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Overdoing the doom and gloom
Off The Record is an opportunity for readers of Investment & Pensions Europe to say what they think about topical issues. This month’s Off The Record looks at the year ahead and asks what we can expect in 2008.
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Turkey's Oyak diversifies abroad
Oyak, the €5.5bn pension fund of the Turkish armed forces, is to invest in foreign assets for the first time since it was established over 40 years ago.
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Alpha through restructuring
Paolo Barbieri discusses the opportunites provided by restructuring hedge funds
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Getting the message across
Bridging the communications gap between provider and member is a difficult task, Julie Henderson finds
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Caught in the headlights
How has the sub-prime affair and resulting liquidity crisis affected the institutional investment management paradigm? Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Special Report
Here comes the sun
Over the past couple of years, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to sustainability and alternative energy funds by media and investors alike. And typically, one of the components of alternative energy funds is solar power technology, also known as photovoltaics (PV). Many in the investment industry hold ...
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Capturing opportunities
George Inderst assesses the factors that will drive asset allocation this year
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Shifting the goal posts
The scope of IASB’s phase I pensions accounting project has widened since it was announced in July 2006. Stephen Bouvier trawled through the official sound archives to set the record straight
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Going global in fixed income
The liquidity crisis in the credit market caused by the US sub-prime upheaval is prompting institutions to switch their allocation from local to global fixed income. Joseph Mariathasan explains why and considers the implications.
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Risky business
Pension funds have come far in their approaches to risk management. Some risks, however, are harder to mitigate than others. Maha Khan Phillips reports
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Keeping a Rendezvous
The government and its social partners are due to discuss pension reform as projected deficits rise. George Coats reports that fundamental change will not be on the agenda
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Transition revamped
Most transition managers have already signed up to the T-Charter code of best practice. Rick di Mascio gives his opinion on progress so far
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Sticking to the plan
Paul Haines, investment director at DMGT Pensions in London, and a former investment consultant, discusses the future of consulting, the dangers of SRI and the positive influence of heavy metal music with Brendan Maton
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Special Report
Healthy investment
Michael Pederson, CIO of PKA, the Danish health and social services workers’ fund, tells Brendan Maton about the positive side to principled investment
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Which way to go?
The government’s Green Paper is focusing attention on the options to develop Ireland’s pensions sector. Nina Röhrbein reviews them
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Looking to the future
Orlaigh Quinn outlines the role the The Green Paper on Pensions will play in the evolution of Irish pensions policy
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The impact of immigration
For the past decade Ireland, long seen as a country from which people emigrated, has witnessed a strong influx of immigrants, particularly from eastern Europe. But this phenomenon is still too recent to be able to lead to any conclusions of its impact on the pensions industry. “A lot of ...
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Counting the cost of a downturn
Irish pension funds find out the hard way that eggs really should be kept in more than one basket, Rachel Fixsen discovers
