All Features articles – Page 65
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Pensions should have a wider purpose
Pension funds like to emphasise that their key goal is to provide sustainable retirement income to their members.Yet many pension funds spend significant resources on addressing issues that go beyond providing pensions
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Solidarietà Veneto
Paolo Stefan, director of Solidarietà Veneto, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the Italian fund’s regionally-focused investment strategy
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Private Equity Fees: Standardisation still elusive
A string of initiatives has attempted to resolve the complexity and opacity of private equity fees. One of latest such initiatives has received mixed reviews from European investors
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Economics trumps demographics
The challenges facing Swiss pension funds owe more to economics and less to demography than is generally realised.
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Up the knowledge curve
Public understanding of long-term investment can be limited. Repeated exercises in the Netherlands have shown that when pension fund members are asked about their investment-risk tolerance, they say they want a higher return and no risk
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Focus Group: The importance of credit
Seventeen (71%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say that credit has become more important in their portfolio over the past five years
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Diary of an Investor: Stretch and flex with credit
Years ago, people used to claim that the equity-risk premium was the most important metric in a pension fund’s long-term investment plans
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From Our Perspective: France rallies to the cause
Opposition to funded pensions has long been popular in France. Trade unions suspect that they will act as a Trojan horse for Anglo-Saxon capitalism and social welfare policy, which would undermine the country’s solidarity-based pension system. Politicians shy away from using terms like ‘pension funds’.
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Canada’s model evolves
Pension funds have tripled in size since 2003, largely thanks to investment returns. Joel Kranc examines the Canadian model
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Infrastructure: A benchmark for rebuilding trust
Pension investors’ interest in infrastructure assets has been rising in recent years, with more than half of those surveyed by Preqin for its most recent investor outlook, saying they would increase exposure to the asset class in future.
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Behind Chinese walls
Liyu Zeng and Priscilla Luk analyse the challenges in designing a benchmark to measure the performance of both offshore and onshore listed companies
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British Steel Pension Scheme: Steeling for a battle over pensions
As the UK faces the prospect of its steel industry winding down, attention has focused not only on the possibility of a temporary nationalisation of some of the assets owned by Tata Steel but also on the fate of the British Steel Pension Scheme
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Asset Allocation: The big picture
The quite well anticipated easing from the European Central Bank (ECB), followed by the US Federal Reserve’s more surprising lowering of its expectation ‘dots’, proved supportive for risk assets as the first quarter of 2016 ended
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Ahead of the Curve: The investment conundrum
Alan Porter argues that investors should favour businesses that prioritise long-term capital investment rather than simply seeking out those paying high dividends
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Accounting: Lease liabilities are real liabilities
Stephen Bouvier explores the implications for pension liabilities of the IASB’s new leasing standard
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Proxy access: Flexing muscles
Big US public pension plans want listed companies to include shareholders’ director nominees in company proxy statements
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Negative rates are truly negative
It is instructive to remember that only a few years ago it was common for negative interest rates to be dismissed as impossible.
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FeaturesHow we run our money: Industriens Pension
Laila Mortensen, CEO of Denmark’s Industriens Pension, tells IPE about her efforts to improve the fund’s main pension product
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ESG: Investment in society
Jonathan Williams reports on niche bonds that are growing in prominence as they move into areas previously filled by charities and the government
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FeaturesDutch Funding: Facing a painful squeeze
Dutch pension funds’ nose-diving coverage ratios underline just how futile various measure have been in improving funding and minimise rights cuts
