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NewsSystematic quantitative investment: The lesson of Texas Hold 'Em
Has the 'mathematical' style ruined the game? Or does it simply exploit reality?
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NewsInfrastructure: The road to salvation or hell?
Liam Kennedy looks at the reasons for and against infrastructure investments.
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Opinion Pieces
Wouter Pelser: CIO Mn Services
“Changes are necessary to ensure the sustainability of private equity investments and commitments by pension funds”
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Opinion Pieces
Clearer position on derivatives
Powerful forces are pushing both for and against an opt-out for pension funds from central clearing requirements in proposed legislation on market infrastructure, making it anyone’s guess as to the final result. However, the European parliamentary rapporteur’s softening of position must be reasonable grounds for hope.
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NewsWomen in pension funds: A small but talented pool
Lockwood Gibb's Sarah Dudney struggles to match Ernst & Young's top 50 women in hedge funds.
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NewsHas Solvency II knocked the EU off-kilter?
Pension industry's growing hostility to Solvency II may have knocked Commission off balance.
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NewsThe Year of Active Ageing's mysterious budget
Jeremy Woolfe applauds the 'European Year for Active Ageing', but wonders about its €5m cost.
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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.
