Pension Funds – Page 18
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National benefit calculation
When they came under criticism, Canada’s top 10 pension funds hired blue-chip consultants to find out what they contributed to the national economy, Christopher O’Dea writes
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Double bottom line
Eugene O’Callaghan, investment director of the National Pensions Reserve Fund, tells Liam Kennedy about the business plan for the new Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and progress so far in transitioning the portfolio into one with a dual mandate for returns and economic impact
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Talking about risk
The UK Financial Reporting Council wants business to get serious in its conversation with investors about business risk. Vijay Krishnaswamy and Jon Hatchett tell Stephen Bouvier what these changes mean
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Real ambition
Nina Röhrbein asked Benny Buchardt Andersen, CIO at PenSam, about his fund’s aim to target future purchasing power and how it will achieve this
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Castilian discipline
Nina Röhrbein asked Jaime Martinez-Gómez about the governance, risk and portfolio strategies of Fonditel, the manager of Telefonica’s Spanish pension fund
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Have you adapted your emerging markets strategy recently?
EM market turmoil is no game changer
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The age of the default fund
UK DC pensions will see a boost in members and assets as auto-enrolment kicks in over the coming years. Sally Ling looks at best practice for governance and default funds
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Bring on the lawyers
A recent legal opinion on behalf of UK local authority pension funds has ignited controversy, according to Stephen Bouvier
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Too big to fall short?
A new government has broadened the mandate of the Norwegian sovereign pension fund. Nina Röhrbein assesses the changes
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A new chapter
Martin Steward speaks to Cecila Thomasson Blomquist at PP Pension, whose DB business relies on dynamic asset allocation around a solid real estate core, and whose DC business is undergoing major changes
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Communications go digital
The pensions industry is one of the worst at understanding its customers, which is one reason why two providers have developed innovative online tools, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Do you invest in real assets?
Nina Röhrbein speaks with France’s ERAFP, Denmark’s PFA and the Netherlands’ PGGM
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Phoenix from the ashes
Antoni Canals tells Nina Roehrbein about his views on diversification at Pensions Caixa 30, one of Spain’s most diversified occupational pension funds
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UK joins the race
A new tax-transparent fund, launched this summer, puts the UK on the map for pension pooling. Gail Moss explains
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Clwyd: Cultivating the difference
Nina Roehrbein speaks with Philip Latham, pension fund manager at Clwyd Pension Fund, about its unusual asset allocation strategy
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A future for swaps?
Pension funds facing new derivative-market regulation are increasingly willing to consider alternatives to traditional swaps, according to Cécile Sourbes. But the jury is still out on interest rate swap futures
