All Features articles – Page 82
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Climate risk takes centre stage
This September’s United Nations Climate Change summit in New York combined political and show business razzmatazz with the gravitas of investors like Mats Andersson, CEO of Sweden’s AP4 pension fund, who addressed the UN General Assembly.
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ESG: A means to capture value
Hendrik du Toit and Therese Niklasson tell Nina Röhrbein about ESG integration at Investec
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Infrastructure: Pension funds turn back on middlemen
European pension funds have long been aware of the benefits of infrastructure but, in 2014, the idea of co-investment with other pension funds has become a much more realistic option.
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How we run our money: In search of a future-proof ATP
Henrik Gade Jepsen, chief investment officer of ATP, tells Caroline Liinanki why he thinks the fund must adapt its portfolio structure
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A-shares on the rise
There are signs that European institutional investors find Chinese equities interesting. Finland’s Ilmarinen now separates China equity holdings (A and H-shares), in its reports, and Denmark’s AP Pension has boosted its China equity exposure to 5%, although it has excluded domestic property and banks.
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Interview - BVI: When special becomes alternative
Thomas Richter, CEO of the German Investment Funds Association, discusses the AIFMD, the future of Spezialfonds and opt-out models for occupational pensions with Barbara Ottawa
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Asset Allocation: The big picture
There is an uncomfortable sense that many market outlooks and forecasts are too sanguine about future risks and the course of US interest rates. Some asset classes are already being severely buffeted.
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Ahead of the Curve: Contagion spreads
Achilles Risvas assesses the potentially devastating knock-on effects of a fall in bond prices and a flight from credit
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ECB exercise to beef up ABS
The ECB hopes its plans to invest heavily in the asset-backed securitisation market will encourage other investors and ultimately help boost real economy lending, writes Anthony Harrington
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That’s about the size of it
In late September, one of the world’s largest pension funds ditched its hedge funds, and one of the world’s largest mutual funds lost its manager. One decision made sense, but not for the reasons most commentators put forward. The other made sense, despite all the focus on the nonsense surrounding it.
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Dollar storm ends 10-year FX calm
A full decade of range-bound trade in the dollar has dulled pension investors’ sense of the risks of currency exposure. As Christopher O’Dea reports, all that’s about to change
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Not quite a revolution
The introduction of a new accounting framework in the UK and Ireland could lead to much less upheaval in pensions accounting than some plan sponsors fear, discovers Stephen Bouvier
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Post-crisis or pre-crisis?
History warns us that the next crisis is just around the corner. Arturo Bris outlines the shapes it is taking and what we can do to mitigate it
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Pensions in the picture
Just three years after Europe’s pension fund representative bodies were successful in their proposal to create a separate occupational pensions stakeholder group within the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) – under the previous CEIOPS committee of pension and insurance supervisors a single stakeholder group covered both sectors – there is now a proposal to merge the two stakeholder groups. Although this will have to be ratified by the European Parliament, here are a few points that might help those involved understand why this issue really matters.
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Race for solutions picks up pace
Incumbent managers have a natural advantage with mature pension funds in the provision of solution-type services, finds Pádraig Floyd
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Integrity matters
While they have been few in number, the various scandals at European pension funds have brought to light the need for clear and coherent codes of conduct for pension trustees and staff, writes Gail Moss
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The high stakes of stakeholder group reform
Changes to the governance and funding structure of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) now seem inevitable, after it was adopted as one of the core policies for new European commissioner Jonathan Hill.
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Keeping it in the family
Jennifer Bollen asks why buyers of private equity secondaries tend to be owners of primary interests already, and finds the current hot market conditions explain some of the advantages
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Evergreen mandate takes root
Mark Mansley and Faith Ward of the UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund tell Jonathan Williams about the scheme’s plans for an ‘evergreen’ sustainable equity mandate and discuss how investment management agreements of indefinite length will spread
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How we run our money - Prudent and dynamic
Miguel Branco, deputy director of Banco de Portugal pension fund, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about his fund’s investment and risk strategy
