All Features articles – Page 63
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IPE Pension Fund Personality of the Year 2012 - Geraldine Leegwater
The mind behind the blueprint for success A distinction of winning the coveted IPE Pension Fund Personality of the Year Award is that this is the readers’ choice. By voting for ABN AMRO Pension Fund’s Geraldine Leegwater, they are acknowledging the leadership qualities and dedication she has ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2012 - Lars Rohde
The perfect swansong What better way to end your career at one the world’s leading pension funds than to be honoured by your peers for your outstanding contribution to the industry? That is exactly what has happened this year to Lars Rohde, soon to step down ...
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IPE Real Estate Outstanding Industry Contribution 2011 - GRESB
Seeds of changeThe Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is a far-reaching and innovative initiative to assess the environmental and social performance of public and private real estate investments. The dynamic benchmark is to be used by institutional investors to engage with fund managers and listed property companies to improve ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2011 - PensionsInfo
Next level in sophisticated pensions communication Denmark’s PensionsInfo became the first comprehensive online pensions service in the world that allows any member of any pension scheme in Denmark to check a whole range of information on their pension. This is a truly innovative development that is taking the principles of ...
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IPE Real Estate Outstanding industry contribution 2010 - APG/PGGM/USS
The joint APG Asset Management, PGGM Investments and the Universities Superannuation Scheme study carried out by the University of Maastricht into the environmental impact of real estate investments was far more than a courageous step. It was a ground-breaking initiative that has since helped shape theinstitutional real estate investment market. ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2010 - Chris Verhaegen
Chris Verhaegen’s influence on the European pension funds industry is immediately apparent in the pages of IPE. In one instance she is commenting on trans-Atlantic co-operation between pension fund associations; in another she is offering her views on the new European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority ...
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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 ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2009 - Anton van Nunen
The Darwin of the pensions world Anton van Nunen is much more than a highly respected pensions specialist: he is a trendsetter whose innovative fiduciary management model is revolutionising the way pension schemes view their investments and structural organisation. His concept has played a significant part in ...
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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 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 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 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 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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From Our Perspective: Under the thumb
Some occupational pensions and their regulatory systems were designed for another era. Increasingly, fixed-rate annual accrual or guarantee systems, like German and Swiss Pensionskassen, look like relics.
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A thin regulatory line
Back in the 1990s, the UK created a Child Support Agency, whose objective was to ensure errant fathers and mothers pay due financial maintenance to estranged offspring
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Research: An inventive retirement solution
Governments should issue bonds that encompass both the accumulation and decumulation phases for defined contribution participants, argues Arun Muralidhar
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Stapi
Arne Vagn Olsen, CIO of Stapi, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s asset allocation strategy as the capital controls on Icelandic pension funds are gradually lifted
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Research: Driving an energy transition
Jane Ambachtsheer discusses the outcome of an initiative to raise investor awareness of climate change and focus efforts on clean energy investment
