Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 426
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IP Asia
Reassessing your investment approach
How have Asian asset allocators reacted to the financial markets crisis? Richard Newell assesses the impact the crisis has had on traditional views of asset allocation and what recommendations the investment community is putting forward for institutional portfolios in this new investing environment.
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IP Asia
CAT bonds an alternative in correlated markets
CAT bonds expose investors to infrequent, extreme weather.
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IP Asia
Still work to do in India
Joseph Mariathasan talks to Gautam Bhardwaj, one of the architects of India’s pension reform.
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Features
AMF bonuses become a toxic issue
The outrage sweeping Europe and North America at bonus payments and large pension pots awarded to executives of loss-making financial services entities is also reflected in Sweden. The highest profile victim is AMF, Sweden’s largest pension insurance company and one of its most trusted brands.
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Features
Time to rethink Irish benefits
Accrued benefits in defined benefit (DB) schemes have previously seemed off-limits for employers looking to cut costs. But with an estimated 90% of Irish DB schemes failing the minimum funding standard it may be time for a rethink.
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Features
CEE funds air crisis challenges
The financial crisis and economic recession are taking their toll on the stability of the pension reforms, Chris Verhaegen, secretary general of European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP), told her organisation’s 24 March conference in Budapest on the private pension systems in central and eastern European countries.
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Country Report
Cross-border developments
The EU Commission has published the findings of a consultancy process on pension solvency it launched last year. Cornelia Schmid assesses the process and outlines the view of the German corporate pension fund association (aba)
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Country Report
Who’s afraid of BilMoG?
As the domestic accounting reform BilMoG passes into legislation, Alfred Gohdes and Nigel Cresswell assess the implications for German corporates
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Special Report
Prepare for inflation shock
Thomas Thygesen looks at how best to ease into an optimised and diversified exposure to an inflationary scenario
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Opinion Pieces
A stockpickers’ market
History suggests a good decade ahead for equities, but good stockpicking will enjoy handsome returns even in a stagnating market, argue Habib Subjally and Perry Winfield
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Special ReportShining the light of transparency
Efforts are increasing to stamp out corruption and to restore confidence in global capital markets. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Special Report
Credit crunch reshapes custody
Demand for custodians’ services is rising as the credit crunch forces trustees and pension boards to pay attention to previously neglected areas of risk, finds Iain Morse
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Features
Regulatory Risk
Wasserdicht Pensionskasse in Frankfurt invited me to talk to them about risk. ‘You can tell us what you think we should do and what you think best practice should be in terms of risk management. And we have asked an EU regulator to talk to us. You will like him’.
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Special ReportGetting a grip
The financial crisis has uncovered the shortcomings of traditional asset-class and market diversification. Martin Steward asks whether there is a better way
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Country Report
A review of performance
Austria’s government has responded to the poor 2008 performance of pension funds by establishing a pension reform commission to discuss possible changes to the system. George Coats makes an assessment
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Country Report
The asset management view from Vienna
Nina Röhrbein asked two Austrian asset management CEOs about the impact of the financial crisis
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Country Report
Case for complexity
Liam Kennedy spoke with Dr Boy-Jürgen Andresen, a grandee of German pensions who is shortly to retire as chairman of the board of Watson Wyatt Heissmann
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Country Report
Two pairs of eyes
Clemens Schuerhoff and Hans-Jürgen Dannheisig argue that the German regulatory principles have helped maintain investors’ trust in the asset management and servicing sectors
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Country ReportKeep it simple
Frank Schnattinger gives an overview of the most recent IPE Institutional Investment survey of German investors attitudes and intentions
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Country Report
Funding in a changed world
Liam Kennedy assesses the measures German companies are taking to address pension funding issues and future plan design
