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FeaturesInterview: Matti Leppälä, PensionsEurope
PensionsEurope’s CEO discusses the challenges faced by the sector under the changing regulatory environment
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Iceland: Pension fund ownership comes under the microscope
Like any major earthquake, Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008 has had its aftershocks.
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Investment returns: Record year for equities boosts European pensions
In a year full of records for equity markets, European pension funds posted positive results – with most improving on their 2016 investment returns
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Opinion PiecesLetter From The US: ESG strategy not just divestment
ESG investing is a hot topic in the US pension fund industry. “One dollar out of five from institutional investors is going into ESG investing”
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AnalysisAnalysis: Pension policy promises in draft German coalition deal
Pensions portal, state pension sustainability, standardised Riester all mentioned in coalition agreement, reports Susanna Rust
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AnalysisAnalysis: UK trustees urged to plan for worst in the wake of Carillion collapse
Several connected pension schemes are being assessed for entry into the PPF, with members’ benefits set to be reduced
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Analysis: ATP’s tax policy highlights risk to reputation in offshore investments
The EU’s first-ever blacklist of tax havens has given politicians and pension funds another chance to consider the ethics of investing via opaque or tax-light locations
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Letter From Brussels: Brexit focus moves to pensions
As the risk of a no-deal Brexit comes into focus, attention is turning to ways to mitigate the damage across financial services, including asset management and pensions
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Plans act on Trump tax reform
The tax reform signed by President Donald Trump last December is having quite an impact on the US pension industry
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FeaturesBritish Steel: Ground-breaking restructuring gives way to advice controversy
BSPS members faced a choice between a new scheme with lower benefits or dropping into the Pension Protection Fund
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FeaturesMary Robinson: ‘We need a just transition’
Mary Robinson, the former Irish president and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, gave a keynote address at IPE’s 2017 Conference. Afterwards she talked in more detail to Daniel Ben-Ami about how she sees the world
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Long-term investing: Equities will experience gravitational pull
This second article on a new survey argues that investing will remain a relative-value game
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Letter from Brussels: Easier securitisation on the horizon
The EU’s securitisation package has finally passed through the European Parliament and Council. However, the new rules will not be applied until January 2019
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Opposition to mission creep
The EU’s controversial mandate for a radical shake up of financial supervision has received a cool reception from the pensions sector as well as smaller EU members
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: DC plans shift from mutual funds
An increasing number of DC plans, including 401(k) schemes, are choosing CITs in the US, according to the latest report from Cerulli Associates
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FeaturesIs transition risk dead in the water?
Investors have been warned about transition risk related to climate change for some time. But these warnings feel incongruous with recent updates about greenhouse gas emissions and the outlook for global warming
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New pensions system is still a long way off for the Netherlands
2020 deadline looks less realistic amid delays and disagreements as to how new sytem should work
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FeaturesInterview: Alan Rubenstein, UK's Pension Protection Fund
When Alan Rubenstein sat down at his desk on his first day as CEO of the UK’s Pension Protection Fund (PPF) in 2009, his in-tray must have been overflowing
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Research: The return of long-term investing
“Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others” according to John Maynard Keynes, one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century
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AnalysisAnalysis: Could the UK’s largest pension scheme close… and re-open?
Employers have proposed a ‘temporary’ switch to DC-only that could be reversed in the future if DB funding improves
