All Features articles – Page 93
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Will Draghi repeat Trichet’s mistake?
This month, one of the interviewees for our Strategy Review advises us to “look at the strength of the euro”
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FeaturesNorwegian oil fund: unification or division
As the largest pot of institutional money in Europe and the third largest in the world, the Norwegian Pension Fund Global was bound to be the topic of debate during Norway’s recent election
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IASB: Plans on disclosure
The International Accounting Standards Board has always had a problem with disclosure
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The inconstant constant
Regulation threatens the existence of Constant Net Asset Value money market funds. David Turner asks if investors will miss them
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Command, control and organisation
Gail Moss outlines the duties of the investment committee chair – one of the most influential positions in a pension fund
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Carbon investment: worth the risk?
Gyorgy Dallos argues that the financial risks associated with investing in fossil-fuel companies will increase as they extract in more hazardous places and stricter carbon constraints are enforced
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Can a pension fund be too big to fail?
Will the Financial Stability Board extend the ‘too-big-to-fail’ resolution to pension funds?
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Polish reform bid upsets markets
The government’s proposed reform of its second-pillar system unnerved the markets amid widespread criticism from home and abroad
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The rise of cross-over assets
In this second article in a new series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that the evolving diversification favours assets with bond-like features and equity-like returns
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Phoenix from the ashes
Antoni Canals tells Nina Roehrbein about his views on diversification at Pensions Caixa 30, one of Spain’s most diversified occupational pension funds
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Actuaries in business
Liam Kennedy asked Jonathan Punter and Stuart Southall about their careers as actuaries, entrepreneurs and dealmakers in the world of UK pensions
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What’s on the menu?
As CIO of the Wasserdicht Pension Funds in the Netherlands, I have quite a bit to do with our fund’s boards and committees. I am on the management board of what we now call the ‘investment bureau’ and in that role I have to sit in on many trustee board meetings as an observer and answer questions.
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UK joins the race
A new tax-transparent fund, launched this summer, puts the UK on the map for pension pooling. Gail Moss explains
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A future for swaps?
Pension funds facing new derivative-market regulation are increasingly willing to consider alternatives to traditional swaps, according to Cécile Sourbes. But the jury is still out on interest rate swap futures
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More than meets the eye
The usual selling point for ETFs is that they are cheap, but that has rarely held for institutional investors. Anthony Harrington finds less obvious, but arguably more compelling, advantages
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Nurturing Europe’s mid-market
Taron Wade and Alexandra Dimitrijevic look into efforts to expand Germany’s Schuldschein debt private-placement market to the rest of Europe
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The EM story is evolving, not ending
This month will mark five years since the Lehman bankruptcy, years that have seen some changes in pension fund attitudes to risk. Counterparty risk now matters. There is ‘tail risk’.
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Reform saga continues
The long and winding tale of Dutch pension reform entered a new chapter in July, when the council of ministers signed off on a consultation document outlining changes to Dutch pension legislation, in particular the financial assessment framework (FTK).
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Clwyd: Cultivating the difference
Nina Roehrbein speaks with Philip Latham, pension fund manager at Clwyd Pension Fund, about its unusual asset allocation strategy
