Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 457
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Features
Polish appointment cheers industry
Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak has been nominated as vice-minister in charge of pensions at the ministry of labour and social policy.
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Shades of asset management
Sinopia, HSBC Investments’ Paris-based quantitative asset management unit, shares its name with a red-brown ochre pigment that was popular in Renaissance wall painting.
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Implementing alpha-beta separation
IPE asked three pension services – in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden – the same question: ‘What does alpha-beta separation mean to you?’ Here are their answers:
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Continuing an upward trend
Dublin’s securities services infrastructure is showing continued growth in niche areas such as alternatives, as Heather McKenzie finds
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Taking a slice of the national pie
Ireland’s reserve fund has proved to be a great success, in part because of its secure funding, says Rachel Fixsen
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Government top-ups are the way
Stephen Lalor and Kirstie Flynn advocate replacing pensions tax relief with a system of state sponsored top-ups
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Raising the state pension
The Green Paper also covers the social welfare system."The government’s commitment to increase the social welfare pension from €223 per week to €300 per week means the first pillar state pension is set to rise to a good level for everyone," says chief executive of corporate business at Irish Life ...
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New man at EFRP
He may be a new broom, but Angel Martinez-Aldama will be sweeping up much of the same old dust, finds George Coats
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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
