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Features
Lending risks are exaggerated
Patient investors will benefit from an exposure to alternative credit
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FeaturesPainting a pension picture: ABP to offer visual insight into benefits
The €389bn Dutch civil service scheme ABP is to offer participants a visual insight into the pension rights they have accrued under its defined benefit arrangements.
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The impaired financial instruments standard
From January 2018 IFRS 9 will replace the IASB’s existing rule book
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FeaturesInterview: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School
When President Harry Truman asked to be sent a one-handed economist, he aptly summarised the conundrum that Andrew Lo sets out to resolve in his book, Adaptive Markets.
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The tribulations of a democratic SWF
Government indicates that unlisted infrastructure brings on board new risks that the Norwegian public will not like ‘Discretionary bets’ and ‘operational mistakes’ seen as big risks that the oil fund should avoid
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: EU seeks to avert Brexit arbitrage
Strong words on Brexit are flying in political circles. But behind the theatre, concerns about the future of London’s fund management sector are emerging
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: High fees but strong returns
Some US pension funds say they may be paying too much for their investments in private equity and are seeking different approaches
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FeaturesFrom Our Perspective: Pension roads to Rome
Around the beginning of the 2000s enthusiasm for pension funding was at a high. As Germany took measures to unwind the cosy ‘Rhineland capitalism’ cross-share-holdings, book reserve pension liabilities seemed like yesterday’s solution
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Analysis
Analysis: US pipeline controversy causes Nordic issues
The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has split opinion in the US and divided pension funds in the Nordic region.
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Analysis
Analysis: A German battle for consensus over DC plans
This year’s occupational pension conference hosted by the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt became an impromptu tribute, of sorts, to the influential pensions pioneer Bernhard Wiesner.
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FeaturesObituary: Bernhard Wiesner, pension pioneer
Bernhard Wiesner died in March aged 62 in a motorbike accident in Mallorca, his chosen retirement refuge.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A warm reception for PEPP
In contrast to complaints that Brussels’s legislation burdens the financial sector, the European Commission may be gratified by the positive response to its flagship Capital Markets Union (CMU) programme.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from the US: Risk transfer hots up
With interest rates rising, the US pension risk transfer market is expected to grow substantially
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From Our Perspective: Two decades of shifting perspectives
This spring marks 20 years since the first issue of IPE. Our founders Piers Diacre and Fennell Betson started this publication with an assumption that funded pension systems would become more widespread in time, leading to increased diversification and a need for clear, well-researched and well-presented information.
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Norges Bank Investment Management: Strategy shift at Europe’s biggest investor
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), arguably the world’s most watched institutional investor, is considering adopting a risk-factor approach.
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BHS Pension Scheme: The UK Pensions Regulator and the pariah
On 28 February came the news for which 19,000 former staff of the collapsed high-street chain BHS had been waiting: its former owner, Sir Philip Green, was to pay £363m (€414m) to prop up the company’s two pension schemes.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Brexit and equivalence
Nothing could be clearer. For the financial sector, at least, there is nothing to fear from Brexit. All the UK has to do is to apply to the EU’s rules – the crucial term ‘equivalence’
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Further uncertainty
The US retirement industry faces uncertain times after the Department of Labor decided in March to delay by 60 days the implementation of the so-called fiduciary rule. But many companies have already executed the new rule, and will not go back
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AnalysisAnalysis: Long-term investors – all talk, no walk?
Research went looking for long-term investors, but came up empty-handed, finds Sue Rust
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FeaturesFrom Our Perspective: Be wary of shredding the regs
The Trump administration maintains that some of the Dodd-Frank legislation brought in following the financial crisis should be repealed or amended
