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NewsDon't let the ugly duckling become a Black Swan
F&C's Jeroen Wilbrink warns pension funds not to be bedazzled by the 'beauty' of ALM.
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NewsThe Trojan horse of pension tax reform
Can the Dutch pension system survive the government's second 'Trojan horse' of tax reform?
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NewsBlackRock on understanding 'alternative' forms of beta
Strategist Timothy Parsons weighs pros and cons of minimum volatility and 'fundamental' indices.
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NewsPensions discounts: Rounding up the usual suspects
Brighton Rock's Con Keating defends the UK government's take on the correct discount rate for public sector pension schemes.
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Opinion Pieces
Making DC kings
Fidelity is still the king of the US retirement market, at number one among the defined contribution (DC) plans with over $940bn (€651bn) of assets in custody as record keeper at the end of 2010, 12% more than the year before. And there is not a traditional bank among the ...
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Opinion Pieces
Martijn Tans, Director, Aegon Global Pensions
“Most plans have actively addressed the issue of equity and interest rate risk. Those plans should now include longevity risk in their deliberations”
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Opinion Pieces
Defusing Short-Termism
The European Commission’s (EC) new green paper, ‘The EU Corporate Governance Framework’, clearly aims to encourage company owners to take a more active role in influencing management.
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Opinion Pieces
Battle to stave off crisis
Andrew Cuomo is one of the most admired recently-elected state governors – primarily for his efforts to get the budget under control and bring taxes down.
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NewsShareholders under the magnifying glass
The era of the 'absentee landlord' shareholder is over, says Hermes' Jennifer Walmsley.
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Putting the 'fiduciary' in fiduciary management
FairPensions’s Christine Berry examines what the term ‘fiduciary’ means in our current world.
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Book ReviewBooks: Feeding trustees to the wolves
Chris Walker reviews 'Alternative Assets – Investments for a Post-Crisis World'.
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NewsShifting the pension burden: No strain, no gain?
Axa IM analyst Sander Zboray suggests ways of managing DB expectations in a DC world.
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NewsDB pensions: A litany of errors and misunderstandings
Brighton Rock's Con Keating responds to a 'litany' of misunderstandings and errors on DB penions.
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NewsThe ECB rate hike that did not shake the world
A long-expected, long-feared interest rate increase has left schemes underwhelmed.
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NewsA '60s revival in the Dutch pension market
Upstart PPIs are set to challenge traditional Dutch DC providers, says Tim Burggraaf.
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NewsThe Green Paper: Paved with good intentions
The European Commission says feedback has been largely positive. How exactly did that happen?
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NewsLongevity risk, rewarded and unrewarded
What are the differences between rewarded and unrewarded risks? Martin Steward explains.
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NewsThe Fifth Analyst Call
US companies are failing to speak with investors on governance. F&C's Karina Litvack has a solution.
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Opinion Pieces
Bernhard Wiesner - Senior vice president for corporate pensions, Bosch Group
“Europe is entering a period of time of both opportunities and risks that will place the second pillar on a knife’s edge”
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Opinion Pieces
Meet Ms Active Ageing
Pension funds will observe with interest the European Commission’s announcement goal of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. This is to add two years to the average EU healthy lifespan by 2020. However, achieving healthy, longer lives is not quite as straightforward as it seems.
