All IPE articles in September 2013 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Throwing light on the shadows
Joseph Mariathasan looks at the little-understood world of Chinese SME non-bank financing, which is fast on its way to becoming one of the world’s most important debt markets
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Country Report
UK: The DC information gap
The growing significance of defined contribution pensions means trustees should be prepared to serve members with better information on retirement income options, writes Ros Altman
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Special Report
Securities Services:Taking ‘solutions’ into custody
With regulators questioning the delegation and concentration of powers under fiduciary management and implemented consulting models, Iain Morse finds custodians sensing a business opportunity
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Special Report
Securities Services: Global custodians go local
New regulation is changing the relationship between custodians and depositories – but will this tilt the market in favour of global or local institutions? Iain Morse investigates
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Opinion PiecesRetirement on course
Five years after the Lehman collapse, Americans’ retirement savings look like they have overcome the shock and are growing steadily. In fact they’ve reached the record amount of $20.8trn (€15.7trn) according to the latest data published by the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the national association of US investment companies.
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Country Report
UK: Divorce can be costly
Ian Fraser finds that Scottish independence would create a host of complications for newly created cross-border pension funds. But neither the London nor Edinburgh governments seem willing to engage with the issues
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: The great correlation
Emerging market debt has been driven by Fed policy more than fundamentals
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Asset Class Reports
Emerging Market Debt: Corporate issues
How will emerging market corporate debt fare through the first real challenge since it became a genuinely mainstream asset class? Federico Carballo and Florence Duculot offer their prognosis
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Special Report
Securities Services: Defining custody’s contribution
As DC builds assets, trust-based structures come into their own and cost-saving aggregation opportunities abound. Iain Morse finds custodians well-positioned to put them into action
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Country Report
UK: Filling the contract-based governance vacuum
Phil Duly surveys the issues surrounding DC pension governance
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Features
Reform saga continues
The long and winding tale of Dutch pension reform entered a new chapter in July, when the council of ministers signed off on a consultation document outlining changes to Dutch pension legislation, in particular the financial assessment framework (FTK).
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Country Report
The Netherlands: A complex improvement
Pension experts think that the new Dutch pension governance legislation is complicated. But on balance they agree that it will significantly improve the representation of all stakeholders, according to Leen Preesman
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Features
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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Opinion Pieces
Securities Services: Viewpoint: Upcoming changes in the CSD landscape
Placed at the ‘top tier’ of the securities holding chain, central securities depositories (CSDs) provide market participants with a central point for depositing all kinds of financial instruments, and they have not escaped the ambitious reform agenda of policy makers.
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Features
Webb’s policy challenges
The achievement may seem modest, but September 2013 marks 40 months since Steve Webb became pensions minister, a junior post within the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, but one with far-reaching influence over the design, structure and, by extension, asset allocation of occupational pensions in UK.
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Features
Conceptually challenged?
Back in April, the International Accounting Standards Board was debating the content of its discussion paper on the International Financial Reporting Standards conceptual framework.
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Opinion Pieces
Paul Schott Stevens, president and CEO, Investment Company Institute
“Global funds have more work to do as part of this retirement savings evolution”
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Features
Buyout now while stocks last
Pension longevity transfer, whether through full insurance buyouts, bulk annuities or longevity swaps, is still largely a UK business.
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Features
Buyout market in flux, but outlook rosy
Over the summer, the UK de-risking market has seen significant deal activity, as well as a number of important changes. Lucida, closed to new business since late 2012, was sold to rival Legal & General, while Goldman Sachs announced its intention to sell Rothesay Life, which itself acquired Paternoster less ...
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Country Report
UK: Buy now – spread the premium
David Barker reviews deferred premium buyouts, a development in the insurance market that allows employers to spread the cost of a buyout
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