Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 512
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Who'd buy a bond from a pension fund?
Shayla Walmsley assesses the worthiness of pension fund bond issues on the back of the recent Wellcome launch
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How DB schemes lost their sheen
Unless DB schemes become more affordable, they may be completely absent from the market in a few years time, writes Paul McGlone
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Plain speaker who raised awareness
Chief executive of the NAPF, Christine Farnish, has consistently argued the cause for the generation following the ‘baby boomers’, writes David White
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Meeting the need to know
For global custodians, information is the new asset class. Across Europe, pension fund boards and trustees are coming under pressure from sponsors, accountants and regulators to provide greater transparency. To do that they need information, not only about the value of their assets, but how that value was created. As ...
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The truth about custodian fees
It could be argued that custodians have had years of super profits due to unadjusted custody fee schedules, opaque charging for foreign exchange and unidentified revenues from spreads on interest paid and charged. However, the past few years have seen significant downward pressure on custodians’ fees and improved transparency of ...
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What is driving the marketplace?
The asset backed market is set to grow and overtake corporate bonds in Europe. Joseph Mariathasan reckons this is just one of the changes facing active bond managers
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Lack of consensus on pensions portability
Many questions remain over the portability of pensions directive and agreement among member states seems as far away as ever, as Violetta Polese reports
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Boutique staying true to its roots
Peter Wilby chose Stone Harbor, a beach town on the east coast of the US, as a location to negotiate a deal to spin off a team of some 65 professionals including 27 investment specialists from the entity created by Legg Mason’s acquisition of Citigroup Asset Management last year. The ...
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Bounce-back factor
Equity returns have been a big driver of performance in recent years for Europe’s funds. Pragma’s Koen De Ryck analyses the trends and Rachel Fixsen reports
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Putting the cart before the horse
The decision to introduce the third pillar before the second in Romania has serious implications for marketing budgets. George Coats reports
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Keeping the first pillar in pole position
Luxembourg has a generous state pension system. But as George Coats reports, it depends on continued economic growth and a steady influx of cross-border workers
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Managing risk in changed times
A new UK regulatory regime calls for a more adept approach to risk management as Joeri Potters, Jeroen van der Hoek, Janwillem Engel discover
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Equity based strategies show improved returns
The month of June was characterised by flat returns on the stock markets, and volatility, still at a low historical level, remained fairly stable. Although the bond market continued its downward trend, returns were insignificant and volatility continued to be stable. Commodity prices increased significantly from their historical mean, driven ...
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Who has the lowest costs of all?
If we measure the long-term average annual investment management cost incurred by funds from different global regions, we find that European funds, at 19 bps, spend the least while Australian funds, at 44 bps, spend the most. However, before we conclude that European funds are the world’s lowest cost funds, ...
