Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 322
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Features
Ireland’s challenge
Ireland’s presidency of the European Council is an opportunity for the country to showcase the progress it has made in repairing its finances and its economy since the bailout at the end of 2010.
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Features
Don’t hope for a Basel III scenario for IORP II
After the Basel Committee unveiled a softer version of the Basel III measures for banking institutions in January, the European pensions industry saw the watered-down legislation as a glimmer of hope. Many crossed their fingers that Brussels would take a similar approach to regulatory frameworks currently being developed for insurance ...
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Country Report
Ireland: The long haul
Pension funds are still missing key pieces of the regulatory puzzle, finds Jonathan Williams, despite the re-introduction of the minimum funding standard. And sponsors face lengthy recovery plans
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Country Report
Ireland: Clear intentions
Jerry Moriarty reviews the direction of Irish pension tax policy, the funding standard, sovereign annuities and wind-up plans
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Country Report
Ireland: Funding standard in context
Philip Shier outlines the issues surrounding the funding standard, and looks at European pension funding trends
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Country Report
Ireland: Reduce, derisk
Pension funds now hold a third of their assets in fixed income, and corporate bonds are set for a boost, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country Report
Ireland: Pressure mounts
Conor Daly and Fergus Collis outline the ways in which Irish defined benefit schemes are dealing with economic uncertainty and the pressures of regulation
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Country Report
Ireland: Working and retiring in Ireland
The retirement age will increase to 66 from 2014. Fiona Thornton puts these changes in context and argues that rules should be changed to allow phased benefit drawdown
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Pricing climate change
The physical and regulatory risks from climate change already exist. But Nina Röhrbein finds that the pricing signals remain suppressed by still-evolving regulatory frameworks and a lack of data
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: The seven-step programme
There is a clear route to making sure your portfolio is ‘future-proofed’ against climate change rather than a contributor to it, argues Raj Thamotheram. But, so far, very few investors are on it
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Six degrees of capitalisation
Mark Campanale and Jeremy Leggett consider whether capital markets might be mis-pricing the risks attached to fossil-fuel stocks
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘A fiduciary duty’
Nina Röhrbein hears how forthcoming changes to asset allocation at the Environment Agency Pension Fund will build upon its long record in environment-sensitive investing
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘Control is a key to success’
Rachel Fixsen talks to Tapiola Pension CIO Hanna Hiidenpalo about integrating climate risk management into the insurer’s portfolio
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘Climate risk is only one among many factors’
Nina Röhrbein finds APG grappling with data-quality problems and the challenge of being a mega-fund with a sustainability objective
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Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: ‘It’s precisely the “how” that matters’
ERAFP tells Rachel Fixsen how it applies its climate risk criteria across its whole portfolio
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Growth in the global greenhouse
Perhaps no industry is so exposed to weather and climate change as agriculture. Mike Scott outlines the potential impact and the resulting investment demands
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: A rising tide
There is plenty of water in the world – but useful water gets scarcer by the day. Mike Scott finds that managing the supply in world with a warming climate could be a compelling and diverse investment opportunity
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Special Report
Environmental Risk: The Changing Climate: Sins of emission
The bottom has fallen out of it for now, but Elisabeth Jeffries finds the EU Emissions Trading Scheme becoming the model for others around the world
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Features
AIFMD: the rush to regulate
With its mid-year implementation deadline looming, Giuseppe Rumi and Giorgio Tosetti update us on the state of play for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Hungry, growing, focused
In a world obsessed with the safe havens of multi-national mega-cap cash machines, Joseph Mariathasan revisits the case for smaller companies
