Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 301
-
Opinion Pieces
A Lithuanian bottleneck
Yet another Brussels go-slow on IORP II legislative revisions? Yes, but it’s not just rules for occupational pensions. A let’s-put-off-until-tomorrow syndrome is hammering swathes of financial legislation and the Brussels machine is now close to deadlock.
-
Opinion Pieces
Activist stances
US public pension funds are slowly recovering from their worst years, 2008-09, when their assets fell to a low of $2.1trn (€1.6trn). In the latest fiscal year ending 30 June 2013, assets increased 8.4%
-
Features
Adding the best of DB to DC plans
In the final article in the current series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that despite the demise of DB plans, the baby is unlikely to be thrown away with the bath water
-
Features
Politics and sovereign wealth
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global is now the third-largest institutional investor in the world, after Japan’s Government Pension Fund and China’s SAFE
-
Features
Will Draghi repeat Trichet’s mistake?
This month, one of the interviewees for our Strategy Review advises us to “look at the strength of the euro”
-
FeaturesPolish reform: A lot not to like
Managers of Polish pension funds can at least be grateful their industry has not been entirely nationalised
-
FeaturesNorwegian oil fund: unification or division
As the largest pot of institutional money in Europe and the third largest in the world, the Norwegian Pension Fund Global was bound to be the topic of debate during Norway’s recent election
-
Features
Polish reform bid upsets markets
The government’s proposed reform of its second-pillar system unnerved the markets amid widespread criticism from home and abroad
-
Features
Can a pension fund be too big to fail?
Will the Financial Stability Board extend the ‘too-big-to-fail’ resolution to pension funds?
-
Features
IASB: Plans on disclosure
The International Accounting Standards Board has always had a problem with disclosure
-
Features
IORP II: Keep it proportional
PensionsEurope gives a general thumbs-up to Brussels’ planned improvements to governance standards for occupational pensions
-
Features
Actuaries in business
Liam Kennedy asked Jonathan Punter and Stuart Southall about their careers as actuaries, entrepreneurs and dealmakers in the world of UK pensions
-
Opinion Pieces
Per Linnemann - Independent consulting actuary
“Smoothed income annuities could revive the pension fund industry”
-
Interviews
Do you invest in real assets?
Nina Röhrbein speaks with France’s ERAFP, Denmark’s PFA and the Netherlands’ PGGM
-
Features
Command, control and organisation
Gail Moss outlines the duties of the investment committee chair – one of the most influential positions in a pension fund
-
Features
Phoenix from the ashes
Antoni Canals tells Nina Roehrbein about his views on diversification at Pensions Caixa 30, one of Spain’s most diversified occupational pension funds
-
Country Report
Spain: A flight to the known
Spanish pension funds have increased their domestic government bond holdings as economic confidence slowly returns. Gail Moss reports
-
Country Report
Spain: Crisis prompts overhaul
Social partners are set to agree changes to state pensions, according to Gail Moss, while the industry awaits detailed proposals aimed to boost supplementary pensions
-
Special Report
German Asset Management: Seeking urgent clarification
New regulations on credit ratings due diligence could prove challenging for investors and asset managers alike, according to Nina Roehrbein
