Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 483
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Concentrating on liabilities
As risk becomes a focus, independent consultants are emerging to meet the needs of pensions funds and other investors. Lynn Strongin Dodds examines how they compare with traditional players
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Looking for alternative advice
Can the mainstream advisers provide what pension investors need on hedge funds and private equity or do they have to turn to specialist investment consultants? Gail Moss investigates
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Convergence still a mirage
The search for a consistent approach to solvency looks a long way off – leaving regulatory arbitrage as a distinct possibility. David White reports
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An investor's guide to essential services
Infrastructure assets can add diversity and help reduce volatility for institutional investors, but it is not all sweetness and light, as Morag Torrance explains
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Pan-European pension moves a step nearer
A recent ruling by the ECJ should prevent member states from discriminating against the pension contributions paid to funds in another EU member state, as Peter Schonewille reports
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Building successful client relationships
The carrot rather than the stick is the best way of encouraging client relationship managers to carry out their responsibilities effectively, Simon Murray believes
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Lobby group attacks pan-European move
Brussels-based body representing US companies blames lack of mobility of EU workers on tax obstacles and poor co-ordination, as Jeremy Woolf reports
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Special Report
Steering a careful path between DB and DC
In his new book Keith Ambachtsheer advocates a pensions revolution based on sustainability and transparency, as Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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Giving the euro the benefit of the doubt
The euro has disappointed both its admirers and its critics. It has neither succeeded nor failed dramatically. Officially launched on 1 January 1999, some said that it would fly like a bird and others that it would sink like a lead balloon. Both, in different degrees, have been proved wrong
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Sticking to one's principles
Peter Damgaard Jensen of PKA in Denmark talks about his mentors in pensions and investments
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Customer intimacy with a spider's touch
Radical changes in the printing industry have spurred Holland’s GBF pension fund manager to adopt a more active open-ended asset management style and closer focus on customer needs. David White reports
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Mitigating cross-border concerns
In the decade since the first issue of IPE, investors have become keenly aware that the currency risk attached to their investment allocations has a substantial and continuous impact on their returns. For example, UK pension plans invested in US equities, which rose 13.6% in 2006, saw that return erased ...
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Buy-out business grows as funds seek cost savings
The Netherlands in particular has seen a big increase in the use of external specialists as regulatory pressures grow and qualified staff prove hard to come by, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Bringing it back in-house is better
In 2005, the Pensioensfonds Horeca & Catering (PH&C) scheme in the Netherlands decided to pull away administration from third party provider PVF Achmea and bring it back in-house. Administration at the sectoral fund - which covers the hotel, restaurant and catering industry - had been outsourced ever since the fund ...
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Outsourcing for efficiency
Over the past few years, several pension funds in Europe have opted to spin off their administrative department into a separate pensions services company. But such moves are not about creating new profit centres - they are seen as freeing the operations up to focus on their main activity and ...
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USS restructures its custody arrangements
he UK’s £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has awarded ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services a £5bn global custody, cash management and securities lending solutions mandate, while the fund re-appointed JPMorgan as custodian for £24bn of its assets. The move follows USS’s 2005 review of all its custody arrangements, ...
