Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 299
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Features
Time to get together?
In an ideal world, pension fund mergers create advantageous economies of investment and administration scale that benefit members, pensioners and sponsors long term. In the real world, pension funds are complicated to merge, not least because social partners often demand that everyone has a seat around the board table.
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Features
The correlation breakdown is secure
You may have heard option traders talk about the ‘volatility smile’. Recent events might add a new term to the traders’ lexicon: the ‘risk-free yield curve smile’.
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Features
African ESG dilemmas
This year’s Principles for Responsible Investment in Person conference in Cape Town, South Africa, focused on two things – ESG issues and Africa.
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Features
Spotlight on money doctors
Holding investment consultants to account is a healthy exercise. And indeed, one recent study on investment consultants’ recommendations has attracted headlines and controversy.
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Features
Denmark narrowly retains global supremacy
Denmark’s pensions supremacy was once again confirmed in October with the publication of the fifth annual Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index.
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Change is afoot in the corridors of Brussels
Not a month goes by now, it seems, without some new major development in EU policy. First came the final reporting guidelines for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in September.
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Features
State of flux continues for Dutch
With the recent announcement of proposals for a “middle way”, Jetta Klijnsma, state secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs, seemed to have turned the corner in the ongoing debate over the revised financial assessment framework (FTK). The pensions sector has now shown a broad consensus about the new direction.
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Features
Funds to increase infrastructure investment
Nearly two-thirds of pension funds and other institutional investors expect their allocations to infrastructure to increase over the next 18 months, according to a survey by IPE and Stirling Capital Partners.
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Opinion Pieces
ESG 2.0 – let’s get serious
The responsible investment community has done something very important. It has raised awareness that institutional investors who define their job as beating the peer group benchmark are being irresponsible – stewardship responsibilities for the long term are now on the agenda. But the current trading-oriented model of investment is impossible to align with these responsibilities.
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Opinion PiecesElizabeth Corley: “Drawing on behavioural science, we should be thinking more holistically about income lifecycles”
For everyone managing pension funds, or their investments, or indeed managing our own retirement planning, one of the greatest challenges is to maintain a focus on achieving long-term strategic goals amid the constant buffeting of contradictory news and the distraction of more pressing concerns.
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Interviews
Have you adapted your emerging markets strategy recently?
EM market turmoil is no game changer
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Features
The age of the default fund
UK DC pensions will see a boost in members and assets as auto-enrolment kicks in over the coming years. Sally Ling looks at best practice for governance and default funds
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Features
Bring on the lawyers
A recent legal opinion on behalf of UK local authority pension funds has ignited controversy, according to Stephen Bouvier
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Features
Too big to fall short?
A new government has broadened the mandate of the Norwegian sovereign pension fund. Nina Röhrbein assesses the changes
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Features
A new chapter
Martin Steward speaks to Cecila Thomasson Blomquist at PP Pension, whose DB business relies on dynamic asset allocation around a solid real estate core, and whose DC business is undergoing major changes
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Unity is strength
Rachel Fixsen charts the ongoing trend towards consolidation in the Danish pension market
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A thematic search for yield
Casper Hammerich outlines key findings on asset allocation from the eighth Nordic Investor Survey
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A shift to alternatives
Nina Röhrbein reviews recent Nordic institutional investor mandates
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Country Report
Nordic Region: The search continues
Reeta Paakkinen finds Finnish pension investors continuing to seek alternatives to traditional equities and fixed income
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Fine-tuned for yield
Reeta Paakkinen assesses Ilmarinen’s recent changes to its asset allocation
