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Opinion Pieces
Capital is not a panacea
Brussels, the Basel Committee, and other regulators striving to increase the minimum reserves of the banks have apparently got it wrong. Regulators wanting to reduce the risk of a further financial and economic crisis should concentrate their efforts somewhere else, according to the European Banking Federation (EBF).
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Country ReportIreland: A long game in pensions
Christine Senior assesses the roller-coaster of Irish pensions legislation and regulation
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Country Report
Ireland: New model vital
Irish pension schemes must find new strategies to cope with effects of ageing population, says Conor Daly
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Country Report
Ireland: At a crossroads
Jerry Moriarty, director of policy at the Irish Association of Pension Funds, assesses the country’s pension challenges
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Country Report
Ireland: Short private pensions reprieve
Stephen Lalor and Amanda James on radical changes to public and private sector pensions
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Country Report
Ireland: More rivers to cross
Philip Shier of Hewitt Associates looks ahead to another difficult year for Irish pension funds
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Country Report
Ireland: Strategic and tactical
Nyree Stewart assesses the National Pension Reserve Fund’s strategic deployment to recapitalise two domestic banks, and its move towards more dynamic decision making
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Country Report
Ireland: On the road to diversity
The pummelling suffered by Irish pension funds in the recent financial crisis is encouraging them to review their investment risk strategies, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Ireland: Subtle changes needed
The managed fund sector recovered some of its disastrous 2008 losses over the course of last year. Nina Röhrbein assesses the state of play
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Special ReportRisk Management: Multi-stakeholder
Bart Oldenkamp and Herman Bril argue that strategic risk management is the most important policy tool for defined benefit pension funds
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Special ReportRisk Management: Extreme risks
Tim Hodgson takes a qualitative approach to ranking extreme risks and assessing their interconnectedness
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Special Report
Risk Management: Crash testing: don’t be a dummy
Instead of chasing after an infinite number of possible events, a risk manager must consider a limited number of impacts when stress or crash testing, argue Arcady Novosyolov and Daniel Satchkov. The challenge is to pay more attention to more plausible impacts without making specific timing predictions
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Features
Information revolution
This month’s Off The Record survey asked pension funds in what ways they communicate with their members or participants. Over a third (38%) of respondents felt that postal correspondence was still the most important form of communication. Some 26.5% found their website to be the most important method, while only ...
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Features
Pensions claw back returns in 2009
European pension funds performed significantly better in 2009 as continued market rallies in the second half of the year allowed schemes to post double-digit returns. Schemes in the Netherlands reported improvements as pension fund cover ratios pulled back to an average 111% by the end of 2009, according to statistics ...
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Opinion Pieces
EFRP sets out its stall
The European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) has called for a more logical, thought-out and co-ordinated approach to pensions policy in the European Union in its strategy paper, “Beyond the crisis: Workplace Pensions”.
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Opinion Pieces
Funds lead reform calls
As Wall Street prepares to pay some of the fattest bonuses ever to its bankers and Congress remains some way from approving any substantial reform of the financial system, institutional investors such as pension funds are stepping forward to push for change – both at the political level as well ...
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Interviews
YouTube not yet the communication star
On The Record How do you communicate with members?
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Special ReportAsian debt takes centre stage
Asian debt provides diversification and good risk-adjusted returns, argue emerging markets managers. Maha Khan Phillips takes a look at how institutional investors can access the asset class and where the best opportunities lie
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Mental resolve
The beach at Scheveningen is broad and blustery at this time of year. The tempestuous, grey North Sea contrasts with the pale, wan light and the broad horizon, and I always find that a brisk walk with our Labrador-cross Dubbeltje brings about the right sort of mood to deliberate on the problems that are taking me the most time to resolve.
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Special Report
Going green in emerging markets
Green is gaining in currency with investors. ATP has just announced a €1bn investment to a fund focused on emerging markets and climate change, while the World Bank’s green bond issues have been snapped up. Nina Röhrbein reports
