Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 364
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Features
Measuring pension fund costs
Gail Moss gives practical advice to trustee boards looking to manage investment fees and other costs
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Features
Dark clouds from Europe
Hans Walter Scheurer discusses the recent European discussions on an appropriate European solvency regime for capital-backed occupational retirement provision
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Central direction, local implementation
Liam Kennedy spoke with Benedikt Köster and Sven Rogge about Deutsche Post DHL’s pension risk management framework and its implementation
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Special Report
Fiduciary Management: Who’s watching the watchers?
Specialist overseers have a crucial role to play for pension funds using fiduciary managers. But the trustees themselves must watch the watcher, writes Brendan Maton
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Special Report
Fiduciary Management: What’s wrong and what’s right
It seemed so full of promise, says Peter Kraneveld. But was fiduciary management just a fad? Did it ever get off the ground?
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Special Report
Fiduciary Management: Opportunity knocks
Asset managers should recognise fiduciary managers as less of a threat and more of an opportunity, says Nigel Birch
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Special Report
Fiduciary Management: Slow burn
A few early adopters have embraced fiduciary management in the UK. Gill Wadsworth asks whether they were wise to do so
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Features
Ukraine’s stock exchanges pepare for rationalisation
Iain Morse explains why the former member of the Soviet bloc has such a complicated system and why it is difficult to change
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Special Report
Pharmas in better health
Although improving, the pharma sector still has social and environmental challenges to address. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Interviews
Happy in its own little world
With new funds springing up or existing ones growing, the winds seem to be blowing favourably again for cleantech investments.
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Interviews
Focus and flexibility
Few can claim to have been investing in emerging markets for 130 years. But Martin Currie & Co was helping to finance the North American railroads in the 1880s, when the US occupied the spot that China occupies today. That pioneering spirit lived on; it made its first Japanese investments in the 1960s, opened an office and a fund in China in 1997, and rolled out its first hedge fund – long/short Japan – in 2000. A new strategy partnership with Singapore’s APS Asset Management looks set to be a leading independent A-share active equity business.
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Features
No Greek tragedy
Well, things didn’t get much better in the markets after our long family drive back from the Italian Riviera to The Hague in August – volatility continued on the markets and it became clear that when it comes to the euro, plan ‘A’ isn’t up to much and plan ‘B’ doesn’t exist.
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Features
Fear, extremes and the euro
August was not all bad: 79.5% of respondents to the Off The Record survey stated that core government bonds had performed well; gold/precious metals (24% of respondents), currency exposures (20.5%) and global macro funds or other hedge funds (17%) also turned up trumps. But of course, that tells its own story: August was all about fear, extremes – and the euro.
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Opinion Pieces
Consensus elusive
The US retirement system might change dramatically by year’s end; or pension reform could be postponed again until after the 2012 presidential election. Either way, the debate about how to prevent the bankruptcy of social security is hotter than ever.
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Opinion Pieces
Thoughtful ownership
Investment managers too often have very little understanding of the businesses in which they are investing, delegates were told at a meeting in Brussels during the launch of a new study on stewardship.
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Features
Liam Kennedy: Break some policy eggs
After years of poorly conceived occupational pensions policy, the UK is finally attempting to remedy the situation – at least in the defined contribution area.
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Features
Martin Steward: Mayhem on Wall Street – and Main Street
As the kids ran riot across England on 8 August, traders nursed a one-month stock market loss of 15%. I don’t suppose the rioters were thrown into panic by their Bloomberg screens, but this was a striking coincidence for long-term investors to ponder.
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Features
Jim Robinson: I’m waiting for the alien invasion
Two snippets of news recently caught my eye for peculiar reasons. I say ‘peculiar’ because this summer has brought many eyebrow-raising news stories, including the collapse of the Greek economy, the sovereign debt crisis, the News of the World hacking scandal, the US credit downgrade, the panic in equity markets ...
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Features
Volatility hits some more than others
Most European pension funds put on a brave face during the wild stock market swings at the end of last month, but some handled the pressure better than others. The larger Dutch funds initially adopted a rather phlegmatic attitude as the panic first set in, emphasising the long-term nature of ...
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Features
Irish pension schemes face closure pressure
The stock market volatility witnessed in August has had differing effects on pension funds, depending on the country and its approach to pension investment. In the UK, it has resulted in higher deficits, increasing the possibility of an insurance buy-in and in the Netherlands, it has caused coverage ratios to ...
