Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 418
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FeaturesGermany: More paperwork
Low equity exposure, strict regulations regarding guarantees and a rise in actuarial interest rates have left the German pension system relatively unscathed, according to Barbara Ottawa
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FeaturesIceland: After the meltdown
Icelandic pension funds may no longer invest abroad, but hope that this restriction will be lifted as soon as possible, finds Christine Senior
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FeaturesIreland: Crisis spurs change
Nyree Stewart assesses regulatory changes to Ireland’s pension system
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FeaturesNetherlands: Pragmatism reigns
Mariska van der Westen and Liam Kennedy review the changes that The Hague has in mind for Dutch pension funds this year and next
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Norway: Little interest in new individual savings system
Christine Senior assesses regulatory developments around pensions in Norway
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FeaturesItaly: Crisis puts reforms on hold
A further campaign to increase membership of private pension schemes is not expected until economic prospects improve, reports Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesPortugal: Eyes on risk management
New regulations aim to strengthen awareness of risk, even though Portuguese pension funds have been less affected by the financial crisis than some, reports Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesSpain: Pensions go off the radar
Spain’s ageing population means problems ahead for the pensions system, but proposals to deal with them are not expected until next year, reports Nina Röhrbein
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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.
