Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 390
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Sweden Home bias wanes
Pirkko Juntunen finds that competition reasons may sway domestic allocations among life and pension companies
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Norway A concentrated equity market
Norway’s stock exchange, Oslo Børs, comprises of 203 issuers, of which 36 are foreign companies. The market-cap totals almost NOK1.5trn (€186bn) and the exchange saw six new listings in 2010.
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Folketrygdfondet The quiet sibling
Pirkko Juntunen reports on Folketrygdfondet, which manages the Government Pension Fund Norway and the Government Bond Fund within tight regional constraints
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Finland Gradual decline
Reeta Paakkinen outlines the local investment trend in Finnish pension investors’ portfolios
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Special Report
The Nordic Region: Early movers and growing assets
Susanne Jacobson and Linda Stany assess the role smaller investors are playing in the responsible investment area
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: External blacklists dominate ESG
Scandinavian investors have for a long time had a sustainably orientated ethical approach. But Nina Rohrbein finds that this is not playing to the positive
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Hedge fund appetite
Charlotte Bonde Tamm presents insights into hedge fund investments among Nordic investors
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Funds seek to restore equity
Jan Willers outlines some of the key findings of a recent survey on Nordic institutional asset allocation and trends within equities
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Country Report
The Nordic Region: Denmark’s planned venture capital fund
When key parties from the Danish pensions industry emerged from their meeting with the economics and business affairs minister Brian Mikkelsen back in August 2010, they declared themselves optimistic that somehow they would work together to put together DKK5bn (€670m) of funding to help small and medium-sized enterprises in their ...
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Country ReportThe Nordic Region: Denmark Home front target
Rachel Fixsen investigates the pressures that Danish pension funds are facing to align their investments in support of the domestic economy
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Features
Bridging the Atlantic
Gail Moss reports on a transatlantic collaboration project between four pension associations to form a joint response on accounting standards proposals
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Features
Twin-track approach
Nina Röhrbein asked Henrik Olejasz Larsen (pictured), CIO of Denmark’s Sampension, about the challenge of offering policies based on contrasting investment strategies
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Features
Case study of a US asset manager
“Asset management is a craft industry and may always remain so. Its food chain is changing but predictions about consolidation are too simplistic. In manufacturing, consolidation is occurring in ownership, not activities: as size has proved an enemy of alpha, the craft end is being fragmented to create independent and ...
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FeaturesThe yin and yang of multi-boutiques
In the fourth article in a new series, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan argue that boutique is a state of mind. Only savvy leaders can create it
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Opinion Pieces
Toby Nangle, Director, Baring Asset Management
“Developing countries are positioned to enjoy a demographic dividend from now until 2030-35”
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Features
Risk-analysis wonderland
In its recently published exposure draft on pensions accounting, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) proposed that entities should present a sensitivity analysis to show how changes in key actuarial assumptions might reasonably be expected to affect:
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Features
Fiduciary expands in UK
Towers Watson received important backing in October for its implemented consulting offering following its appointment to an expanded ‘delegated CIO’ brief by the £3bn (€3.5bn) UK Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund (MNOPF). Terminology aside, this is a fiduciary management agreement and as such is the largest in the UK to ...
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Features
NAPF delegates meet the new government
The National Association of Pension Funds’ annual conference in Liverpool came at a time of uncertainty for British pensions: there was the announcement of a new Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy; the release of Lord John Hutton’s report into public pensions; and Steve Webb’s assurance to the industry that auto-enrolment ...
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Features
German education funds a no-brainer
Germany has jumped on the bandwagon of education funds, with pension funds sensing an opportunity for uncorrelated returns above bond yields with an altruistic benefit. On average, a German student wanting to graduate from a private university needs €25-30,000, of which only a small proportion is covered by grants.
