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Features
UK Pensions Regulator: TPR bares its teeth
Since UK retailer BHS entered administration in April, leaving its two pension funds with a combined deficit of £571m (€743m) on a buyout basis, questions have been raised about the ability of the UK Pensions Regulator (TPR) to hold the industry to account.
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Interview: Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, National Pension Commission of Nigeria
Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the head of Nigeria’s National Pension Commission tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about plans to extend pension provision in Africa’s most populous country
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Research: An inventive retirement solution
Governments should issue bonds that encompass both the accumulation and decumulation phases for defined contribution participants, argues Arun Muralidhar
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Research: Driving an energy transition
Jane Ambachtsheer discusses the outcome of an initiative to raise investor awareness of climate change and focus efforts on clean energy investment
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BlackRock dominates as LGIM joins 10 largest managers
BlackRock continues to dominate the asset management world, managing a third more in assets than Vanguard, the second largest manager (€4.398trn to €3.091trn), according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Tax targeting continues
Pressure to clean up the financial sector has led to copious legislation from Brussels.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: No clarity on hedgies
Not all pension funds are abandoning hedge funds. And the ones that are could be making the same mistake that investors often make – basing decisions on the past.
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From Our Perspective: France rallies to the cause
Opposition to funded pensions has long been popular in France. Trade unions suspect that they will act as a Trojan horse for Anglo-Saxon capitalism and social welfare policy, which would undermine the country’s solidarity-based pension system. Politicians shy away from using terms like ‘pension funds’.
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British Steel Pension Scheme: Steeling for a battle over pensions
As the UK faces the prospect of its steel industry winding down, attention has focused not only on the possibility of a temporary nationalisation of some of the assets owned by Tata Steel but also on the fate of the British Steel Pension Scheme
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Ethical pressures mount
There are plenty of indicators of rising pressure to advance ethical standards across the financial sector. One outcome takes the form of mountains of clean-up legislation, including from Brussels.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: The robo-race starts
Robo-advisers are gaining ground in the US retirement industry. Their success will have an impact on the market, accelerating the shift of assets out of actively managed funds and into index funds
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AnalysisAnalysis: Petro-dollar crunch hits GCC sovereign wealth funds
Cyril Widdershoven looks at the unique problems facing the sovereign wealth funds of the Gulf Cooperation Council
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Beefing up the CMU
Inadequacy of European national court systems in the financial sphere is due for overhaul. Upgrade is necessary if the EU’s capital markets union programme (CMU) is going to get anywhere, according to a high-status paper
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: The Yale effect
Good things come in small packages. It sounds so true reading the latest annual National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Commonfund study of endowment performance.
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FeaturesBanks and LDI
The rise of liability-driven investments (LDI), pairing cashflow-matching assets with forecast liability streams, has developed in tandem with a broad, overall maturing of the liabilities of the European occupational pension sector
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FeaturesDutch Funding: Facing a painful squeeze
Dutch pension funds’ nose-diving coverage ratios underline just how futile various measure have been in improving funding and minimise rights cuts
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FeaturesUK Local Government Pensions: Choose your partner
After years of debate, concrete details regarding the future of the UK local authority pensions sector are emerging
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PLSA Investment Conference: Industry embraces FCA asset management review
The question of whether the asset management market is working for pension funds and other investors, as the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is asking, was a theme at the UK pension fund association’s conference in Edinburgh.
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FeaturesFrom Our Perspective: Cost pressures
A few pension funds have led the charge against perceived excessive investment management fees. Hedge funds and private equity have come under pressure but long-only managers have not escaped scrutiny
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Race to upgrade EFSI
Legislative moves to support the EU’s European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) are being rushed through Brussels. But, so far, evidence of any torrent of fund movement by the institutional investment sector across EU frontiers has yet to emerge.
