Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 417
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FeaturesSweden: Green giant
Aside from concerns about the performance and costs of the AP buffer funds, the government has also outlined an ESG agenda for institutional investors, writes Robert Melia Watson
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FeaturesSwitzerland: Shifting attitudes
The regulators are under pressure to allow cuts in benefit levels as funding problems increase, reports Emma Cusworth
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FeaturesUK: A chink of light
A small compromise in the treatment of accrued rights might signal a more flexible approach to benefit indexation in the future, finds Liam Kennedy
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IP Asia
Darwinism meets Asset Servicing
Richard Newell looks at the dynamic shifts that have taken place in the Sibos world since last year’s event, which coincided with the collapse of Lehman Brothers
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint
Target date: “There is ample room for added value between one size-fits-all solutions and do-it-yourself approaches to long-term investment decisions”
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Features
Doing mortality to death
To invest time following the progress of International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) pensions project is generally to waste part of an otherwise productive existence.
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Interviews
From silos to solutions
BlackRock has been active in fiduciary management since 2005, when it purchased the internal asset management operation of the Philips pension fund in the Netherlands and was awarded a fiduciary mandate to manage the assets.
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Features
A deeper shade of green
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds’ integration of ESG.
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Job security
Off to Zurich for a day with my colleagues from around Europe. The English talk ‘brainstorming’ and think ‘outside the box’ but we on the continent want to avoid storms.
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Special Report
Custodians seen in a changed light
Sponsors are increasingly seeking the help of custodians as they feel the pressure, along with trustees, to manage risk and achieve service quality, writes Iain Morse
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Special Report
ESG as a legal obligation?
The UN’s Fiduciary II aims to take ESG integration to the next stage, while a shift in US policy is pushing demographic concerns up the agenda. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Interviews
Bigger in Japan
On 30 July Sumitomo Trust and Banking Company, the second biggest money manager in Japan, with assets under management at ¥26trn (€192.3bn), bought Nikko Asset Management, Japan’s seventh largest, with just over ¥9trn. It was second only to BlackRock-BGI in terms of this year’s biggest asset management M&A deals and will create Japan’s new number one, and yet media coverage in Europe was curiously muted.
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Special Report
Top gear?
Leveraged and inverse ETFs have been causing a regulatory fuss in the US. Martin Steward unpicks the issues, and asks if these products are of any relevance to pension fund investors
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Special Report
Liquidity fears dampen alternative ETF allure
While interest grows in new esoteric ETF products, institutional investors are unimpressed with the lack of liquidity in some areas, writes Maha Khan Phillips
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Special Report
An alternative to Spezialfonds
Liam Kennedy spoke with Universal Investment about an alternative to the Spezialfonds that could also assist Germany’s first steps towards attracting international pension pooling business
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Special Report
Case for bespoke asset management
Spezialfonds remain a preferred method of investment for institutional investors. But Till Entzian finds that the investment vehicle could be under threat from AIFM guidelines
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Asset Class Reports
Alpha from uncertainty
The market crash and subsequent super rally has investors in disagreement over the prospects for US equities. This suggests that active management will now make a difference, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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Features
Your money or your life
Life settlements are emerging as a viable form of exposure to the longevity asset class. Martin Steward asks if there is any place for them in a pension fund portfolio
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Features
Collateral quality is key
Many pension funds stopped their securities lending programmes last year, particularly after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. One year on, has this changed? This month’s Off The Record survey looked at how pension funds approach securities lending.
