All Features articles – Page 64
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Diary of an Investor: It’s the way you say it
Wasserdicht’s Dutch pension fund is looking to improve the way it communicates with members. Or as Rolf, our chairman of trustees, puts it, the way we talk about bad news
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Convexity: the perfect trade?
Chris Brandt outlines how investors can make use of convexity in fixed income portfolios
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FeaturesCommunication: Lessons from Scandinavia
The UK can learn from Scandinavia as it seeks to implement a pensions dashboard by 2019
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ESG: The circle of life
Susanna Rust delves into the circular economy and why it matters for long-term institutional investors
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Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global: Changes at the margins for oil giant
Falling inflows from oil revenue to Norway’s leviathan Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) will not change the NOK7.1trn (€762bn) sovereign wealth fund’s investment strategy or its need for diversification, according to the fund’s second in command.
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ESG: PGGM gets serious on carbon reduction
PGGM, asset manager for the €172bn Dutch healthcare pension fund PFZW, is to divest the scheme’s stakes in more than 200 mining, steel and energy companies in a bid to halve its investment portfolio’s carbon footprint.
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Investment: Brexit proofing
Christopher O’Dea reports on the implications for institutional investors arising from the UK’s referendum on European Union membership
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Bond Strategy: Time to reallocate?
Nimisha Srivastava and Harald Eggerstedt call for a rethink of fixed-income investment in the face of the ECB’s asset purchase and QE programmes
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Stop blaming foreigners
Recent weeks have seen some nasty exchanges over the causes of Europe’s economic plight
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Macro Matters: Beware the exit genie
Most Brexit speculation seems to be focused on consequences for the UK should it leave the EU, says Bob Swarup. But the result could well be the beginning of the end for the European project
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UK Pensions Regulator: TPR bares its teeth
Since UK retailer BHS entered administration in April, leaving its two pension funds with a combined deficit of £571m (€743m) on a buyout basis, questions have been raised about the ability of the UK Pensions Regulator (TPR) to hold the industry to account.
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Focus Group: Anxieties over Brexit effects
More than 70% of respondents to this month’s Focus Group on the possible British exit (Brexit) from the EU say that the European economy would be worse off if the UK votes to leave in this month’s referendum.
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Interview: Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, National Pension Commission of Nigeria
Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the head of Nigeria’s National Pension Commission tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about plans to extend pension provision in Africa’s most populous country
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Interview: Ros Altmann, UK Pensions Minister
Implementing long-term policy in a political world dominated by the short-term news cycle seems horrifyingly difficult. Unlike the primarily consensus-driven policy making of our European neighbours, UK public policy is frequently devised with more than half an eye to news headlines.
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Europe is already one economy
In the midst of the 2012 euro-zone crisis, American economist Fred Bergsten called the euro-zone a “half-built house”. In an outspoken article in the September/October 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine he argued that, to solve the crisis, the flawed institutional design of the euro-zone had to be improved.
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Asset Allocation: The big picture
As 2016 opened, the fate of emerging market assets was tied to fears of renminbi devaluation and the collapse in commodity prices. Now market focus has moved, and with a bounce in commodities it is Chinese economic news, as well as the ever-important Fed pronouncements, that determine mood.
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Ahead of the Curve: There’s gold in currency trading
Christopher Cruden makes the case for investing in gold by treating it as a major currency
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Accounting: Play it again, Sam
The IFRS Foundation’s latest effectiveness review has drawn criticism. But you could be forgiven for thinking you have read it somewhere before
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BlackRock dominates as LGIM joins 10 largest managers
BlackRock continues to dominate the asset management world, managing a third more in assets than Vanguard, the second largest manager (€4.398trn to €3.091trn), according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey.
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Currency hedging 2.0
Ugo Lancioni, Fredrik Repton and Nikola Petrovic argue that it is possible to make currency hedging more forward looking and better integrated into asset allocation
