Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 408
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Country Report
Belgium: Prime location status proves an elusive goal
Astrid Pieron argues that a combination of strong competition and tax and legal discrimination is hampering Belgium as a destination for cross-border pension funds
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Country Report
Belgium: Keeping it safe and simple
Belgium’s pension funds are erring on the side of caution as they begin the process of re-examining their asset allocation strategies following the downturn. Nina Roehrbein reports
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Features
Benchmark and save
Gail Moss finds out how pension funds can use benchmarking to reduce their operating costs
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Features
Berkshire: Straight talker
The UK’s Royal County of Berkshire pension fund has slashed long-only equities and hedged its longevity risk. The manager of the fund, Nick Greenwood, told Brendan Maton about his strategy
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Opinion PiecesAnton van Nunen, Van Nunen & Partners
The first fiduciary contracts were drafted some 7-8 years ago, and now more than three quarters of externally managed Dutch pension money is under fiduciary management. It is time to evaluate the rapid development and, in particular, to correct aberrations that have occurred since.
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Features
Presentation revisited
The most controverisal aspect of the IASB’s shake-up of financial statement presentation is the move to a so-called single statement of comprehensive income.
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Opinion PiecesAutomatic for the people
US money managers could receive an estimated $100bn (€73bn) over five years to invest on behalf of the 78m workers who do not have a pension – 50% of US employees – if a proposal by the White House is approved by the Congress.
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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
