Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 414
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Country ReportA time of radical changes
Jan Willers outlines some of the key findings of the fourth Nordic Investor Survey of Copenhagen-based Kirstein Finans, including muted interest in international diversification due to solvency concerns
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Country Report
Home advantage
Last year’s equity sell-off interrupted Nordic investors’ progress towards more international exposure, but there are good reasons to like this home bias anyway, writes Martin Steward
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Country Report
Wag the dog
Liam Kennedy spoke with the chief executive of the UK’s NAPF, Joanne Segars, about pensions, lobbying and the association’s ideas for optional indexation H
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Features
Essential governance
Gail Moss presents IPE’s guide to pension fund governance and how to do it better
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Features
Sorry, we forgot
At IASB’s July staff meeting on pensions, two concerns sprang to mind. One was the risk of too many cooks spoiling the broth. The other was that in addition to the other woes that have plagued her project, senior project manager Anne McGeachin has had human resource management added to the list.
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Opinion Pieces
Pensions re-think
As the drive to reform private pensions in the US gathers pace, features of the UK’s forthcoming personal accounts system – which includes mandatory automatic enrolment, prohibition of fund withdrawal and the mandatory annuitisation of benefits – could be adopted in the US. One of the US lawmakers pushing in this direction is George Miller, Democrat Representative for California, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.
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Features
Risk and human bias
Risk managers are being advised to take more notice of the human element when investing in the financial markets and economic theory cannot truly work unless it incorporates human emotional traits, according to research conducted by Investor Analytics and BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services’.
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Features
Tide turns on PE balance of power
Calpers, the giant US public pension fund, announced in September that it would endorse principles set out by the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) to promote stronger alignment of interests between private equity limited and general partners. Experts in the private equity market are touting those principles as a foundation ...
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Opinion Pieces
“Is your pension fund a Sweden or a Colombia?”
Longevity is widely recognised as a key risk. Hewitt’s recent global risk survey, carried out in the fourth quarter of 2008, recognised that improvements in longevity appear high on the list of risk factors concerning companies – more so in the UK than equity market risk. But how many schemes ...
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Features
The yin and yang of asset allocation
In the third article in a series on a new study, Amin Rajan and Jim McCaughan show that clients are testing contrasting approaches
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Features
Swaps are now an option
Gail Moss assesses approaches to longevity. Aside from raising the retirement age, pension funds now have a longevity swap market to add to their toolkit
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Country Report
Dilemma of market gains
Emma Cusworth assesses the funding levels of Swiss pension funds
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Country Report
Positive voting opportunity
The Swiss vote on pensions in 2010 presents an excellent chance to make the case for a good second pillar, argues André Tapernoux
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Country Report
Consequences of inflation
Deflation and inflation have differential effects on the redistribution of risks between active members and pensioners, find Lukas Riesen and Alfred Bühler
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IP Asia
A much-changed landscape for QDII
The initial success of the QDII program exceeded the most optimistic expectations, with several funds raising more than 200% of their available quotas forcing regulators to increase allocations in an effort to satisfy domestic investor demand. Eighteen months later we find ourselves in a very different economic environment. Fund ...
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IP Asia
A challenging time for real estate investors.
A major component of institutional portfolios, real estate has gone from being the boom asset class of recent years to being the cause of much of the distress investors now find themselves in. What does the future hold for real estate investors in Asia?
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IP Asia
Adapting to inefficient markets
A new approach to equity investing is drawing attention from some of the more sophisticated Japanese pension funds
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IP Asia
Whatever happens, this is a new era for Japan
From inside and outside Japan, everyone is wondering whether the Hatoyama revolution will truly herald a new era for Japan, or if this will be just the latest in a string of false dawns.
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IP Asia
ASFA backs after-tax benchmark series
The move of ASFA into the index business with FTSE represents a significant strategic step for the not-for-profit industry association.
