All Features articles – Page 91
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Haggling with the hedge funds
For this month’s Focus Group Survey, we asked 19 readers about hedge funds.
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The fiduciary fight
Should trustees feel constrained by the existing interpretation of their fiduciary duties?
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Expect more scrutiny on systemic relevance
A transformation is taking place in the five-year performance track records of countless investment funds and strategies as this year fades out and the impact of the market collapse of late 2008 is erased.
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The UK fiduciary duty straitjacket
Should trustees consider environmental concerns, or even more widespread systemic issues, when investing on behalf of their beneficiaries?
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New combatants in an uncertain war
Despite the single market Commisoner Michel Barnier’s recent concession that the European Commission would not attempt to publish a draft of the revised IORP Directive with its controversial capital requirements attached, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) is pushing ahead with several consultations on the holistic balance sheet (HBS)
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Closing questions
David Paterson, former head of corporate governance at the UK’s powerful National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) who retired in October 2013, held the last phase of his post during the Shareholder Spring of institutional investor action in 2012, when governance clashes were front page news.
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Focus Group: Resistant to change?
Less than half of the 19 investors polled for this month’s Off The Record survey (eight respondents) allocate to hedge fund strategies.
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Public sector challenges
Gail Moss speaks to Eva Kiwit of EAPSPI, the voice of public pensions at European level
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Castilian discipline
Nina Röhrbein asked Jaime Martinez-Gómez about the governance, risk and portfolio strategies of Fonditel, the manager of Telefonica’s Spanish pension fund
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More buckets
Last month, for the first time, we experimented with a new approach to our monthly international strategy meeting. Video conferencing.
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Corporate bonds go electronic
Amid the ongoing debate about the best market structure for cash credit, Rupert Warmington draws attention to the rapid expansion of electronic trading
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The art of engagement
One trend to emerge from the financial crisis has been an improvement in engagement, as Nina Röhrbein finds
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Risk management under the AIFMD
Kai Braun and Désirée Springmann describe the major changes ahead for private equity and real estate fund managers
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The search for yield
Managers believe that high-yield bonds still offer up plenty of opportunities, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Time to get together?
In an ideal world, pension fund mergers create advantageous economies of investment and administration scale that benefit members, pensioners and sponsors long term. In the real world, pension funds are complicated to merge, not least because social partners often demand that everyone has a seat around the board table.
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Funds to increase infrastructure investment
Nearly two-thirds of pension funds and other institutional investors expect their allocations to infrastructure to increase over the next 18 months, according to a survey by IPE and Stirling Capital Partners.
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Focus Group: Equities falling out of favour
The average equity allocation in the portfolios of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey is around 36.7%, down from just over 40% 10 years ago.
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Spotlight on money doctors
Holding investment consultants to account is a healthy exercise. And indeed, one recent study on investment consultants’ recommendations has attracted headlines and controversy.
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Denmark narrowly retains global supremacy
Denmark’s pensions supremacy was once again confirmed in October with the publication of the fifth annual Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index.
