All articles by IPE staff – Page 25
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Features
How secure is your lending?
IPE asked three pension funds in three countries – Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands – the same question: ‘Does securities lending represent free revenue for pension funds or does it carry underestimated risks?’ Here are their answers: Michael Nellemann Perdersen, CIO at PKA, which groups eight pension funds in ...
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Special Report
Listening to the investors
Corporate governance has been described as the “architecture of accountability”. How satisfied are primary investors with the accountability of real estate managers and their funds? IPE asked several major investors for their views on the subject. Our questions – which were supplied by Jonathan Fenton at law firm DLA ...
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Features
Risk sharing on agenda
Pension fund deficits and international accounting pressures are encouraging employers in some European countries to move from defined benefit (DB) pension plans to defined contribution (DC). The effect is to shift the financial risk of the pension from the employer to the individual employee. So can pensions be designed to ...
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Special Report
Model for governance?
IPE asked three pension funds in three countries - in Austria, the Netherlands and Finland - the same question: ‘Is there or should there be a basic European template that could be adopted for pension fund governance or should it be left to national practice?’ Here are their answers: ...
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Features
Guarantees - whose business?
IPE asked three pension funds in three countries – in Denmark, Belgium and Germany – the same question: ‘Should pension funds offer a minimum guarantee?’ Here are their answers: Hervé Noël, director of the pension funds of Suez-Tractebel in Belgium which has AUM of e1.33bn “We have had a ...
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Features
Managing your custodian
IPE has teamed up with Amaces, a UK-based provider of analytical and benchmarking services to pension funds and fund managers, to give readers an insight to performance standards within the securities services industry On a quarterly basis, Amaces will provide IPE with a table of live data drawn from its ...
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News
Agenda set for key EU meeting on directive
EUROPE - More details have emerged about a meeting set to take place next week at the European Parliament aimed at resolving some of the questions about the transposition of the European directive on occupational pension funds.
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Features
Managing home bias
IPE asked three pension funds in three countries – in Finland, Ireland and Switzerland – the same question: ‘Do pension funds have a duty to invest in local industries?’ Here are their answers: Bríd Horan, general manager of Ireland’s ESB Pension Fund, which has AUM of e2.8bn. “Irish pension ...
