All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 19
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NewsTowers Watson establishes separate fiduciary management team, appoints CIO
Chris Mansi, chair of the consultancy’s UK portfolio construction group, named CIO.
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NewsWhat the revised IORP Directive should focus on
The original Directive was inadvisable for a number of reasons, says Liam Kennedy.
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Features
Focus on DC
It is difficult to retain sight of the founding principles of the EU’s Pensions Directive (IORP) when confronted with the 500-page response of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) to the EC’s call for advice last April on its review of the legislation.
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NewsIn praise of long-termism
Liam Kennedy encourages the newly launched 300 Club to champion the long-term view.
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Features
The long-termists
As those who watched the 2006 film ‘300’ will remember, ‘the 300’ refers to the band of Spartans who heroically fought against the Persians at the battle of Thermopylae in 480BC. A modern re-incarnation – The 300 Club – has been brought to life by Saker Nusseibeh, CIO of Hermes ...
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Features
Search for advantage in a crowded market
Why launch an emerging market debt (EMD) strategy when there are already 40-plus institutional competitors in the market? First State Investments – which has just hired Helene Williamson from F&C Asset Management along with Jan-Markus May, Manuel Cañas and Philip Fielding to run the strategy – did not make the decision for short-term reasons, according to Gary Withers, the firm’s EMEA managing director.
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NewsInvestment experts launch 300 Club to combat 'dangerous' market behaviour
Group aims to raise awareness about impact of current market thinking and behaviours.
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Features
Liam Kennedy: Two paths, not irreconcilable
Two books landed on my desk in September – one on the subject of good pension governance, the other on retirement income.
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Features
Central direction, local implementation
Liam Kennedy spoke with Benedikt Köster and Sven Rogge about Deutsche Post DHL’s pension risk management framework and its implementation
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NewsLiam Kennedy: Break some policy eggs
After years of poor occupational pensions policy, the UK is finally doing something.
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Features
Liam Kennedy: Break some policy eggs
After years of poorly conceived occupational pensions policy, the UK is finally attempting to remedy the situation – at least in the defined contribution area.
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NewsWhat do pensions regulators need?
Regulators must do more to create rules that take better account of risk.
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Features
What do regulators need?
Pension regulators come in a variety of shapes and forms. Sometimes those forms change to reflect prevailing wisdom on the best constitution of financial regulatory and supervisory bodies.
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Features
Risk abides, man changes his mind
Financial risks grow and subside with economic cycles but always remain. Human attitudes towards them also vary. Arguably they matter more and often change the most. Allianz Global Investors’ first RiskMonitor survey, conducted in conjunction with IPE, paints a picture of pension funds’ current attitudes to risk and how they are changing.
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NewsInfrastructure: The road to salvation or hell?
Liam Kennedy looks at the reasons for and against infrastructure investments.
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Features
Liam Kennedy: Infrastructure pains
The US pioneered the development of modern fast roads with its interstate highway network in the 1950s and 60s. Yet the August 2007 collapse of the Mississippi Bridge in Minnesota highlighted the decrepit state of some of this infrastructure. And it is not just roads that need to be developed.
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NewsHermes Fund Managers to offer 'internal consultancy'
Plans to share with clients same reporting seen by trustees of BT Pension Scheme.
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Features
Liam Kennedy: A tale of two CIOs
APG in the Netherlands and Hermes in the UK – two pension management organisations that are owned by their largest client, respectively the largest pension funds in their two countries.
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Features
Meet the new investment office
Saker Nusseibeh, head of investment at Hermes Fund Managers, sees something wrong in the current system of pension fund management, which he believes prioritises product proliferation and a mentality of ‘buyer beware’ over trusted advice.
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Interviews
Accent on EM capability
Rudolf Apenbrink, HSBC Global Asset Management’s new EMEA CEO, outlined his firm’s strategy to Liam Kennedy following the integration of its Halbis and Sinopia brands
