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Opinion Pieces
Peter Kraneveld: Adviser to APG: Is it time to change?”
“In the US, no one doubts public pension funds are a class apart. The distinction is rarely made in Europe.
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Consensus elusive
The US retirement system might change dramatically by year’s end; or pension reform could be postponed again until after the 2012 presidential election. Either way, the debate about how to prevent the bankruptcy of social security is hotter than ever.
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Thoughtful ownership
Investment managers too often have very little understanding of the businesses in which they are investing, delegates were told at a meeting in Brussels during the launch of a new study on stewardship.
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Peter Kraneveld on the 'Tobin tax': The problem of economists (or lack thereof)
Pensions industry veteran questions wisdom behind the ‘financial transaction tax’.
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NewsDon't stop believing: The benefits of the unfunded DB model
Con Keating, head of research at Brighton Rock, makes the case for the insured, unfunded DB scheme.
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NewsOperation Twist and its effect on DB pension schemes
SSgA's Ben Clissold looks at the impact of the US Federal Reserve's latest manoeuvre.
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NewsThe woeful state of DC governance
Spence & Partners on how governance is more honoured in the breach than the observance.
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NewsOn the Record: ATP, KBC and VBV on emerging markets
ATP, KBC Pensioenfonds and VBV Pensionskasse reveal how they approach emerging markets.
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: EFAMA's Peter de Proft
"Nobody knows what will be the impact of all these new rules."
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NewsMartin Steward: Mayhem on Wall Street – and Main Street
As kids ran riot across England, traders nursed a one-month stock market loss of 15%.
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NewsLiam Kennedy: Break some policy eggs
After years of poor occupational pensions policy, the UK is finally doing something.
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Peter de Proft, Director general of the European Fund and Asset Management Association
“Nobody knows what will be the impact of all these new rules”
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Plenty on the horizon
Even without fears of a double-dip recession, the wake of the 2008 crisis is keeping European Commission financial law drafters working hard at the legislative coalface. And that was before European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, warned, early in August, that the sovereign debt crisis was spreading beyond the periphery ...
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Bonds defy downgrade
US pension funds are reassessing their fixed income investment policies after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the US rating from AAA, despite the fact that the new AA+ rating did not force them immediately to sell Treasury bonds.
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NewsDeceptive complexity: How pension funds use small print to get their way
Shayla Walmsley on how pension funds can use small print to skew deals their way.
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NewsAuto-enrolment as a 'stealth tax'
The UK's auto-enrolment reforms could fail before launch if media confusion continues.
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NewsPassive, active and other odious comparisons
Partisans of 'passive' or 'active' strategies could learn a thing or two from tennis.
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NewsDamian Handzy on 'stress testing' the US
A curious thing happened last week. Money managers started asking for 'stress tests' on the US.
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FairPensions: Trustees must accept new fiduciary duties
The complaint that trustees must act as ‘moral policemen’ misses the point, says Christine Berry.
