Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 494
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Features
Make way for the 'IW PEPP'
With the portability directive hitting opposition, Geoffrey Furlonger suggests that the way forward could be pan-European industry-wide schemes
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Responding to the challenges
Corporate pensions are facing contentious issues right across the board. Rachel Fixsen talks to a range of funds to find out how they are responding. We also highlight the issues of tax, IAS19, asset pooling, liabilities, airlines, multinational pooling and portability
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Tax and pan-European pensions
A big barrier to pan-European pensions - taxation - is being lifted, according to the European Commission’s (EC) Peter Schonewille. Speaking at Multi Pensions 2006 in Amsterdam, Schonewille said that cross-border tax deductions for contributions paid to pension funds in other member states no longer presented an obstacle in 20-22 ...
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Features
Making sense of information
In a dramatically changed research landscape, BNY ConvergEx now offers a new service for both independent research firms and money managers. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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Face of sector to continue changing
IPE asked three pension funds – in the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands – the same question: ‘What challenges and opportunities do you expect to face in 2007?’ Here are their answers:
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Ten or 12 funds set to dominate
Joseph Mariathasan looks at where the private equity market is heading and asks whether now is the time to subject them to regulatory scrutiny
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Ahead in 2007
IPE has asked three pensions funds, three investment managers and three consultants to give their opinions on some key issues that will be facing the pensions industry over the coming year
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Special Report
Money with a conscience
Robert Rubenstein finds bodies with a social mission reluctant to commit their endowments to social investments
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Features
India: a commitment, not just an asset allocation
Ian McEvatt of Iceman Capital Advisors believes investors should be exposed to India because it has characteristics which distinguish it among developing markets
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Where is India heading?
Indian Fund expert Jacqueline Aldhous, manager of the Forsyth India Fund of Funds, assesses the current market conditions and highlights some of her top fund picks
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Keeping a lid on volatility
While it has a high exposure to equities, the Singapore Management University Endowment fund, safeguards against risk by investing in a wide range of asset classes, writes Richard Newell
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When tradition meets modernity
The University of Melbourne fund is run along US lines with an ever increasing attention to private equity but it is careful to retain a strong sense of the past, writes Richard Newell
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The dynamics of Asia currency
Kevin Hebner argues that the key to investing in Asia, including the currency markets, is a grasp of the underlying market drivers
