Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 449
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FeaturesLooking for second pillar growth
Recent legislation has mainly given third pillar pension providers a boost, finds Reeta Paakkinen
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Dead man walking
Question: What starts with ‘P’ and ends in chaos? Answer: The International Accounting Standards Board’s Phase I pensions accounting project. It has all been a bad dream. That was the message from the 21 April joint board meeting in London between the IASB and the US Financial Accounting Standards. At ...
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An imbalanced market
The UK has the most stringent pension indexation requirements of all the OECD countries. Joseph Mariathasan here points out the pressures that are pushing pension funds towards low-yielding assets such as inflation linkers
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Rally in credit
Yield curve/duration There is a growing consensus that the demise of Bear Stearns, the US investment bank, may have marked the low point of the current financial market problems. Although liquidity remains low and interbank lending is still far from normal, the belief seems to be that the worst of ...
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FeaturesA very nice professional life
Gilbert Dewanckele recently retired as company actuary and the actuary at the pension funds of Belgian insurer Vivium, which had assets under management of €2.5bn. He talks to George Coats about his career
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Special ReportSqueezed from all sides
Rachel Fixsen reviews the regulatory pressures facing European pension funds
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Special ReportRestoring trust in credit rating agencies
Charles Cronin says that credit rating agencies must rebuild investors’ confidence in the way they rate structured products
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Inflation assets: alternatives from inflation
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the use of alternative assets as a means of protecting against inflation.
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FeaturesHoliday season
In July last year the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit what was then an all time high, closing above 14,000 for the first time. All seemed set fair. Banks were announcing record results, house prices moved inexorably upwards and the former CEO of Citigroup was still cutting a rug. In ...
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FeaturesInflation seller: Øresund Bridge
While pension funds, insurers and private investors benefit from lower inflation, public authorities and enterprises, utilities, real estate and distribution companies profit from higher inflation. So, the latter group can benefit from becoming inflation sellers, according to a Fortis Investments reports, ‘Inflation swaps to safeguard future income or hedge against ...
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Special ReportBringing in the euro
Some Cypriot funds have been using this year’s euro accession to professionalise their portfolios, finds George Coats
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A wait-and-see approach
New investment regulations have not had a great impact on Greek funds’ investments, says Reeta Paakkinen
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FeaturesDiminishing the mismatch
Fundamental indices could help mend the mismatch between assets and liabilities. David White reports
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FeaturesLongevity index spreads its wings
Faced with ageing members and increasing liabilities, pension funds and other institutional investors are paying greater attention to the risk presented by longevity. And in this environment, JPMorgan’s LifeMetrics index - which claims to be the first international longevity index - is spreading into several countries. As one of three ...
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Special ReportPhasing in changes
A reform package due to be implemented later this year will reduce the burden on the state pension system but falls short of adding a second pillar, says Reeta Paakkinen
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FeaturesDealing with inflation
IPE asked three pension funds – in Austria, Finland and the Netherlands – the same question: ‘How do you protect your investments from inflation?’ Here are their answers:
