Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 271
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Features
Russia in the limelight
With or without the situation in Ukraine, the shooting down of flight MH17 and international sanctions, the economic outlook for Russia is questionable. We asked two respected observers whether pension funds should pull out
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Features
Blank canvas for Swedish banking fund
After a year and a half of deliberation, SPK’s new investment strategy is finally coming together. When the SEK24bn (€2.6bn) pension fund for saving bank employees moved into its new premises in central Stockholm at the beginning of the summer, it did so with a completely transformed investment portfolio.
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Opinion Pieces
“The best CDC design is collective implementation with clear ownership rights”
Designing a robust retirement income solution is not easy – as with most complex issues, there are no silver bullets, only trade-offs. The challenge is to balance life-long retirement income stability with financial risk-taking, all within a framework that is understandable, transparent and fair and hence can be trusted by members.
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Features
Burying IFRS Stateside
For more than a decade, international accountants have dreamed of a single set of global accounting standards. But the failure of standard setters on both sides of the Atlantic to agree on a common treatment for bad-debt provisioning by banks leaves the world facing a multi-GAAP environment for at least a generation, writes Stephen Bouvier
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Features
Risk-sharing professionals
Gail Moss compares how self-employed professionals are served by specialist collective DC pension funds in three European countries
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Features
How we run our money: Aisle four - asset management
Steven Daniels, chief investment officer at Tesco Pension Investment, tells Taha Lokhandwala about his role as Tesco’s in-house asset manager
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Country Report
Liberalising ambitions
This looks set to be a defining year for UK pensions, as auto-enrolment shapes up and key reforms for defined ambition pensions are introduced, writes Taha Lokhandwala
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Country Report
All change
Carlo Svaluto Moreolo outlines how auto enrolment is changing the defined contribution pension landscape
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Country Report
An emotional business
Tim Jones, CEO of NEST, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo how the master trust is dealing with its customer base in its attempt to raise awareness of pensions and its model to reduce transaction
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Country Report
A national rule for local funds
Taha Lokhandwala looks at radical proposals to reform local government pension investment in England and Wales
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Country Report
Ten years of LDI
Barry Jones wonders how many people in 2004 would have thought investments would be the single biggest investment exposure for UK schemes by 2014
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Country Report
Risk off
Carlo Svaluto Moreolo looks at the supply and demand issues shaping the pension de-risking market
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Country Report
Does DC stand for Duty of Care?
Sally Ling looks at two areas that came under the scrutiny of the Law Commission in its review of the fiduciary duties of UK investment intermediaries – defined contribution (DC) providers and investment consultants
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Country Report
A buoyant de-risking market
Charlie Finch reviews market practice in buy-ins, buyouts, longevity swaps and LDI
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Country Report
Dutiful fiduciaries
Paul Lee outlines the perspective of the NAPF on the Law Commission review and its implications for pension funds
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Country Report
A nationwide debate
Leen Preesman sets the stage for the consultative debate on the pensions system that will take place throughout the Netherlands this autumn
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Country Report
Focus on the future
What should be the focus of the national pensions dialogue? IPE asked leading figures where the discussions should go
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Country Report
Risk clarity and better contacts
The new FTK is all about smoothing rough edges. Pension funds will have more time to implement cuts and market fluctuations will play less of a role, write Olaf Boschman and Frank van Alphen
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Country Report
Implications of FTK
Dennis van Eck outlines the changes contained within the new Dutch FTK and the effect they will have upon pension funds
