All IPE articles in September 2009 (Magazine) – Page 2
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FeaturesSweden: Green giant
Aside from concerns about the performance and costs of the AP buffer funds, the government has also outlined an ESG agenda for institutional investors, writes Robert Melia Watson
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FeaturesSwitzerland: Shifting attitudes
The regulators are under pressure to allow cuts in benefit levels as funding problems increase, reports Emma Cusworth
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FeaturesUK: A chink of light
A small compromise in the treatment of accrued rights might signal a more flexible approach to benefit indexation in the future, finds Liam Kennedy
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Special Report
Transition in transition
The BlackRock-BGI merger is just the biggest whirlpool in a transition management industry in flux. Brian Bollen examines the intersections between evolving businesses and processes
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Interviews
From silos to solutions
BlackRock has been active in fiduciary management since 2005, when it purchased the internal asset management operation of the Philips pension fund in the Netherlands and was awarded a fiduciary mandate to manage the assets.
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Interviews
From silos to solutions
The announcement in mid-June that Barclays had accepted BlackRock’s offer for its asset management arm, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) – to be recommended to shareholders in August 2009 – set the media and industry analysts off on the challenging task of trying to find the pitfalls. All mergers present difficulties, particularly when they are on this scale, but it is difficult to imagine a better fit.
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Asset Class ReportsA time to be selective
Uncertainty in sovereign markets and attractive credit spreads have seen risk concentrate in Europe’s investment grade corporate bond markets, finds Joseph Mariathasan
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Special ReportSafe and secured?
Collateral management is integral to several activities of the modern pension fund, and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy re-wrote its paradigms, finds Martin Steward
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Features
The time is right
Paul Kelly and Mitchell Cole discuss why captive reinsurance companies can be useful tools in dealing with DB pensions
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Country Report
Still a realistic option
Charlie Finch and Ken Hardman consider the future direction of the pension buyout market in the UK
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Interviews
Multiplying the multi-boutique
As a giant among asset managers describing itself as “multi-boutique”, one might expect BNY Mellon Asset Management (BNYMAM) to be scouring this consolidating industry, chequebook in hand. The recent announcement that it will buy Insight Investment Management from Lloyds Banking Group for £235m (€273m) shows that it is indeed in the market
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Features
Your money or your life
Life settlements are emerging as a viable form of exposure to the longevity asset class. Martin Steward asks if there is any place for them in a pension fund portfolio
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Special ReportIn the interim
The challenges of the past two years have led to a broadening of transition management services, and in particular growth in interim asset management, writes Lachlan French
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint
Target date: “There is ample room for added value between one size-fits-all solutions and do-it-yourself approaches to long-term investment decisions”
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Special Report
Spotlight on the guardians
Pension funds are becoming increasingly aware of the need to keep tabs on the performance and costs of their custodians as their role becomes ever more complex, writes Ian Morse
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Special Report
Top gear?
Leveraged and inverse ETFs have been causing a regulatory fuss in the US. Martin Steward unpicks the issues, and asks if these products are of any relevance to pension fund investors
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Special Report
Looking to the future
The credit crisis – and particularly problems around cash re-investment – focused the attention of beneficial owners on their securities lending programmes. Blair McPherson argues that this is an opportunity for the industry to step out of the shadows
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Features
Leading fund strategies
Nina Röhrbein outlines leading European pension funds’ investment strategies
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Features
Future foundation
Liam Kennedy discussed the investment philosophy of Germany’s VolkswagenStiftung with its CIO, Dieter Lehmann
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