Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 393
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Features
Spanish custody is set for change
Iain Morse reports on the expected effects of Target2 Securities
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Features
Barbarians at the gate
Gold may be a good hedge against an investment portfolio’s fiat currency exposures. But, Martin Steward asks, does it matter that some investors may be holding it for very different reasons?
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Special ReportGermany: Kandlbinder 2010
Till Entzian charts the consolidation trend in his annual review of the German Spezialfonds marketplace, during and after 2009’s year of asset recovery
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Features
Pitfalls of fiduciary management
Christiaan Tromp outlines the necessary criteria for successful and long-lived fiduciary management partnerships
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Country ReportSpain: Where to diversify?
Gail Moss charts the asset allocations of Spanish pension entities and notes the increase in interest in risk management
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FeaturesAlign your interests
Gail Moss assesses how pension fund boards and trustees can make sure their interests are in line with those of their asset managers
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Features
Reality check
The read across from US GAAP to IFRS is far from easy, despite the efforts of consultants such as Towers Watson and auditors KPMG to break it down. For example, the pensions comparison in the August 2009 edition of KPMG’s ‘IFRS Compared to US GAAP’, runs to 17 pages.
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FeaturesNetherlands: Towards constitutional rights
Two major reports on pensions set a challenge for the incoming Dutch government, writes Liam Kennedy
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Opinion Pieces
Social reform tensions
The campaign for the November mid-term Congressional elections is heating up, and one topic raising temperatures is social security reform. Depending on the outcome of the elections in the House and the Senate, the recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (NCFRR), due by 1 December, will be received in a different political environment.
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Opinion Pieces
IAS19 volatility danger
Perhaps unsurprisingly, pension fund representative bodies have registered their objection to the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) fair value proposals for defined benefit (DB) pension accounting. There is also backing from two major US organisations and a European one, plus general support by a second European body.
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Features
GPS: Blow to funds’ optimism
European pension funds say they have become more concerned about their own organisation’s ability to meet its financial objectives during the third quarter of 2010, with pessimistic views outnumbering optimistic views.
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Country Report
The Netherlands: A plan for pensions
At the invitation of IPE’s Dutch sister publication IPN in June, writes Mariska van der Westen, over 80 pension funds and consultants joined experts to discuss the challenges facing the Dutch pension sector.
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FeaturesPooling – how it works
Gail Moss outlines the essential elements of multinational pension and asset pooling, and how smaller pension funds can get in on the act
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Not an easy game
Anton van Nunen examines why pension fund-owned fiduciary managers have been less successful than other competitors
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Country Report
The Netherlands: A new Dutch IORP
Wilfried Mulder and Hans van Meerten outline the Netherlands’ planned new fund vehicle, the PPI
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Who will take up the challenge?
It is widely hoped that the introduction of the multi-OPF will offer smaller corporate funds a means to survive in a complex investment environment. Mariska van der Westen asks who will partake?
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Still a popular choice
Fiduciary management is still gaining ground in the Netherlands, and pension funds believe themselves to be in control despite delegating to a one-stop shop service provider, according to the third annual fiduciary management survey of 26 Dutch pension funds of our Dutch sister publication IPN. The funds vary in size ...
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Country ReportUK: A pension coalition
The UK’s new coalition government was as quick to tackle the tricky issue of pensions policy as it was surprisingly quick in its formation. Gill Wadsworth outlines the issues under consideration
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Country Report
UK: Building the NEST
Announced in the Pension Act of 2007, the National Employee Savings Trust is a work in progress. Nina Röhrbein reports
