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  • Features

    Long-term investor, short-term horizon

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Nina Röhrbein spoke with Truls Tollefsen, chief financial officer at Vital Forsikring, about the Norwegian insurer’s approach to managing its client’s long-term interests in the face of a strict annual guaranteed return objective

  • Features

    On the starting blocks

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Kalpana Fitzpatrick assesses industry reforms to the UK’s fledgling National Employment Savings Trust

  • Features

    US success story

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    The Thrift Savings Plan serves as something of a prototype for NEST. It has widened pension participation and demonstrated good returns, reports Maria Teresa Cometto

  • Features

    Pensions cross borders

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Gail Moss assesses the issue of pension provision for international workforces

  • Focus on payment
    Features

    Focus on payment

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Kerrin Rosenberg and Theo Kocken draw startling conclusions about the future shape of pension fund liabilities

  • Diversity revealed
    Special Report

    Diversity revealed

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    The financial crisis and recession across Europe has uncovered fundamental differences between CEE economies and markets. Krystyna Krzyzak untangles what we have learned

  • Special Report

    Convergence to emergence

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    There is much diversity in emerging Europe’s debt markets, finds Matthew Craig

  • Special Report

    PE hits CEE heights

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Europe’s biggest LBO of 2009 was a CEE deal, reports Joseph Mariathasan. But it is difficult to see the region becoming a core emerging market private equity market like Asia

  • Special Report

    Russia: The Wild East

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    By any measure, Russia is among the cheapest of the major emerging markets. Martin Delaney asks, is this an opportunity, or a sensible ‘wild east’ discount?

  • Russia: Untapped energy
    Special Report

    Russia: Untapped energy

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Martin Delaney discovers that it is the growing middle class and its appetite to consume that drives Russian markets – not just oil and gas

  • Features

    Russian bank roulette

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Shares in the bigger Russian banks are spiking on the belief of further consolidation and privatisation in the sector, writes Richard Hemming

  • Special Report

    Fees: Just rewards

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Unfairness, high levels, perverse incentives: fees are always guaranteed to raise temperatures. Martin Steward considers some imaginative proposals for alignment of interests

  • Special Report

    Fees: Beta-zero fees

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Bernd Scherer tells Martin Steward that asset managers should take a good look at – and possibly hedge – the market risk embedded in their fees. How might that change the relationship with clients?

  • Special Report

    Fees: The big issue

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Size definitely affects active management risks and returns, writes Matthew Craig. But the relationship is by no means a simple one

  • Interviews

    Latin translation

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    “We have a saying in Spain,” says BBVA’s head of global asset management Luisa Gómez Bravo. “‘No vendas la piel del oso antes de haberlo cazado’.” Don’t sell the bearskin until you’ve hunted the bear. The proverb comes in response to the question of how the €140bn asset management unit of one of the biggest global banking brands remains so little-known among Europe’s institutional investors.

  • Emerging Market Equities: Emerging questions
    Asset Class Reports

    Emerging Market Equities: Emerging questions

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    The days of a simple emerging market allocation are over. Correspondingly, JosephMariathasan finds a variety of approaches among the top performing managers

  • Special Report

    Positive impact in Africa

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    A local presence and a tilt towards impact investing is the way to succeed on the final frontier, writes Nina Röhrbein

  • Features

    Diary of an Investor: Player and dealer

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    I caught up with an old pal at the IPE Awards in Monaco in early December. As a previous IPE winner, we at Wasserdicht Pension Funds were invited to a special reception to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the awards. But beforehand, Pim and I met for an aperitif.

  • Features

    The year ahead

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    This month’s Off the Record survey asked European pension funds for their outlook for 2011, and received varying views and concerns.

  • Features

    A stitch in time

    January 2011 (Magazine)

    Predicting life expectancy is never easy. In addition to the more obvious factors that need to be considered, Swiss Re’s Daniel Ryan points out some less obvious but potentially beneficial ones