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Opinion Pieces
ESG 2.0 – let’s get serious
The responsible investment community has done something very important. It has raised awareness that institutional investors who define their job as beating the peer group benchmark are being irresponsible – stewardship responsibilities for the long term are now on the agenda. But the current trading-oriented model of investment is impossible to align with these responsibilities.
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Opinion PiecesElizabeth Corley: “Drawing on behavioural science, we should be thinking more holistically about income lifecycles”
For everyone managing pension funds, or their investments, or indeed managing our own retirement planning, one of the greatest challenges is to maintain a focus on achieving long-term strategic goals amid the constant buffeting of contradictory news and the distraction of more pressing concerns.
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Features
Adding the best of DB to DC plans
In the final article in the current series, Nicholas Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that despite the demise of DB plans, the baby is unlikely to be thrown away with the bath water
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Opinion Pieces
A Lithuanian bottleneck
Yet another Brussels go-slow on IORP II legislative revisions? Yes, but it’s not just rules for occupational pensions. A let’s-put-off-until-tomorrow syndrome is hammering swathes of financial legislation and the Brussels machine is now close to deadlock.
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Opinion Pieces
Activist stances
US public pension funds are slowly recovering from their worst years, 2008-09, when their assets fell to a low of $2.1trn (€1.6trn). In the latest fiscal year ending 30 June 2013, assets increased 8.4%
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Opinion Pieces
Per Linnemann - Independent consulting actuary
“Smoothed income annuities could revive the pension fund industry”
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Opinion PiecesThe assets of healthcare
A trend that has already taken place in pensions is now happening in the healthcare sector in the US
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News
UN Principles for Responsible Investment: Commitment required
Gerrit Heyns, member of the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment, says his fellow members must do more on the issue of disclosure.
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News
Buyout market in flux, but outlook rosy
Is market consolidation or overseas interest in de-risking bigger threat to UK deals?
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Opinion Pieces
PE’s planetary alignment
‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus’ describes gender differences in cognition. Having attended three major private equity events – PEI Responsible Investment Forum (for ESG-friendly PE), Coller Institute Private Equity 2013 Symposium (for mainstream PE) and PEI Operating Partners Forum 2013 (for portfolio companies) – we propose transposing ...
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Opinion Pieces
Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO, Investment Company Institute
“Global funds have more work to do as part of this retirement savings evolution”
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Opinion PiecesIORP governance
Suggestions to make the basis for a systematic set of codified rules to cover the governance of occupational pension schemes across the entire EU have emerged from a working group of pension stakeholders.
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Opinion PiecesRetirement on course
Five years after the Lehman collapse, Americans’ retirement savings look like they have overcome the shock and are growing steadily. In fact they’ve reached the record amount of $20.8trn (€15.7trn) according to the latest data published by the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the national association of US investment companies.
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Opinion Pieces
Securities Services: Viewpoint: Upcoming changes in the CSD landscape
Placed at the ‘top tier’ of the securities holding chain, central securities depositories (CSDs) provide market participants with a central point for depositing all kinds of financial instruments, and they have not escaped the ambitious reform agenda of policy makers.
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News
Emerging markets: Still more good news than bad
Less robust growth isn’t welcomed, but investors shouldn’t get ahead of themselves.
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NewsFTSE 100 pensions: Plus ça change …
LCP's Nick Bunch examines the changing trends over the last 20 years for FTSE 100 DB pensions.
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NewsThe Bank of England's 'forward guidance' policy
BlackRock explores what 'forward guidance' will mean for UK pension funds.
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News
The US pensions cliff
Harry Smorenberg and Pieter Kiveron outline the options for ‘honest and open’ solutions.
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News
Letter from Brussels: The pensioners' point of view
Pensioners at a recent ‘symposium’ on pensions leave sated but none the wiser.
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Opinion Pieces
Whose risk counts?
Paul Woolley – a successful academic economist, regulator and fund manager – gave sustainability investors a direct challenge at the recent Responsible Investor conference.
