Liability-Driven Investing – Page 5
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Delta Lloyd scheme splits matching holdings into LDI, spread portfolios
It will also raise its stake in emerging market equity as well as real estate to 16.7%
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Philips scheme to reinvest most of its 7.5% cash holdings
Cash was the scheme’s only asset class generating a negative return last year
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Increased credit allocation could improve schemes’ liquidity, says AXA IM
Expect equity to remain volatile with a ’significant risk of a second leg down’
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Smurfit Kappa UK appoints River and Mercantile for £1.16bn
The contract includes a fiduciary management mandate for £630m and an LDI brief worth £530m
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NewsUK yield movements fuel collateral requests
Pension schemes should understand what liquidity is like
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NewsMandate roundup: Swiss scheme tenders low vol brief via IPE Quest
Plus: Brunel picks BlackRock for risk management framework
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NewsUK schemes preparing for endgame with equity cuts and liability hedges
Aon survey shows pension funds are stepping up de-risking activity and allocating more to alternative asset classes
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Special Report
Liability Strategies - Consolidator funds: New tools, new models
Can consolidator funds provide an additional tool for UK pension schemes approaching the defined benefit endgame?
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Special ReportCommentary: The endgame
UK pension funds should consider nine dimensions as they move to deris
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Special ReportCDI takes root
Matching and cashflow strategies are gaining ground around continental Europe, sometimes with a green tinge
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NewsLDI market breaches £1trn as smaller schemes join hedging trend
XPS Investment attributes most of 2018 growth to new mandates, mainly from smaller schemes
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Generali Investments splits to create LDI specialist arm
LDI arm separates from ‘growth engine’, which will consist of ‘unconstrained and distinctive’ strategies
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Japanese pension funds rethink asset allocation strategies – survey
Funds increasingly adopting strategies modelled on variety of role-, risk- or factor-based approaches
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Dutch regulators follow ESMA's advice on central clearing
DNB and AFM confirm they will not enforce rules during legal gap in EMIR exemption for pension funds
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UK regulator heeds ESMA call for discretion over clearing obligation
National supervisors told to “not prioritise” enforcing EMIR rules on pension funds during expected temporary gap in exemption
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NewsPensionsEurope calls for clearing assurance following EMIR delay
Current exemption from central clearing to run out before new rules enter into force
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Country ReportDutch regulator replaces LDI manager on €1.9bn pension scheme
BlackRock replaced by Cardano but will stay on as fiduciary manager
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Country ReportUK roundup: Agreement struck on USS valuations; UK approaching peak LDI
Plus: UK approaching ‘peak LDI’; Xafinity Punter Southall calls for legal separation of consultants and fiduciary managers
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NewsLiability-matching portfolios ‘should also generate returns’
Panellists at Pensioen Pro conference call for Dutch government to issue inflation-linked bonds
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Joseph Mariathasan: Discount rates and error margins
If too much credence is given to measurements without understanding their limitations, it can create chaos
