All Focus Group articles
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Interviews
Focus Group: March 2018
We asked a group of 24 pension funds with total assets of €164bn their views on the current risks and opportunities
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Interviews
Focus Group: Risks get real
We asked a group of 30 pension funds with total assets of €293bn what risks the markets will face during 2018
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Interviews
Focus Group: Extending credit
We asked a group of pension funds with total assets of €28.2bn about their use of credit
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Interviews
Focus Group: Spotlight on research costs
Pension funds have largely been absent from the debate about MiFID II and research costs. We asked a group of pension funds with total assets of over €330bn for their views
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Focus Group: EMD inspires confidence
We asked a group of European pension funds with total assets of €180bn about their emerging market debt strategies
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Focus Group: Diversity more than a ‘trend’
We asked a group of European pension funds with total assets of €110bn about governance
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Interviews
Focus Group: Credit risk worth taking
We asked a group of European investors with total assets of €84.4bn about their appetite for alternative credit. The answers confirm that the sector is set to grow further.
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Interviews
Focus Group: Risk-factor strategies in favour
Over three-quarters of the respondents to this month’s Focus Group are allocated to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts, with four of these considering further allocations
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Interviews
Focus Group: Do consultants add value?
Three-quarters of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say investment consultants have added value to their investment portfolio
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Features
Focus Group: Geopolitical risk concerns
Twenty-five (86%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say geopolitical risk has increased over the past 12 months
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Features
Focus Group: A changing climate
The average listed equities allocation in the portfolios of funds polled for this month’s Focus Group is 31%, with the level of respondents’ allocation ranging from 10% to 59%
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Features
Focus Group: Let’s squeeze fees
Thirteen of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group are in favour of asset managers quoting an ‘all-in’ fee. This involves all fees and charges including transaction costs
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Features
Focus Group: The foresight saga
Almost a third of investors, seven out of 23 polled for this month’s Focus Group, consider a hard landing in China to be the biggest economic or political risk facing the global markets in 2017.
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Features
Focus Group: Warm on EM investment
Just three of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group have increased their allocation to emerging and frontier markets in the past three years
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Features
Focus Group: Too much debt around
Just over half of the respondents to this month’s focus group are restructuring, or planning to restructure, their fixed-income portfolio. Of these, 10 are moving towards a more active management.
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Features
Focus Group: The fall-out from Brexit
Thirteen (62%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group expect the European economy will be worse off once Britain leaves the European Union
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Features
Focus Group: Split on high pay for trustees
Nine (40%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say diversity is important or very important on a pension fund board. Just two consider it to be unimportant, although 11 are ambivalent about the issue.
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Features
Focus Group: Anxieties over Brexit effects
More than 70% of respondents to this month’s Focus Group on the possible British exit (Brexit) from the EU say that the European economy would be worse off if the UK votes to leave in this month’s referendum.
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Features
Focus Group: The importance of credit
Seventeen (71%) of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say that credit has become more important in their portfolio over the past five years
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Features
Focus Group: Risk-factor investing concepts
Just over half of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group currently allocate assets to strategies that employ risk-factor investing concepts
