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NewsThe IORP Directive: Voting with their feet
Ten years on, it is heartening to finally see some traction in cross-border pensions.
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NewsLike father, like son: The challenge of measuring longevity
Jim Robinson wonders whether we'll ever get longevity right.
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NewsESG investing: From small acorns do mighty oaks grow?
Benjie Fraser asks whether SRI might lead to consolidation among pension funds.
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NewsDon't blame theory for the credit crunch
The 300 Club has got it wrong on the efficient market hypothesis, says Patrick Rudden.
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NewsThe Dutch Pensions Agreement: Who needs it?
Theo Kocken wonders whether the Netherlands might actually be better off without a pensions deal.
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NewsThe difficulty of building an efficient pensions system
Sometimes it takes a downturn to tackle inefficiencies that go unnoticed when times are good.
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Opinion Pieces
EC backing for VC
Radical changes in opportunities to invest in venture capital (VC) are emerging via the EU, including in Brussels, where the European Parliament is now vetting a draft Regulation on European Venture Capital Funds. The package aims to make it easier for VC funds to raise capital from across the EU.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: RI talk wastes time
The time and money spent on long-term, responsible investing has not been very productive. Don’t get me wrong – we’ve made important progress and our common-sense approach to change was the right (only?) place to start. But if we can learn from experience, we could be making much deeper, faster progress.
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Opinion Pieces
Jeroen Wilbrink & Jelle Beenen
In the Guest Viewpoint column of IPE March 2012, Kees Cools and Anton van Nunen claimed that the current calculation used in assessing the health of a pension scheme is incorrect. They also claimed it had forced pension schemes to sell ‘cheap’ equities in favour of ‘expensive’ sovereign bonds, and that this selling has depressed prices of equities.
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Opinion Pieces
Politics of change
The nomination of Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate to the White House may bring a lot of attention to the US pension fund industry. If he wins the election on 6 November, he could introduce a partial privatisation of Social Security, the compulsory insurance programme funded through payroll taxes. The first president to talk about privatising it was also a Republican one, George W Bush, but his proposal went nowhere.
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Are fiduciary consultants neglecting their duty on hedge funds?
The fiduciary model for hedge funds is not unlike a customised fund-of-funds mandate.
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NewsOTC derivatives and the law of unintended consequences
The more Brussels tries to reduce risk, the more it seems to grow, says Cecile Sourbes.
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NewsIreland's Social Welfare and Pensions Bill: A bridge too far?
'Incentivising' local pension funds to invest in sovereign bonds might not be the best idea.
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NewsCharities should take note of Royal Mail pensions precedent
Many may find themselves in very similar circumstances, says Spence & Partners.
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IPA: How long will Beijing's reformist reawakening last?
Has the Communist Party rediscovered radical change? Don’t get your hopes up just yet.
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NewsMartin Steward: Is equity really a 'stranded asset'?
Why it is more important to diversify savers' time horizons than to lengthen them.
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NewsTrustees: Where will the next generation come from?
The Australians have put their minds to a problem that will affect the pensions industry worldwide.
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NewsPensionsfonds, 10 years on
Germany's investment set-up is as infuriatingly complex to outsiders as the country's fiscal system.
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NewsESG idealism: The market is right to be suspicious
Osmosis's Gerrit Heyns wonders whether principles are needed to make responsible investments.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Climate a major beta risk
Last week in Istanbul, I heard the International Energy Authority’s chief economist say the world’s on track for six degrees warming by 2100. This “catastrophe for all of us” is the mother of all preventable surprises.
