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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Palico: Online dating for LPs and GPs
As our main feature reveals, there are more than a few private equity limited partners (LPs) facing resource problems as the industry fragments and spreads beyond the traditional centres of North America and Western Europe, at the same time as disrupted investment cycles clog up the cash-distribution and fundraising pipeline. LPs are struggling to keep abreast of new managers and markets, or even stay on top of their increasingly crowded and complex portfolios.
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Country Report
And yet another pension reform
‘Never postpone what you can do now’ is probably one of the most common-sense rules the French endeavour to follow.
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IP Asia
Private Equity - What’s in store for India
Joseph Mariathasan looks at the development of private equity in India.
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Opinion Pieces
The growth agenda
The European Commission’s green paper, Long-term Financing of the European Economy, is a rarity– it gets applause from all quarters.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Retirement concerns
“Our priority is to be sure that Americans save enough for retirement,” explains CEO and executive director of the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA), Brian Graff. The problem is that Americans are not saving enough, because of the way pension plans are offered and structured, and because of the economic situation.
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Features
All eyes on auto-enrolment
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats may be consistently ahead in the polls and occupational pensions are not likely to play any role at all in the forthcoming German parliamentary elections. Yet as we report in this issue, there is a flutter of interest in auto-enrolment into workplace pensions on the part ...
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Features
‘Rip-off culture’ rejected by Swiss electorate
More than five years into the current financial crisis, one could be forgiven for thinking parts of the financial industry have returned to business as usual. The perception, based only in part on fact, that executive pay is rising sharply while other incomes are stagnating eventually led to the backlash ...
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Country Report
Austria: Who will take the first step?
The effectiveness of recent law changes to increase participant choice and attract more members to Pensionskassen remains unclear, finds Barbara Ottawa. Employers are waiting to see who will move first
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Country Report
Austria: Reality check
Natalie Hahn reviews the implications of the recent second-pillar pension reforms for pension members and their funds
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Country Report
Germany: Wanted: a simpler, stronger second pillar system
The German second pillar appears to have taken a backseat in discussions about reforming the country’s pension system, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Germany: A wish list
Nina Röhrbein asked the German pensions industry what it wants for the occupational pension sector
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Country Report
Germany: Forced into strategic moves
Occupational pension funds are adapting their investment strategies to continuing low-interest rates and the impending IORP Directive. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Country Report
Germany: A study of dream versus reality
Spezialfonds investors would ideally like greater exposure to higher-returning real estate, alternatives and equity, according to Hans-Jürgen Dannheisig and Clemens Schuerhoff
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Country Report
Germany: We have a few questions
As far as the IORP II quantitative impact study is concerned, the German occupational pension sector does not know what it is good for. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Herding cats... and other insurance-linked risks
It is not always easy to tell what someone means when they talk about ‘insurance-linked investments’ – but distinctions are imperative because the various components of this complex market present very different risk and return profiles.
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments:Integrating catastrophe risk
Reinsurance risk is clearly diversifying against pension funds’ core financial market risks. But Martin Steward writes on the importance of defining objectives beyond simple diversification when investing in this asset class
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: AQR Re: where quakes meet quants
Martin Steward met the reinsurance team established by quantitative asset manager AQR Capital Management
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Special Report
Insurance-Linked Investments: Consider your options
Options strategies offer premiums for insuring against financial market risks. Joseph Mariathasan looks at strategies that attempt to collect these while protecting against the worst of the tail risks
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Features
A day to explain Dutch ambitions
This year we held the annual global strategy meeting of the Wasserdicht Pension Funds in the Netherlands. As this year’s organiser, I suggested a pleasant country house hotel near Hilversum.
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Opinion Pieces
Step-change for DC
“Our retirement philosophy is changing the industry”. So says Glenn Dial, head of retirement for Allianz Global Investors (AGI). Dial has been in charge of this business in the US since February 2011, focusing on a target-date strategy that is reinforced by the findings from AGI’s Centre for Behavioural Finance.
