All Features articles – Page 89
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Let’s be clear on solutions
The growing number of services marketed to UK DB pension funds as ‘solutions’ means it is time for clear definitions, believes Magnus Spence
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Cutting a tranche of yield
The current levels of default risk and the ability to tailor exposures to portfolio requirements make CLOs and CDOs potentially attractive for pension funds, writes Geoffrey Randells
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Rising sun or false dawn?
Daniel Ben-Ami looks back on a year of ‘Abenomics’, and finds optimism in the early hours of a new day for Japan’s economy and markets
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Dutch design
The long and winding road of Dutch pension reforms has reached an interesting juncture: will the country stay true to its collective DB past, or turn into DC country?
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A look over the horizon
In the second of a two-part round-up, Stephen Bouvier invites leading pensions accounting practitioners to identify the issues to watch in the year ahead
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Hot topics
IPE’s overview of the main regulatory and legislative developments affecting workplace pensions in key European countries
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Investment therapy
René van Pommeren and Ada Wouters-Brongers of the Dutch physiotherapists’ pension fund tell Nina Röhrbein why their fund is unusual in the Netherlands
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Always the season for corporate governance
Before the start of the 2014 AGM season it’s time to review that infamous voting season – the so-called Shareholder Spring of 2012.
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ATP challenges sales tax rules at ECJ
The debate over whether services to occupational pension schemes should be subject to value added tax (VAT) is a familiar one within the industry. Three cases have now found their way to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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Back to the future
Pension fund boards and their investment teams should form a new partnership to promote flexibility in strategy, argues Théodore Economou
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National benefit calculation
When they came under criticism, Canada’s top 10 pension funds hired blue-chip consultants to find out what they contributed to the national economy, Christopher O’Dea writes
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Better governance – to what end?
Before Gordon Gekko launches into his “Greed is good” speech, the CEO of Teldar Paper harangues him as the face of the “short-term profit, slot machine mentality of Wall Street”. But Gekko isn’t like the high-frequency traders or quarterly earnings-obsessed benchmark huggers whom we tar with that brush.
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Double bottom line
Eugene O’Callaghan, investment director of the National Pensions Reserve Fund, tells Liam Kennedy about the business plan for the new Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and progress so far in transitioning the portfolio into one with a dual mandate for returns and economic impact
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The Canada factor
If only our pension funds could be more Canadian – which is to say, large, well-governed institutions that are prominent and successful investors. Canada has these in spades, counting among its ranks four of the top 20 biggest global real estate investors and also four of the top 20 infrastructure investors respectively.
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Spread wealth with caution
Back in the days when the roar of Ireland’s Celtic tiger economy echoed across Europe and the wider world, the country was widely praised for its foresight in 2001 when it created a sovereign fund, the National Pension Reserve Fund, with the proceeds of the sale of Telecom Eireann.
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How do you colour-code that?
At Wasserdicht Pensioenfonds, some of our trustees have started to scrutinise our internal investment organisation.
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From recycle to growth cycle
Brian Bollen asks whether a pick-up in corporate and economic activity can awake the loan market from a torpor of refinancing
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De-risking poised for growth but risks remain
Consultants’ hopes that the UK de-risking market would rebound in 2013 appear to have been fulfilled. This follows an underwhelming 2012 during which transaction volumes fell by a half.
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Sustainability is key in farmland
Nina Röhrbein looks at the future of farmland as an asset class
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Focus Group: Shareholder voting policy
Thirteen of the 18 investors polled for this month’s Focus Group have shareholder voting policies – and of those that do not, just one is working on such a policy.
