All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 9
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Features
Resilient in adversity
Passive management has had its fair share of knockers in the last few months. Consider the recent assertion by Paul Woolley, chairman of fund manager GMO Woolley, that passive investment may be popular, but that it is undermining equity returns and promoting market bubbles and implosions. Woolley argued that by ...
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Features
Getting a grip on markets
Rick Lacaille, head of the structured product group at State Street Global Advisors is optimistic about the long-term growth prospects for indexing across the Europe – despite the current market turmoil. For Lacaille, the gradual shift by European pension funds from fixed income into equity is part of the same ...
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Special Report
Message from on high
Hermes, the pensions management firm, wholly-owned by the BT pension scheme, is living up to its moniker with the unveiling of its new corporate governance charter – ‘The Hermes Principles’, which it believes could send an important message to institutional shareholders about how they invest in companies. The 10 principles, ...
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News
Hermes unveils corporate governance charter
UK- Hermes Pensions Management, the investment firm owned by the BT pension scheme, has unveiled a revolutionary new corporate governance charter – ‘The Hermes Principles’, which it believes will revitalise the interests of institutional investors in investee companies.
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Features
Overcoming the admin hiatus
The opening up of the market for providers of administration outsourcing to European pension schemes is one of those areas where much of the talk has yet to be followed by action. While the rationale for the outsourcing of the ‘back office’ has been successfully argued and won in many ...
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Features
Global control is gaining ground
Multinational companies are increasingly instituting centralised governance practices in their global pension management practices, as well as seeking to exert influence on the asset allocation decisions of their various pension funds world-wide, according to the findings of a new survey by consultant Watson Wyatt. The survey, which Watson claims to ...
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News
Morley beefs up UK institutional team
UK - Morley Fund Management has beefed up its UK institutional team with the appointment of Angela Campbell as a consultant sales director and Andrew Richmond as a client relationship manager.
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Features
Preparing for the long haul
While German insurance companies and investment banks have been gearing themselves up for the new Riester market, the significance of the developments in German has not escaped foreign players, in particular, with an eye on the huge predicted asset flows in Europe’s largest economy. International asset manager, Invesco, is one ...
