All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 24
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Features
Tempered optimism across Europe
IPE asked six pension organisations across Europe: ‘How have you been affected by the recent market turmoil?’ Interviews conducted by Nina Röhrbein/Liam Kennedy/George Coats
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FeaturesPressure to re-bundle
Liam Kennedy concludes that the German version of fiduciary management will look different from its Dutch counterpart
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FeaturesImplementing personal accounts
Liam Kennedy spoke to Paul Myners, chairman of PADA, about default options, charges and implementing best practice for the new personal accounts system
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FeaturesThe step-by-step route towards efficiency
Liam Kennedy speaks to Bernhard Wiesner, head of corporate pensions at German multinational Bosch, about the challenges faced by creating a single Europe-wide pension scheme
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Mn Services plans UK debut
[10:00 CEST 23-05] UK/NETHERLANDS - Mn Services, the Dutch pension provider and fiduciary manager, is in the advanced stages of recruiting an individual to head a UK office slated for opening by the end of the year.
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Watson Wyatt calls on pension funds to review focus
[14:00 CEST 15-05] GLOBAL - Pension funds should reduce their external investment management costs by 10 basis points and use this saving to increase their internal resources, consulting firm Watson Wyatt has suggested.
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Funding: getting it off your chest
The Pensionsfonds vehicle was created in to fund pension liabilities off balance sheet. Liam Kennedy assesses views on funding trends in German corporates
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German pensions "suffer advice gap"
[14:00 CEST 07-04] GERMANY – The German funded pension system is suffering from a lack of quality advice provision for individuals, Prof Bert Rürup told today’s Handelsblatt occupational pensions conference in Berlin.
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FeaturesThe sleeping giant of Valley Forge
A triumvirate of US asset managers dominate passive investment. Between them, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), Vanguard and Barclays Global Investors (BGI) manage over $3.5trn (€2.3trn). But while BGI and SSgA have built hedge fund and active management businesses, and have swept up business in European pension markets, Vanguard has ...
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Fortis Investments looks to fiduciary
The fortunes of a CEO can vary with the tides, particularly when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Sometimes a merger makes their position redundant; other times it can catapult the CEO to the helm of a new entity that has changed beyond recognition. Fortis Investments’ future was ...
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Hewitt reveals details of its delegated consulting future
[11:00 CET 05-03] GLOBAL - Hewitt is to offer pooled liability matching fund and a diversified growth fund as part of its move to what it terms delegated consulting, the firm has confirmed.
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Special ReportInvestment consultants forum
Liam Kennedy spoke to senior figures from Hewitt, Mercer and Watson Wyatt about the new partnership-based relationships that they are forging with their clients
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Shades of asset management
Sinopia, HSBC Investments’ Paris-based quantitative asset management unit, shares its name with a red-brown ochre pigment that was popular in Renaissance wall painting.
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CPP IB: Heed our cry
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is concerned about protectionist legislation directed at sovereign wealth funds. Gail Cook-Bennett, chair of CPP IB, outlined her vision of governance and transparency to Liam Kennedy
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Looking for long-term solutions
Positioning a relatively new investment company is not always an easy feat when the world is stuffed full of boutiques and behemoths of all hues and everything in between.
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Special Report
On the sustainable growth path
A tried and tested path for asset managers on the expansion warpath is to buy up competitors or boutiques. But many over eager acquisitions have failed on the tricky side of the equation – the integration of people and processes into a larger unit.
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Taking account of quants
Some quantitative investment models performed erratically this summer, leading to losses for investors in some high profile hedge funds. Liam Kennedy asks two quant specialists about this summer’s events and the lessons for investors
