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The Netherlands: The yin and yang of investing
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) advocates strict separation of risk management and fiduciary management. But Lodewijk van Pol, head of fiduciary management at Lombard Odier, argues that risk management and fiduciary management are joined together at the hip and that is just the way it should be
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The Netherlands: Each to its own
Last year, social affairs and labour ministry director general Maarten Camps hinted that the new FTK would take on a dual character. He talks to Miranda Schoutsen about the form the framework will take
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The Netherlands: DNB to tighten supervision
Mariska van der Westen outlines the agenda of the Dutch pension fund supervisors
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Europe's Pension Consultants: New wine in old bottles?
Brendan Maton asks whether fiduciary management is really a new advisory structure, or just a new charging structure
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Europe's Pension Consultants: For better or worse
Consultant monogamy is still widespread in Germany, but faithfulness does not mean fiduciary management, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Talking heads
We put questions to nine leading European pension consultants
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Belgium: KBC Pensioenfonds prepares for accounting rule changes
The pension fund of Belgian bank and insurance group KBC has returned to pre-crisis levels following 2010 returns of 9.42% for the DB and 6.52% for the DC scheme, leaving the scheme with a short-term, liquidation scenario funding level of 147% and a long-term funding level of 113%, up 8% ...
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Belgium: Pension B looks to real estate and tactical asset allocation
Before the Vandenbroucke law came into force in 2004, the Belgian construction sector distributed some of its reserves to its retiring ex-workers. However, this practice did not conform to the new OFP (organisation for financing pensions) system, leading to the creation of the new sector pension fund, Pensio B, in ...
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Belgium: Pensioenfonds UZ Gent: Diverse benchmarks
The UZ Gent pension fund, founded in 1995, is unique in Belgium in that it does not provide a second pillar supplementary pension, but replaces the legal first pillar pension for civil servants employed at the University Hospital Ghent. Employees with a normal labour agreement cannot join the scheme.
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Belgium: GDF Suez/Belgian gas and electricity pension funds re-assess euro government bond exposure
These five pension funds – comprising a total of 20,000 members – cover GDF Suez Belgium, the Belgian entity of GDF Suez, a global independent power generating company, and other companies from the Belgian gas and electricity sector.
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Panic football or a long game?
Dutch opinion is divided over the regulatory reaction to the recent financial shocks, find Liam Kennedy and Mariska van der Westen. Whatever the outcome of the planned overhaul to the FTK, good communication will be essential
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The Netherlands: The right risks
Mariska van der Westen discussed longevity and other risks with Peter Borgdorff, director of the Dutch healthcare fund PFZW
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IP Asia
Asia's fixed income tide turning: Franklin Templeton
Asia and other emerging markets’ capital, currency and interest rate controls are shrinking opportunities in what are tiny fixed income markets in the first place.
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IP Asia
In search of consistency
BlackRock’s emerging markets strategy is a mix of systematic trading insights and seasoned investment judgement.
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IP Asia
Hey you, get onto my cloud
Martin Steward talks to SRL Global about bringing cloud-computing hedge fund portfolio infrastructure to the pensions community
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IP Asia
New era for multi-asset managers
Martin Steward recently looked at how the dynamics of ageing, pension fund decumulation and tighter capital adequacy had influenced Schroders’ transformation from UK equities investor to global multi-asset manager. In this article he takes another example – PIMCO.
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IP Asia
Religare plans expansion and acquisitions in Asia
Desai says Religare will sell different types of fund, such as private equity or hedge funds through Northgate or Landmark – as well a range of mutual funds. In India, the firm recently launched a domestic equities mutual fund focused on small and mid-cap companies that raised $105 million in three weeks.
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Unsustainable – facing up to the pressures of growth
Following the latest party congress and the announcement of a new five year plan, China consultant Andrew Leung assesses how China can avoid the problems caused by imbalances in the domestic economy.
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Cross-border flows set for massive increase
Following the gradual loosening of foreign exchange controls last year, China has begun 2011 with a further series of reforms which are likely to boost the country’s already burgeoning renminbi markets. Iain Mills reports from Beijing
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Engagement – who has the real power ?
It may not be too cynical to suspect that the ability of investors and NGOs to influence those companies which are end–users of rare earths to put pressure on their suppliers – when it is those suppliers that have the bargaining power due to the scarcity of the materials – may be limited.
