Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 409
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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
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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.
