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News
Dutch pension funds' 'search for yield' cancels out cost-cutting efforts
Survey notes added cost of infrastructure, mortgages, credit, direct loans and emerging market equities
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Former PIMCO boss takes aim at 'high-risk, high-fees' culture
Bill Gross sues company he founded for $200m in colourful lawsuit
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ABP breaks ranks with peers in accepting high private equity fees
Successful managers in position to demand high fees, CIO concedes
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Special Report
Top 400: A better deal on fees
Fee structures are imperfect and may be poor value. Nick Sykes outlines ways they could be improved for institutional investors and investment managers
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Manager ‘intransigence’ over fees threatens industry, says LCP
Consultancy warns that lack of fee disclosure by minority of industry is damaging reputation
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IPE Views: Hedge fund fees
IPE contributing editor Joseph Mariathasan explores whether hedge funds can justify their fees
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Asset managers increasingly willing to negotiate on active management fees
Increasing number of managers willing to increase outperformance threshold to 2 percentage points
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UK legacy schemes granted year to tackle problem of high fees
Proposals put forward by Independent Project Board ’shockingly weak’, say critics
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Special Report
Special Report, Fees & Costs: Winds of change
Brendan Maton reports on the anxious vigilance around costs in pension fund management, but finds progress to be frustrated and incomplete.
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Special Report
Special Report, Fees & Costs: Coming together to cut costs
Caroline Liinanki finds Danish pension providers merging and teaming up to cut investment costs as they reach the limits of what they can achieve themselves.
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Special Report
Special Report, Fees & Costs: If the price is right
Surveys suggest that investors feel more could be done to make private equity fund terms fairer. But Jennifer Bollen finds that pension funds also recognise that simply squeezing costs may not be the wisest approach.
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Special Report
Special Report, Fees & Costs: Selling fees short
Hedge fund fees have fallen and managers have come around to the idea of negotiating on them, writes Joseph Mariathasan. But structures still need to be more sophisticated.
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News
Fixed fees most often not in investors' best interests, study shows
Only when third-party managers are very skilled can fixed fees be the right choice for clients, says Cass Business School
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Report: No justification for lack of full disclosure on investment fees
London’s Cass Business School calls for managers to fully disclose all cash, non-cash costs affecting asset performance
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Diversified Growth Funds under pressure to cut fees
Consultants seek changes from DGF managers as 75bp cap looms on default workplace pensions
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Special Report
Europe’s Pension Consultants: Are fees wasted?
After a recent academic paper raised serious questions about consultants’ competence in manager selection, Gail Moss talks to the industry about the nuances of the research and the defence of their practices
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News
UK government bows to internal pressure on DC fees disclosure
Opposition takes credit for ‘forcing government’s hand’
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Country Report
Nordic Region: High salary, high fees
Well-paid Swedes face high charges if they opt out of the ITP pension system in favour of a private plan, finds Rachel Fixsen
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NewsHedge funds with higher fees perform better, study shows
GLOBAL – Managers charging more than 20% saw best net returns over past six years, Preqin says.
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Features
The end of fees as we know them
Taking to the stage on the first day of the National Association of Pension Funds Investment Conference in early March, Paul Marsh of the London Business School unwittingly set the tone for the rest of the event.
