Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 426
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Country Report
Two pairs of eyes
Clemens Schuerhoff and Hans-Jürgen Dannheisig argue that the German regulatory principles have helped maintain investors’ trust in the asset management and servicing sectors
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Country ReportKeep it simple
Frank Schnattinger gives an overview of the most recent IPE Institutional Investment survey of German investors attitudes and intentions
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Country Report
Funding in a changed world
Liam Kennedy assesses the measures German companies are taking to address pension funding issues and future plan design
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Features
In the real world
Nina Röhrbein discusses indexation policy and inflation protection with Mariëtte Simons, director at the Utrecht-based Pensioenfonds SNS Reaal
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Features
Time is money
Gail Moss looks at German time-value accounts, which provide a model for flexible DC saving and early retirement provision
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Interviews
Increase the checks and balances
On The Record: How are you dealing with risk management in the current climate?
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint
“If the PPF were to be overwhelmed by claims, the taxpayer would almost certainly end up paying”
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Features
Coffee-break standard
For International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) chairman Sir David Tweedie, a short coffee break is also a chance to determine how businesses should present defined benefit (DB) pension costs in their financial statements.
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Opinion Pieces
University challenge
Even the ‘smartest’ money is suffering. US university endowments, the early adopters of alternative and esoteric investments, which were often recommended by their most brilliant alumni, are experiencing huge problems because of the market downturn and the illiquidity of those assets, compounded by the increase of expenses and the decline of revenues, including donations.
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Features
Governance: more questions than answers
At IPE’s Pension Fund Governance Forum last month, Karel Stroobants, independent trustee and former director of the Belgian Amonis fund, wanted to know why there was so little debate on how the guardians of $20-plus trillion in retirement wealth actually govern themselves.
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Features
Crisis blame game at NAPF conference
It was no surprise that the main focus of the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) annual investment conference was less on what strategies schemes can or should adopt and more on whether trustees were to blame for the current economic crisis.
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Features
Most returns firmly in the red
The continuing downward trend of pension fund solvency levels means even those funds which came even close to zero return could see their asset allocation scrutinised by colleagues.
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Country ReportIt’s all a matter of timing
Market downturns and French pension reforms appear to co-incide. George Coats assesses the issues
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Country Report
Missed opportunity
Employee savings plans could have been the next big thing in French financial services but they have failed to take off. Alain Lemoine examines why
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Country Report
RAPF: allocating for the long term
The past year has been a busy one for RAFP, the €6.3bn French civil service supplementary pension scheme that was established in 2005
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Country Report
Flying a flag for the Perco
In 2004 Christel Bapt and Benoît Magnier saw an opening in the market. At the time they were both working for bfinance, but they decided to branch out on their own and formed Altedia Investment Consulting.
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Country Report
Forced to settle for a draw
The FRR has looked vulnerable for some time and the market downturn has not helped its cause. But it has fought off the immediate threats to its future, finds George Coats
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Country ReportA Napoleonic view of sovereign wealth
Last October president Nicolas Sarkozy surprised a European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg by announcing that France was to have a sovereign wealth fund. Subsequently, government officials spoke of a €100bn fund.
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Country ReportStart of consolidation wave?
The SGAM/CAAM merger is expected to trigger a shakeout among French asset managers. George Coats examines why it is happening and what the new landscape might look like
