All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 14
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Special Report
Multi-Asset Strategies: Can you beat it?
Investors have for years used a 60% allocation to equities and a 40% allocation to bonds (sometimes inverted) as a simple and informal benchmark for an investment strategy
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Features
Switzerland's pensions debate: Negative for longer
Switzerland is engaged in a debate not just about its pension reforms, but also wider issues of intergenerational fairness and the stability of the second-pillar pension system
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News
EIOPA calls for new powers to create pan-European personal pensions
Chairman says CMU project should prioritise supervisory convergence
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: TIAA Global Asset Management
TIAA has been on an expansion path in recent years. The organisation is now busy repositioning itself
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Features
An industrial revolution
There used to be a stark divide in pensions, particularly in the UK and the US, with a high level of security in defined benefit (DB) and a low level in defined contribution (DC)
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Features
Sharp tools needed
Some contend that book reserve pensions took root in Germany because funded pensions, such as they were, had been wiped out in the hyperinflation of the 1920s
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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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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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Features
Brexit: Scheduled for departure
The political and economic ramifications of Brexit are wide-ranging. The effect on Gilts, sterling and equity markets was immediate in the aftermath of the referendum.
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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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NewsIORP II compromise reached, although Dutch presidency remains coy
Official line from Dutch presidency says discussions ‘not quite’ finalised
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Special ReportTop 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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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Book ReviewBook review: Ambachtsheer's 'The Future of Pension Management'
IPE editor Liam Kennedy reviews Keith Ambachtsheer’s latest book on the pensions industry
