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IP Asia
Pickerell looks to extend Nikko’s multi-local approach
IPA’s Richard Newell talks to Blair Pickerell, Head of Asia for Nikko Asset Management, about continued expansion in the region and the ethos that drives the Japanese group internationally.
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IP Asia
Care Super hits the investment ‘sweet spot’
We often hear that it’s the larger funds that have all the advantages. Betty Kotevski talks to the CEO of an award-winning superannuation fund, about the advantages of only being medium-sized.
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IP Asia
Build the ETF market in China and they will come
Stock exchanges and ETF issuers in China have been encouraged to move ahead with changes that will enhance the ETF market on the mainland. Richard Newell reports from Shanghai.
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IP Asia
NPC outlines Social Security Fund expansion
The fund has an upper limit for overseas assets of 20%, although currently this has remained stable at 7% since last July. The fund has a long-stated aim of fulfilling this quota, but Dai refused to put a time-scale on this expansion.
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IP Asia
2011 growth will be a pointer for the next decade
According to Ivan Shi of consultancy Z-Ben Advisors, developments in China’s fund management industry in 2011 will be more indicative of the next decade than any other period in recent memory.
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IP Asia
Pension tides start to ebb
A modest downturn in equity markets for funds with a shrinking asset base leads to a trap with no other final result but cash-out.
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Features
Call off the funeral
Since the dotcom bust investors have endured a long period of headlines announcing the ‘Death of Venture Capital’. So why are practitioners telling Martin Steward to expect a new lease of life?
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Special Report
Hedge fund paradox
Nina Röhrbein looks at how the few responsible hedge funds are reconciling their short-term outlook with the medium to long-term nature of ESG investing
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FeaturesForest funds snapshot
Céline Claudon presents the key findings from IWC’s comprehensive database of institutional timberland investment funds
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Interviews
Breaking the bonds
Last month’s Strategically Speaking 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.
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Features
Belgium’s conservative custodians
Iain Morse finds regulation change may force some smaller captive custodians to re-think their business model
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Sugary words
We have time on our hands at Wasserdicht Pension Funds. Fiduciary managers have given up calling us; they have finally understood we do not want to be a part of this inexplicable momentum, the movement that outsources everything to the hands of supposed expert practitioners. Even in this we recognise that momentum and value are negatively correlated!
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Features
TV strikes again
Zembla, a current affairs TV programme in the Netherlands, lit a firestorm in the pensions industry last month after it argued that Dutch pension funds have underperformed consistently over the past two decades, missing out on more than €145bn in unrealised returns. The programme claimed that funds had generally invested too much in risky assets and that trustees lacked the necessary expertise to look after Dutch workers’ pension savings. It even went so far as to accuse the industry of “bad management”.
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Features
Rate rise offsets returns
Rising bond yields were the bane of some Dutch pension schemes as the industrypublished its fourth-quarter and year-end results for 2010.
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Features
Plan the work, work the plan
Another month, another discussion about other comprehensive income. But more than that, the extraordinary meeting of the International Accounting Standards Board on 2 February served to underline a maxim that the London-based standard setter has consistently ignored: plan the work and work the plan.
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Features
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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Opinion Pieces
Peter Montagnon, Senior investment adviser, Financial Reporting Council
“The Stewardship Code does not require all its adherents to behave like activists”Peter Montagnon Senior investment adviser, Financial Reporting Council
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Interviews
Hedging liabilities with benchmarks
What are your fixed income benchmarks? Stefan Ros CIO SPK Sweden Invested assets: SEK19.5bn (€2.2n) Participants: 150 sponsors and 38,000 beneficiaries 99% DB, 1% DC Funding level: 166% (Dec 2010) Date established: 1944 Approximately 70% of our overall asset allocation is ...
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Features
In the media glare
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Jeroen van der Put, executive director of the PNO Media Pension Fund, about the importance of sustainable management in its asset allocation and risk management
