Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 350
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Special Report
Food for thought
Nina Röhrbein asks what pressure investors can put on food companies to improve their products and address health issues
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Features
Custody and banking reform
Iain Morse asks whether European banking reforms will have an adverse impact on securities services providers
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Interviews
Surviving the seven years of famine
Rogge Global Partners operates out of one of London’s most spectacular offices, the neo-Gothic Sion Hall, its traders toiling beneath the gaze of stained-glass images of heroes of the English Reformation.
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Features
Diary of an Investor: CIO talk
It is a cold Tuesday morning in March as I land at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport on my way to visit Rolf at PensionKøbenhavn, one of Denmark’s most innovative pension funds, to finalise our strategic co-operation in investment matters before board ratificiation. Geert, our recent graduate appointee in the investment department, is with me.
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Features
Boutique appeal
Two-thirds of respondents to this month’s Off The Record survey stated that their fund did not have any restrictions on allocating to boutique asset managers.
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Opinion Pieces
Funds join the fray
This proxy season in the US is likely to be highly politicised, with the public sector’s pension funds playing a big role. In fact, it will be a test for several rules introduced by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In addition, the 2012 presidential campaign is getting hotter, with the Republican candidates promising to repeal the Act, if elected. The Republicans already control the House of Representatives and might conquer the Senate, too. Moreover, if Barack Obama loses, the new Republican president will be able to nominate a new Securities and Exchange Commission chairman and the SEC will change from a Democratic majority to a 3-2 Republican majority.
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Features
There will be no escape
Iain Morse finds that custodians will face greater levels of liability for the assets they safeguard for clients under AIFMD rules
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Features
Big ain’t so beautiful
Since 2007, the number of Dutch pension funds has declined by about a third as more and more, predominantly small, corporate pension funds have disappeared and the total is predicted to drop to 100 by 2014.
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Country Report
Belgium: Change on the way
Challenges in the form of regulation and lower expected returns mean Belgian pension funds must seek economies of scale and improved governance, writes Karel Stroobants
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Country Report
Belgium: Working longer
An Van Damme analyses Belgium’s attempt to raise the age of retirement through incentives rather than legislative decree
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Big is beautiful – up to a point
Mariska van der Westen and Miranda Schoutsen report on the growing trend of Dutch pension fund consolidation. What is the optimum size for a pension scheme?
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Country Report
The Netherlands: The bigger, the better?
Pension fund consolidation is generally welcomed in the belief that big equals beautiful. Our sister publication, IPNederland conducted an in-depth analysis based on comprehensive data on Dutch pension funds
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Reforms on track
With as much as 40% of the Dutch population likely to face retirement benefit cuts of 1-3% from next year, the issue of pension provision has become a top priority in the portfolio of Minister Henk Kamp. He presides over the department of social affairs and labour, “but from the ...
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Pensions turmoil
Changes to Dutch pensions could mean greater interest in DC structures, such as premium pension institutions (PPIs), argue Gerard Roelofs and Michel Iglesias del Sol
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Sustainable after the crisis?
Pierre Akkermans outlines recent pension developments in the Dutch pension system
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Country Report
The Netherlands: ‘Modular’ management gains ground
In the Netherlands, the classic model of fiduciary management has been losing ground since the crisis of 2008. Trustee boards are taking back control. André de Vos reports
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: Playing the long game
With so many pressures to focus on the short term, consultants are having to craft more sophisticated investment advice – and in some cases, re-think business models – to help clients attain their long-term objectives. Gill Wadsworth reports
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: The professionals
Gill Wadsworth looks at the success of independent trustees in the UK and plans to promote them in the Netherlands, and examines their working relationship with pension consultants
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Special Report
Europe's Pension Consultants: Firmly in the advisory camp
Chris Ford tells Liam Kennedy why Towers Watson isn’t about to pitch itself as a fiduciary manager
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: Staying in style
Surprisingly, Martin Steward finds that it was just about possible for pan-European contrarian value to hang in there during 2011’s quality-growth world
