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InterviewsIn your style
If ‘manager of managers’ was once the way SEI chose to explain its European business, it has now embraced fiduciary management. Or as Patrick Disney, managing director of SEI’s EMEA institutional business, likes to put it: “When we started here, head office told us to sell what they called a ‘bundled outsourced retirement platform’, which I always thought was a bit of a mouthful. But essentially it was what we now call fiduciary management.”
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Special Report
ESG progress in emerging markets
China had more than its fair share of bad press off the back of December’s UN Climate Change Conference. But Andrew Ness points to cutting-edge sustainable technologies in Asia, as well as real progress on social and governance fronts
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Special Report
A venture for Asia exposure
A joint venture between Marshall Wace and GaveKal brings together top-flight long/short capabilities with seasoned Asia research. Martin Steward finds that 2008 gave it a baptism of fire
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Special Report
Time to build the new world
The growth of Asia is undoubtedly one of the great investment stories of the coming generation, and infrastructure is one of the key areas of exposure for European investors. But Martin Steward finds that the opportunity might be surprisingly short-lived
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Special Report
Corporatising Asia
It’s no news that Asia offers long-term growth. But the value locked up in its disparate corporate structures means private equity could represent the keenest form of Asian risk, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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Asset Class Reports
Not just all-in on BRICs
Joseph Mariathasan and Martin Steward research some of the top performers in emerging market equities and finds considerable diversification, not only between top-down and bottom-up approaches, but between valuation methodologies
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FeaturesEnter the global dimension
There is no rule that says emerging market securities are the only – or even the best – source of emerging market exposure. Martin Steward looks at access points closer to home
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FeaturesMilitary timing softens crisis blow
Reeta Paakkinen spoke to Caner Öner, senior adviser at Oyak, the €5.6bn Turkish military pension fund
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Features
Follow your members
Social media is boosting communication between pension funds and members, and among members themselves, says Gail Moss
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Features
PP Pension: Steady as she goes
The €796m PP Pension fund is known for consistently producing excellent returns. But after a recent dip in performance, the newly appointed CEO Viveka Ekberg (pictured) and CIO Cecelia Thomasson Blomquist aim to re-establish the fund’s good returns without compromising on its winning philosophy, writes Pirkko Juntunen
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Opinion PiecesElizabeth Corley, CEO, Allianz Global Investors Europe
You can’t fall in love with the European single market. At least that is the considered opinion of the father of the project, Jacques Delors. However, you can celebrate its outcomes. European integration has fostered an environment that has allowed the various financial market sectors to consolidate. Today, sectors such as banking, insurance and asset management have broadened their business and extended operations across Europe, while European pension funds have largely stayed on the sidelines.
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Features
Presentation matters
The IASB’s joint work on financial statement presentation alongside its US counterpart the FASB, has largely been the stalking horse of the IASB’s efforts to revise IAS19. The FSP project has as its objective the development of an accounting standard that will mandate how entities organise the financial information in their financial statements.
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Features
DC risk sharing and how to go about it
The investment losses suffered in the last two years of downturn have inspired new thinking – not least on how to improve the risk-return profile of defined contribution (DC) pension investing and how to secure cheap DC guarantees. Many of these ideas were discussed at a conference on DC risk-sharing in January hosted at The University of Exeter Business School. And they could be useful to the pension regimes of most countries, according to participants.
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Features
Corporate compliance
Corporate governance processes of institutional investors have come under the spotlight with the publication of two UK reviews. The Walker Review and the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) review of the UK Combined Code encourage greater shareholder engagement through a proposed Stewardship Code. But what impact will they have on pension ...
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Opinion Pieces
A year of execution
The year ahead in Brussels will be one of implementing measures to tighten financial legislation. But will the financial services regulatory programme align with the plans of the G20, or be diluted under pressure from one lobby after another? Whatever the outcome, no-one should expect a bump-free ride.
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Opinion Pieces
Hugo Lasat, CEO, Amonis Pension Fund
“The funds industry is a good shelter for the anxious client. But this is only true on the condition that fund managers can perform their role as risk managers”
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Features
Full speed ahead
A €2.6bn pension fund will look after CERN’s scientists long after they have finished their minute inspection of the universe using the Large Hadron Collider. Nina Röhrbein visited Christian Cuénoud, the fund’s retiring administrator
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Country Report
Hungary: A case of bad timing
Thomas Escritt reviews the decision to introduce multiple risk portfolios for supplementary pension funds
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Country Report
Russia: Deploys the big guns
Russia’s two new sovereign wealth funds were instrumental in supporting the economy during the economic crisis. Martin Delaney reports
