All IPE articles in September 2007 (Magazine)
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Features
Value added is core
Value-added is a much-used term in the securities services business, but it is a definition that quickly becomes redundant as clients come to expect more from their providers. It doesn’t take long for a value-added service to become a core part of a custodian’s standard offerings. Now, custodians provide a ...
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Looking back and looking forward
After 13 years with the pensions provider and asset manager Cordares and its predecessor, the Sociaal Fonds voor de Bouw-nijverheid (SFB), departing chairman Joep Schouten looks back at a career that started on the shop floor. Leen Preesman reports
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Bringing skill to the fore
Fixed income managers in Europe are increasingly targeting areas such as derivatives, currency and emerging markets but, as Joseph Mariathasan discovers, not everyone excels at shouldering this extra responsibility
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A changed landscape
Investment consultants are adapting their models to cope with increasing demands from clients, finds Pirkko Juntunen, but they face competition from investment banks and boutiques
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Special Report
How to clean up with clean technology
Current concerns about global warming have raised investor interest in clean technology businesses and the private equity funds that invest in them. David White reports
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Features
A trustee’s flexible friend?
Andrew Campbell-Hart finds that DB insurance can be a versatile and cost-effective means of protecting sponsors and trustees from deficit risk
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'Toxic waste' in pension funds
Are American pension funds affected by the sub prime mortgage crisis? And how deeply? A definite answer may come only in a few months. In the meantime there is a lot of denial together with suspicion and fear. For sure, investment banks have been offering RMBS (Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities), CDOs ...
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Japanese outlook questionable
The Japanese economy continues to cause some concerns for institutional investors, despite signs of recovery. The recent market volatility, largely a result of the US sub-prime lending crisis, has further put pressure on a market which has failed to see a recovery of domestic spending, although there have been plenty ...
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Stakeholder revisited?
Hugo Greenhalgh canvasses opinion on the government’s proposed personal accounts and asks whether they will encourage more people to save for their retirement
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Solvency II nears maturity
International ambitions for Solvency II emerge as reforms for capital adequacy take shape, writes Jeremy Woolfe
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Features
Regulation versus self regulation
IPE asked three pension representatives – in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK – the same question: ‘Are pension benefit protection schemes a necessary evil?’ Here are their answers:
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Features
BVK leads the way on diversification
The greatest prize for a German asset manager is a mandate from BVK, not necessarily for the fees but the influence it can bring. Jan Wagner asked its chief investment officer Daniel Just how it makes this financial clout work for itself
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Features
Wrestling with supervisory serpents
Are regulations and red tape strangling Europe’s second pillar pensions? The reaction of UK legislators to pensions scandals such as Robert Maxwell’s raid on his company pension fund has been to tighten up the rules and regulations governing occupational pensions schemes. Similarly, the regulatory response to pension fund deficits in ...
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Climbing the economic league table
The decision to award Poland and Ukraine the European football championship in 2012 is likely to provide a further fillip to their already rapidly developing economies, write Audrey Villanger and Marco Parigi
