive leverage within the global capital markets can have on long-term economic growth
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Back to basics
There is a danger that the investment world could pay too much attention to geopolitics in 2017. Although politics is important, there is a risk its current high profile could obscure more fundamental factors.
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Conference Report: Defined benefit diagnosed – next, remedies
The future for UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, new regulation for master trusts, a visit from the new pensions minister – all this and more was on the agenda of the national pensions association’s annual conference in late October.
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Disruptive Technologies: Rising to the blockchain challenge
Jeff Conway says financial instutitions that ignore the potential benefits of blockchain and other disruptive technologies will be left behind
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Letter from Brussels: Securitisation snared
Legislative efforts to boost European securitisation are facing headwinds. A regulation proposed in September 2015 is still being scrutinised by the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee which has suggested over 100 amendments.
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FeaturesNeuromarketing: Cerebral pension matters
What happens when you put members in an MRI scanner? The Dutch pension provider APG has done just that. Gail Moss outlines how understanding the subconscious and intuitive neural processes that affect decision-making can benefit pension providers and members
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Diary of an Investor: Diversity counts
Recently we had to admit that the trustee board of the Wasserdicht Dutch pension fund isn’t very diverse. Of course, we fulfil the requirement to have one female trustee and one under the age of 40 and have for some time
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Hedge funds deserve more love
There is a disconnect between perception and reality when it comes to hedge funds which could lead to poor decisions by institutional investors.
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Discount Rates: Discounting dilemmas
As risk-free rates edge towards zero or below in many regions, questions must be asked about discounting methods, according to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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FeaturesHow we run our money: ENPAM
Emilio Giorgi (pictured), chief risk officer at ENPAM, Italy’s largest private pension fund, talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about its commitment to investing in projects that directly benefit its members
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Pension Fund Performance: Third-quarter results: equities lead the way
Rebounding equity markets over the third quarter bolstered year-to-date (YTD) returns at many European pension funds, particularly in the Nordic region.
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Focus Group: The foresight saga
Almost a third of investors, seven out of 23 polled for this month’s Focus Group, consider a hard landing in China to be the biggest economic or political risk facing the global markets in 2017.
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Pension Investing: Is the tide of globalisation turning?
In the first of a series of articles, Pascal Blanqué and Amin Rajan argue that Britain’s vote to exit the EU will hit asset valuations, mainly via political contagion rather than corporate profits
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President Trump
The election of Donald Trump as US president represents a sea-change in politics and for a second time in less than six months, following the UK’s Brexit vote, investors are left unscrambling the implications for markets over various time horizons.
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator November 2016
Summer is over. Gone for the next nine months are the warm nights, and worry-free days…correction, only the warm nights have gone. The worry-free days did not exist this summer, and they still do not.
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Accounting: Just ignore the FRC
The UK government’s release of documents under the Freedom of Information Act has brought into question the Financial Reporting Council’s pronouncements on distributable profits. Stephen Bouvier explores the issue
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Ahead of the Curve: Trend-following - quality not quantity
Stephen Wood explains why a single well-researched trend-following investment model can produce better results than simply relying on diversification using different models
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Asset Allocation: The big picture
In most elections, pollsters do their best to gauge voting intentions. However, until the votes are cast, experience has shown that exercising a more cautious pre-election stance is probably advised
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Trump fixation obscures bigger picture
Donald Trump is such a lurid character (to put it politely) that it is all too easy to become obsessed with him. That helps explain why there is so much fraught discussion of him even outside the US
