All articles by Nina Röhrbein – Page 30
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Ownership rights hinder Russian pensions reform
[17:05 CET 16-12] RUSSIA - The Russian legal system is hindering the progress of the country’s pensions reforms, according to a minister from the Department for National Health Services and Social Welfare.
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Lack of client demand hinders ESG growth - consultants
[15:30 CET 02-12] GLOBAL – Investment consultants deem the lack of explicit client demand to be a barrier preventing quicker development of environmental, social and governance (ESG) services offerings, according to a survey conducted by the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif).
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Special Report
Copenhagen – will it matter?
Conclusive climate change strategies probably won’t emerge in Copenhagen but investors must start planning for them as the clever money needs to think ahead, says Nina Röhrbein
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Country Report
Spain: Social security still rules
Ninety per cent of Spanish workers do not have access to a secondary pension fund, and are reliant on the first pillar social security pension. Nina Röhrbein looks at the measures taken by the Spanish government as it seeks to readdress this imbalance
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Country Report
Portugal on the beaten path
Nina Röhrbein discusses how the prudent person approach, coupled with global financial crisis, has affected asset allocation at Portuguese pension companies
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Features
Decisions, decisions
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at pension funds’ approach to their asset allocation. The majority of respondents – 55.5% – said their pension fund was subject to asset allocation restrictions by the respective regulator or fund-specific regulations.
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Country Report
Supplementing social security
As parametric reforms, which have been gradually coming into force in Portugal since 2002, are set to reduce the first pillar state pension benefits, the government needed to bring in a system to compensate for loss of income.
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Investors seek new route for investment volatility
[15:15 CET 30-11] GLOBAL - New entrant to the indices market Thomson Reuters is in the process of developing benchmarks to help European and Asian institutional investors reduce volatility in their portfolios.
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IPE study: Good marks for consultants on asset allocation
[16:45 CET 27-11] EUROPE - Pension funds responding to an IPE survey have largely given their thumbs-up to consultants as providers of asset allocation.
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SRI is dying, claims PwC
[16:50 CET 24-11] GLOBAL – The concept of socially-responsible investment (SRI) is dying, according to Jon Williams, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, although he admits the models of negative and positive screening and engagement could remain valuable for certain types of investors.
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Pensions threatened by six-hour daily longevity increase
GLOBAL - People are gaining on average six hours per day in life expectancy, which dramatically highlights the need for pensions solutions, delegates were told at an IPE Awards Seminar keynote speech on living with longevity.
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Positive link between ESG and financial performance - Mercer
[16:55 CET 17-11] GLOBAL - More academic research has shown that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors can have a positive impact on portfolio returns.
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NewsESG integration must go beyond equities - experts
[13:00 CET 13-11] GLOBAL - Environmental, social and governance (ESG) specialists believe integrating the concept into a pension fund’s investment strategy should be applied across an entire portfolio and move beyond equities.
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NewsESG is about belief, not proof - experts
[16:30 CET 12-11] GLOBAL – Environmental and social governance- based (ESG) investments are about belief in the concept rather than proof of returns, according to Robert Rubinstein, founder and CEO of TBLI Conference and Consulting.
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate equity fundraising falls in 2009
[13:30 CET 05-11] GLOBAL - Private equity funds have raised only $150bn (€101bn) in the primary business market so far this year as the financial crisis has made investors more cautious, according to private equity placement agent Triago.
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RiskMetrics acquires KLD
[17:00 CET 04-11] GLOBAL - Risk management and corporate governance services provider RiskMetrics has announced its acquisition of KLD Research & Analytics, a provider of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and indexes for institutional investors.
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Country Report
Iceland:One year on
Iceland’s pension funds were subject to emergency currency controls as the country underwent unprecedented turmoil and de facto insolvency. Nina Röhrbein assesses the problems faced by Iceland’s pension funds as the country searches for a route to economic recovery
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Features
Cautious about alternatives
This month’s Off The Record survey looked at alternative investments.
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Special Report
Asia’s green fields of promise
Stimulus packages are helping spur green investments in Asian companies, which already have many advantages over their Western counterparts, including good access to capital and cheaper labour costs, finds Nina Röhrbein
