All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 25
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Special Report
Why governance is key for Kitts
Liam Kennedy spoke to Arno Kitts about how he is getting along as investment council chairman for the UK NAPF
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News
Institutions’ 130/30 appetite tops €6bn - IPE study
[16:30 CEST 10-10] EUROPE – European institutional assets in 130/30 and other allied strategies exceed €6bn, according to a survey published in the October edition of IPE.
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Features
Shifting horizons
The AHV/AVS Swiss Federal Social Security Buffer Fund, continues to diversify its assets − this year investing into commodities and Japanese small cap equities. However, it faces a long-term funding crisis that could see its assets dwindle to nothing within eight years. Liam Kennedy spoke with Eric Breval, the fund’s managing director
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Features
Germany's wise man of pensions
Prof Bert Rürup is a well-known figure in Germany and has played an important role in recent years in the formation of public pension policy. He spoke to Liam Kennedy about reform and the future
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News
Mercer takes implemented consulting to Europe
[11:08 CEST 12-09] EUROPE - Mercer intends to expand its implemented consulting activities to win business in Ireland and the UK, as well as in fiduciary management in the Netherlands over the next 3-5 years.
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Features
The 2.0 multi-asset comeback
Diversified growth funds give smaller and mid sized pension funds access to a greater range of asset classes than they might otherwise be able to handle, including alternatives. Liam Kennedy reports
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News
F&C moves 130/30 into Europe
[16:30 CEST 26-07] UK - F&C, the fund manager majority-owned by Friends Provident, is to expand its newly-launched UK 130/30 strategy into European equities.
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News
Cardano debuts new consultancy model in UK
[17:00 CEST 19-07] UK - Cardano, the Rotterdam-based consultant specialising in derivatives and risk, is now actively competing against mainstream UK firms for investment consulting business.
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News
Rethink global equities, says Pioneer
[16:45 CEST 11-07] GLOBAL - Asset managers must rethink the way they present global equity products, according to Pioneer Investments’ global head of institutional business, Paul Price: “The age of the product push is over,” he said today.
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Features
Introducing a competitive element
Portugal’s state social security buffer fund is at the threshold of two changes – the outsourcing of assets and the introduction of a new defined contribution regime within the first pillar. Liam Kennedy asked Manuel Pedro Baganha of FEFSS about these changes and how they will affect the fund
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Features
Asset managers look beyond TFR
If TFR is unattractive for most asset managers, where are they looking for opportunities? Liam Kennedy investigates
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News
SWIP loses another key player
[10:39 CEST 29-06] UK - Chris Walker, managing director for international business at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has “left to pursue other interests”, the company has confirmed.
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News
AP7 to seek new tenders as Carnegie wins equity deal
[13:17 CEST 12-06] SWEDEN - AP7, the Swedish national fund for the PPM first pillar pension system, has appointed Stockholm-based Carnegie for a second pure alpha equity overlay mandate and will soon seek additional managers in the Asian and passive sectors.
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News
BidRoute launches to improve the buy route
[16:26 CEST 05/06] EUROPE - A new trading platform for asset managers, which has the potential to break the stranglehold of the top brokerage firms for portfolio trades, could dramatically improve the quality of trading data fund managers present to clients.
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News
Differing regulations create funding pressures - OECD
[12:53 CEST 11/05] EUROPE - Divergent pension regulation is triggering perceptions of a pension crisis according to a study prepared for the OECD by Risklab Germany.
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Features
Thinking for the future
Where does a pension fund get ideas about a new asset class? ABP Investments is asking its staff to think about new asset classes and has created an ‘innovation committee’ to assess them. Liam Kennedy reports
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News
K2 on acquisition trail after TA deal
GLOBAL - K2, the US based fund of hedge funds business, is to search for European and Asian acquisition targets following a deal with TA Associates, which is to take a “substantial minority stake” in the business.
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News
Hedge Fund predicts “wave” of activist investment
EUROPE - Europe should expect a “tsunami wave” of activist investment in the coming decade, according to Florian Homm, CIO of the hedge fund group Absolute Capital Management (ACM).
