All IPE articles in September 2015 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Country Report
Derisking: Unintended risks
Carlo Svaluto Moreolo asks whether UK trustees are taking the right approach to interest rate and inflation risk
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Special Report
France: Supplementary pension scheme facing depletion
The deficit of the Agirc-Arrco complementary pension system is exacerbated by France’s poor employment situation
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Asset Class Reports
Mexican peso: No good deed goes unpunished
The Mexican peso has suffered as investors have sold the formerly favoured currency following concerns about China and the global community slump
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Features
Interview: The view from Copenhagen
Rachel Fixsen spoke to Carsten Stendevad about his vision for Denmark’s labour market pension fund, ATP, and his first two years as CEO
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Special Report
Germany: Sector funds still controversial
Well over a decade after the introduction of Pensionsfonds and the Riester-Pension, Germany is weighing up significant change to boost coverage
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Features
Defined Contribution: Going the distance
In Australia and the US, best practice in the DC sector is to ensure participants have sufficient income throughout retirement, writes Christopher O’Dea
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Country Report
Defined Contribution: An innovation conundrum
The end to compulsory annuitisation poses questions. When and how will Britons save, invest and draw down their DC savings?
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Features
Focus Group: Contribution to the future
Two-thirds of the funds polled for this month’s Focus Group said defined contribution (DC) represents the future for pension provision
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Country Report
Pensions in The Netherlands: A continuing soap opera
Now that attempts to radically overhaul the Dutch pension system have floundered owing to legal problems, union opposition and politics, efforts to future-proof the second pension pillar have favoured evolution over revolution
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Country Report
Ultimate Forward Rate: Ultimate consideration
Formerly just an esoteric formula buried in Solvency II legislation, the DNB’s recent reduction in the ultimate forward rate will affect the viability of Dutch defined benefit pension schemes
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Country Report
Commentary: Returning market sense to UFR
The new UFR is an uneasy compromise that requires sophisticated decision-making on the part of pension funds, argues Jens van Egmond
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Learning from coal
Last month the chief executive of Norges Bank Investment Management, Yngve Slyngstad, offered an implicit admission of error
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Features
China’s importance still underplayed
The turmoil in China is both less serious and more serious than generally assumed.
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Special Report
Denmark: A change of direction
Preparing for the introduction of Solvency II in 2016 and proposals expected to broaden pension participation are top priorities for the new government
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Special Report
Switzerland: Huge challenge to pass pension reform package
The final draft of the first and second-pillar reform package has been published but it could prove impossible to get through parliament in its present form
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Features
Reviving the Celtic tiger
The biggest challenge facing Eugene O’Callaghan, director of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, is how to avoid pricing himself out of a recovering Irish market
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Features
Research: Caution on the equity risk premium
In this second article in a series on a new study, Nick Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that artificially low interest rates have dragged the predictive power of the equity risk premium to near zero
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Asset Class Reports
Outlook: The case for EM debt
Opinions vary on the long-term prospects for emerging market debt
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Terra Firma Capital Partners
“The private equity industry is in the midst of a far-reaching structural change that is leading to a bifurcation of the industry,” says Guy Hands, chairman and chief investment officer of Terra Firma
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Country Report
Calpam Pensioenfonds: Proud independence
One thing is certain for the Calpam Pensioenfonds (CPF): it wants to remain independent for as long as possible
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