Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 420
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Features
Mending the buck
Martin Steward asks how investors might analyse money market funds after last year’s shock to the system
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Country Report
De-risking redefined
The new importance of bond yields for UK schemes’ solvency underlines the re-thinking of liability-driven investing, bond mandates and the need for tactical decision making, finds Martin Steward
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Country Report
A DC smörgåsbord
Simon Pearse recommends that UK pension trustees should use the Personal Accounts model as a benchmark for their own DC schemes
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Country Report
PADA’s 2012 challenge
Nyree Stewart investigates how the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is faring in its task of delivering a national low cost DC scheme within three years
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Country Report
Basic principles
Richard Lowe assesses the UK’s Investment Governance Group and its ongoing work
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Country Report
Still a realistic option
Charlie Finch and Ken Hardman consider the future direction of the pension buyout market in the UK
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Country Report
Buyouts take a backseat
Buy-in deals are taking over from buyouts as the current economic climate stifles access to sufficient capital, finds Gill Wadsworth
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Features
Leading fund strategies
Nina Röhrbein outlines leading European pension funds’ investment strategies
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Country Report
Accounting for deficits
As UK pension funds continue to battle with worrying deficit levels, there is likely to be more bad news before things get better, finds Richard Lowe
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Country ReportBeset by complications
With DB in retreat and a conspicuous lack of public debate on the future of supplementary retirement provision, where now for UK pensions? Gill Wadsworth assesses progress, including the profound changes in the Pension Act 2008
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Features
Future foundation
Liam Kennedy discussed the investment philosophy of Germany’s VolkswagenStiftung with its CIO, Dieter Lehmann
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Features
The time is right
Paul Kelly and Mitchell Cole discuss why captive reinsurance companies can be useful tools in dealing with DB pensions
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Opinion Pieces
Target date woe
Target date funds (TDF) are still the fastest growing investment option in US 401(k) plans. They have survived the recent hearings held jointly by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Labor (DOL), and the industry’s fear that they were going to be constricted by new heavy rules has waned. But investment companies and plan sponsors must better explain TDF risks to workers if they want to grow further.
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Opinion Pieces
A golden age
“Dealing with the impact of an ageing population in the EU,” a communication from the European Commission, kicks off with the joyful view that: “For the first time in history, the vast majority of Europe’s citizens are able to lead active, healthy and participative lives well into old age.”
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IP Asia
Hugh Young - 'Responsible' Investing Requires Sleuthing
Aberdeen’s investment managers work more like corporate sleuths. They visit every potential investee, chat with senior management to get a feel of the ground that cannot be discerned from reports, watch management’s actions over six to seven years and fine-comb the annual reports before making a decision.
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Features
Euro lottery
The final meeting of the IASB’s Standards Advisory Council in 2007 was memorable for two reasons. First, participants, including the German delegates, were required to stand and observe a one-minute silence to honour British war dead. Second, of particular interest to those Belgian entities hit by a recent IASB decision ...
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Opinion Pieces
Solvency II
The European Commission called representatives of the European pensions and insurance industry and member state officials to a public hearing in May to thrash out a harmonisation of solvency rules for cross-border company pension schemes (IORPs). But most attendees were not receptive.
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint
“The real goal of risk management is to give decision makers a more intimate understanding of their portfolio”
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FeaturesDawn of a new normal
In the first article covering a new global study, Jim McCaughan, Neeraj Sahai and Amin Rajan argue that what asset managers do next will decide their industry’s fate
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Features
Rebuilding trust in DC
DC plan members carry all the downside risk in the UK and Ireland, and took a particularly bad beating in 2008. Gail Moss assesses what can be done to improve the situation
