All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 13
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Aviva Investors
At Standard Life Investments, Euan Munro broke the mould in two ways as the founder of the Global Absolute Return Strategy (GARS) fund
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Special Report
Interview: Keith Ambachtsheer
Liam Kennedy in conversation with Keith Ambachtsheer. His latest book, The Future of Pension Management, was published earlier this year
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News
Liam Kennedy on Brexit: Scheduled for departure
IPE’s editor highlights five consequences of today’s Brexit vote for European pensions
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News
IORP II compromises on cross-border funding, requires stranded-asset check
Dutch presidency sees text of new IORP Directive as ‘final package’
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News
IORP II compromise reached, although Dutch presidency remains coy
Official line from Dutch presidency says discussions ‘not quite’ finalised
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Features
A thin regulatory line
Back in the 1990s, the UK created a Child Support Agency, whose objective was to ensure errant fathers and mothers pay due financial maintenance to estranged offspring
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Features
Interview: Ros Altmann, UK Pensions Minister
Implementing long-term policy in a political world dominated by the short-term news cycle seems horrifyingly difficult. Unlike the primarily consensus-driven policy making of our European neighbours, UK public policy is frequently devised with more than half an eye to news headlines.
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Special Report
Top 400 Asset Managers 2016: Global assets now €56.3trn
Assets managed by the leading global asset managers increased by nearly 12% over the course of last year, according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey. This is less than the 17.8% increase recorded over the course of 2014, although higher than 2013’s 8.9% increase.
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Special Report
Driven by innovation
Perhaps no instruments reflect the diversity and innovation of the financial sector better than exchange-traded funds (ETFs). They are also now a firm fixture of pension fund investing, embraced by 37% of European institutional investors, as EDHEC-Risk’s latest survey shows.
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Features
Up the knowledge curve
Public understanding of long-term investment can be limited. Repeated exercises in the Netherlands have shown that when pension fund members are asked about their investment-risk tolerance, they say they want a higher return and no risk
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Book Review
Book Review: The Future of Pension Management
Where others might lose themselves in a discussion on organisational design, regulation or social policy, Keith Ambachtsheer’s book wastes no time in placing pension funds at the heart of capitalism
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Special Report
Special Report Credit: Avoid the flashpoints
Spreads and liquidity are two current (and seemingly perennial) concerns for investors navigating their way along the credit spectrum. To add to that, investors are now assessing the effect of the ECB’s announcement that it will extend asset purchases to investment-grade bonds
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Book Review
Book review: Ambachtsheer's 'The Future of Pension Management'
IPE editor Liam Kennedy reviews Keith Ambachtsheer’s latest book on the pensions industry
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Features
Breaking Germany’s mould
Federal civil servants at two government ministries are searching for a workable policy to promote occupational pensions
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: SCOR Investment Partners
It took François de Varenne, CEO of SCOR Global Investments and SCOR Investment Partners, two years to convince the group to hold insurance risk on its own balance sheet
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Features
Interview: Gabriel Bernardino, EIOPA
EIOPA chairman Gabriel Bernardino explains why the recent stress tests of European occupational pension funds were a valuable exercise
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Features
ABP open season
Would you set up an ABP now if you were creating a public sector pension regime from scratch for the Netherlands? The simplicity of a single scheme and the economies of scale in investment and administration all call for it. But other factors speak against
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Features
Is your roof fixed?
With market volatility, oil price falls, interest rate increases in the US and QE in Europe, the investment landscape has rarely looked so clouded
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News
BlackRock to combine active equity capabilities, create real assets group
Head of institutional client business for EMEA to move to new position
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Features
Outsourcing: Avoid the bear traps
In a BBC radio programme last year on business issues, the CEO of Serco, Rupert Soames, said that only “stupid people and lazy people” should not outsource