All IPE articles in July 2009 (Magazine)
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Features
Euro lottery
The final meeting of the IASB’s Standards Advisory Council in 2007 was memorable for two reasons. First, participants, including the German delegates, were required to stand and observe a one-minute silence to honour British war dead. Second, of particular interest to those Belgian entities hit by a recent IASB decision ...
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Opinion Pieces
Solvency II
The European Commission called representatives of the European pensions and insurance industry and member state officials to a public hearing in May to thrash out a harmonisation of solvency rules for cross-border company pension schemes (IORPs). But most attendees were not receptive.
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint
“The real goal of risk management is to give decision makers a more intimate understanding of their portfolio”
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Features
Dawn of a new normal
In the first article covering a new global study, Jim McCaughan, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan argue that what asset managers do next will decide their industry’s fate
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Features
Rebuilding trust in DC
DC plan members carry all the downside risk in the UK and Ireland, and took a particularly bad beating in 2008. Gail Moss assesses what can be done to improve the situation
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Country Report
Arrivederci to the era of La Dolce Pensione
Italy can no longer afford a generous state pension, that left little room for private provision. But there is little appetite for a new approach following the financial and economic crises, finds George Coats
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Country Report
Divided views on raising the retirement age
Politicians, trade unions and employers have different opinions on the desirability of further reforms, finds Maria Teresa Cometto
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Country Report
Less is more
The new head of the Covip supervisor has taken office with a lively agenda. Maria Teresa Cometto examines his new proposals
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Opinion Pieces
PBGC woes
What a difference nine months can make. At the end of last September, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) closed its fiscal year with a deficit of ‘only’ $11bn (€7.9bn) and its director Charles Millard was busy implementing his new “less conservative” investment strategy, under which the majority of the $55bn assets was to be shifted out of bonds and into riskier stocks and alternative asset classes.
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Features
Nerves of steel
Hugh Smart of the British Steel Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about his approach to dynamic decision making in a portfolio split between liability matching and return generation
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Country Report
Three into one doesn’t always go
Everyone agrees that pension fund mergers are a good idea. But doing something about it is another matter, finds Carlo Svaluto Moreolo