Latest Special Reports – Page 95
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Smart Beta: Re-balance of payments
Market-cap equity indices have come in for stiff criticism over recent years, but Martin Steward finds their shortcomings are nothing compared with the bond market. A new breed of indices attempts to address their worst failings
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Special ReportRisk Parity: The truly balanced portfolio
Martin Steward spoke with Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, the pioneer of alpha/beta separation and risk parity, about strategic diversified beta portfolios
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Top 400: Chief concerns
We asked 28 asset management CEOs, CIOs and other senior figures about institutional investment, regulation and corporate governance
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DC in Europe: Avoiding a sticking-plaster solution
It is not enough that DB schemes have failed for investors to switch to DC schemes – the latter have to succeed in their own right, argues Amin Rajan
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DC in Europe: Opening Pandora’s box
Cécile Sourbes considers how the European Commission plans to regulate defined contribution pensions
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DC in Europe: A slow but necessary transition
Rachel Fixsen assesses Denmark’s transition away from DC with guarantees to unit-linked schemes – a move accelerated by the EU’s Solvency II regime
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DC in Europe: Waiting for reforms
Talks on reforming Italy’s pension fund legislation to allow schemes to invest in a greater choice of asset classes have been going on for years. Nina Rohrbein reports
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DC in Europe: Lower conversion rate plans
The Swiss government is looking to lower the second-pillar pension system’s conversion rate to avoid the need for further adjustments in the near future, finds Nina Rohrbein
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DC in Europe: Transition market
The UK trend from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes is expected to intensify with the advent of auto-enrolment and to trigger innovation in investment options, finds Nina Rohrbein
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DC in Europe: Australia at a crossroads
Australia has been the poster child of the DC world – yet some are now asking whether there is a better alternative, writes Michael Block
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Special ReportLiability-Driven Investing: Best foot forward
As short rates collapsed and curves steepened over the past three years, pension funds have become more attuned to forward rates when deciding to de-risk or to take active risk with their LDI portfolios. Martin Steward finds out why
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Liability-Driven Investing: Enhancing returns while managing risk
Lynn Strongin Dodds surveys the active management techniques and diverse set of instruments that are now found in
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Liability-Driven Investing:Making the trend your friend
Do absolute- return bond strategies have a role to play in LDI? Martin Steward considers the possibilities
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Moves in microfinance
Despite suffering some negative perceptions, the asset class is cleaning up its act and gaining new fans, says Nina Röhrbein
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Boutique Asset Managers: In at the ground floor
Even if the performance benefits of early-stage managers might be contested,Lynn Strongin Dodds identifies further positives in the form of negotiated fees, revenue sharing and direct-ownership opportunities
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Boutique Asset Managers: IMQubator: giving talent a push
Capitalised in January 2009 with €250m from the Netherlands’ APG following the recommendation of a working group from the Holland Financial Centre, IMQubator intermediates the allocation of seeding and operational capital from third-party institutional investors to early-stage boutiques. Martin Steward spoke to founder and CEO Jeroen Tielman about the business ...
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Boutique Asset Managers: Size bias
In today’s environment pension funds ought to seek absolute returns, write Jeroen Tielman and Hamlin Lovell. And if you are after absolute returns, it pays to go with smaller, younger managers
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Boutique Asset Managers: The case for scale
Charles Prideaux examines how a judicious combination of scale and tailoring can help institutional investors meet the specific outcomes they need
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Boutique Asset Managers: Boutique snapshots
From the expense of building vital infrastructure, through choosing the right institutional partners, to reconciling the freedom to run high-conviction strategies with the challenge of selling them to suitable investors. Martin Steward speaks to a range of European asset managers about the boutique experience
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Boutique Asset Managers: Best of both worlds?
Charlotte Moore looks beyond the familiar story about the advantages of the multi-boutique model, and finds that setting one up is easier said than done, and that some of the supposed benefits are contested
