All Features articles – Page 62
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Asia: Work in progress
Mark Mobius sees a positive future for the Philippines under new president Rodrigo Duerte who looks likely to build on the success of the previous administration of Benigno Aquino III
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Exit Interview: Shier looks back on a labour of love
Philip Shier is what they call an industry veteran. An actuary by trade, he will be retiring from Aon Hewitt at the end of July after more than 30 years at the consultancy. The move follows another significant departure this year for Shier.
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Brexit: Scheduled for departure
The political and economic ramifications of Brexit are wide-ranging. The effect on Gilts, sterling and equity markets was immediate in the aftermath of the referendum.
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Diary of an Investor: What chain?
Last year, if anyone had mentioned blockchain my first associations would have been Bitcoin, the dark web and cybercrime. But such new concepts have a habit of shifting shape
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Risk Management: Clear and ever present
Alastair Sewell outlines how the insidious nature of liquidity risk affects investment strategies
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ESG meets credit
Susanna Rust reports on a new joint initiative involving fixed income investors and credit rating agencies
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Resaver: Researchers in cross-border test
A pension plan for European academics could become a model for cross-border pensions, writes Barbara Ottawa
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From Our Perspective: Matters of culture
In Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, not only are all the women strong and all the men good looking, but all the children are above average
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How to fight populism
A striking shift has happened in recent years. Developing countries used to be seen as unstable, while advanced economies were viewed as stable
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Focus Group: Split on high pay for trustees
Nine (40%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say diversity is important or very important on a pension fund board. Just two consider it to be unimportant, although 11 are ambivalent about the issue.
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Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global: Fund urged to help foster tax transparency
As a small country in charge of a not-so-small sovereign wealth fund, it is hardly surprising that the NOK7.1trn Government Pension Fund Global’s power for good or bad causes some level of anxiety in Norway
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Italy's pensions reform: No more tinkering
Only four years since the last pensions reform, the Italian government is once again discussing further changes to the system.
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2004 - Alan Pickering
Common sense and political realism wins friends across Europe Alan Pickering wears so many hats within the pensions arena that it would be impossible to hazard a guess as to why IPE readers and others selected him from 20-plus other individuals and organisations nominated for the Outstanding ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2005 - Koen De Ryck
Peers acknowledge the ‘constant gardener’ of European pensions This year’s winner of the Award for Outstanding Industry Contribution goes to Koen De Ryck. He was the clear favourite among the 18 candidates who were on the list that IPE readers were asked to vote on. That comes ...
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IPE Real Estate Outstanding Industry Contribution 2006 - Anne Maher
A sure hand on the tiller It says much about a person when a pensions regulator heads the poll for this Award. This is what Anne Maher, chief executive at the Pensions Board in Ireland, has done. In fact, the end of her stint at the ...
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IPE Real Estate Outstanding Industry Contribution 2007 - Lisette van Doorn
When Lisette van Doorn won the Outstanding Industry Award at the 2nd IPE Real Estate Awards in 2007, real estate investing by European pension funds – particularly in private funds – was still a fledgling industry. And in order to help the European investment market mature ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2007 - Keith Ambachtsheer
The pension thinking revolutionary Thought leadership is a well worn term but one sure practitioner in the pension fund world is Keith Ambachtsheer, who has been voted by our readers as winner of this year’s IPE Gold Award for outstanding industry contribution. He is perhaps most familiar ...
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IPE Real Estate Outstanding Industry Contribution 2008 - Paul McNamara
It is no surprise that Paul McNamara had remained with Prudential for just over 21 years when this was written. This is the kind of loyalty and devotion you would expect from somebody who since beginning his career on completing his PhD worked relentlessly on taking ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2008 - Philip Neyt
Heart of the matter Some people bring a dedication and commitment to their work that is truly commendable and shows a degree of leadership most could only dream of. Usually modest and humble in their approach, these are the outstanding thought leaders that take their industries to ...
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IPE Real Estate Outstanding Industry Contribution 2009 – Andrea Carpenter
Andrea Carpenter’s experience and tenacity as director of research and marketing at INREV – the European Association for Investors in non-listed real estate – directly contributed to the sector ’s strong stance in the face of extreme adversity at the time. Carpenter joined INREV in 2007 and brought with her ...
