All IPE articles in May 2007 (Magazine)
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Features
Crowding out enterprise annuity pensions
Victor Wong argues that, with China's basic pension system under increasing pressure, the enterprise annuity programme may be a casualty
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Asian hedge funds - from youth to maturity
After a period working in North America, Paul Smith assesses the challenges of building a substantial asset management business in Asia
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Widening the net in Pakistan
Moiz Mushir Ahmad Khan describes how Pakistan’s Voluntary Pension System has finally come into force
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Hedge funds: the way to play emerging markets
Peter Douglas believes hedge funds offer a route to better returns and effective risk management in developing markets
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Emerging markets - too big to ignore
In a detailed paper, ‘Efficiently adding emerging market equities to a global portfolio’, Northern Trust’s Steven Schoenfeld and Alain Cubeles argue that investors should commit 7-8% of their global equity portfolios to the class. Here is a summary of their views
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A tale of two pension laws
Oscar Volder finds Japan searching for a third way between DB and DC. Success will depend on how well its institutions can work together
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Early days for DC Korean-style
It is over a year since Korea’s defined contribution pension system was introduced. Carl Redondo assesses the progress made so far
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Indexing for an inefficient market
Passive indexing has rapidly gained popularity and importance among institutional investors in the rest of the world but to a lesser extent in Asia, with good reason. Jason Hsu and Jason Chia-Shang Tuan explain a new strategy that may alter this
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Benchmarking for tomorrow's models
Paul Hoff looks at how index providers are responding to the needs of investors for ready access to new markets
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Special Report
Best practice in Malaysia
Tan Lye Huat highlights the progress being made in applying new corporate governance guidelines in Malaysia
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Treading with caution in the global market
Richard Newell talks to the management of New Zealand’s investment fund about the challenges of being a global investor
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Special Report
How to avoid future minefields
The row over pension funds investing in companies that manufacture cluster bombs and landmines could perhaps have been avoided if the funds had used a new portfolio screening service. David White reports
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Smart solutions for the self-employed
The pension needs of the self-employed in Holland have been overlooked in the past, particularly their ability and willingness to bear risk. Alwin Oerlemans and Jeroen Tielman report on some of the solutions proposed at the recent PensionSummit
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Philips - outsourced but not out of touch
How does a pension fund stay in touch with its assets once it has outsourced their entire management to a third party? Rob Schreur and Ernst Hagen report on how the Philips pension fund supervises and monitors a wide range of portfolios
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CS sets sights on Dutch market
The complex needs of the Dutch pension funds have created a market for a new level of involvement by asset managers, notably fiduciary management. Steve Hays reports on the thinking behind Credit Suisse’s move into this market
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Cordares eyes Italian pensions
Dutch pensions provider and asset manager Cordares is preparing to move into the market for second pillar pensions in Italy. Cordares chairman Joep Schouten tells Leen Preesman where he thinks the opportunities lie
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Special Report
Factoring in fears of image risk
The cluster bomb controversy has transformed Dutch pension funds from paragons of virtue to robotic monsters without a conscience. Peter Kraneveld suggests how they can avoid such ‘image risk’in the future
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Belgium baits the hook for Dutch pensions
Is the new pensions vehicle that Belgium has designed to encourage European pension schemes to domicile within its borders likely to attract Dutch pension funds? Carolyn Bandel finds out
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Smooth progress for UCITs programme
As investors are faced with an increasingly pan-European market for pensions investment, UCITS III aims to make cross-border co-operation between funds simpler. Jeremy Woolfe reports
