All Special Report articles – Page 69
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Silver: Corporate Pension Fund 2015 - Santander UK Group Pension Scheme Common Fund
Judge’s comment: “A well-rounded submission that ticks a lot of boxes, with lots of innovation and detail. Santander focuses on developing a reputation for attracting good investment.”
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Special ReportSilver: Public Pension Fund 2015 - The Church Commissioners
Judge’s comment: “An excellent entry highlighting excellence, innovation, diversification and commitment, while its excellent long-term record also deserves a mention.”
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Special ReportSilver: Industry-Wide Pension Fund 2015 - Pension Protection Fund
Judge’s comment: “Continues to impress with its funding strategy and investment model. Expansion of the portfolio to include hybrids should help it maintain its risk-adjusted return objectives.”
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Special ReportSilver: Small Pension Fund 2015 - Frjalsi Pension Fund
Judge’s comment: “Displaying innovation and forward thinking, the opportunities taken have resulted in strong returns, carefully managed risk and a happy clientele.”
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Special ReportSilver: Sovereign Reserve Fund 2015 - FRR and NLB Penziski Fond
Judge’s comment: “These two funds may be poles apart in terms of size and remit, but both make excellent use of the respective resources at their disposal.”
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Special ReportSilver: Active Management 2015 - PenSam
Judge’s comment: “An impressive, well-considered approach and response to a changed environment that is not reliant on consultants.”
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Special ReportGold: Long-Term Strategy 2015 - Trafalgar House Pension Trust
Judge’s comment: “A strong focus on liabilities, a dynamic investment process and impressively high returns, given its low risk budget.”
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Special ReportGold: Outstanding Industry Contribution 2015 - Theo Kocken, Cardano
Judge’s comment: “A truly innovative approach to communication and an enrichment to the industry. One of the strongest contributors to the pensions sector with his depth, profile and innovation over the years.”
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COP21 and Investors: What will Paris deliver?
One month away from the Paris climate change talks, Jonathan Williams asks how likely are investors to be faced with a repeat of the failed summit in Copenhagen.
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COP21 Viewpoints
Do investors have the ability to tackle climate change? Stephanie Pfeifer from the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, Julian Poulter from the Asset Owners’ Disclosure Project and Raj Thamotheram and John Rogers discuss what investors have already done, the challenges facing them in 2016 and how they can flex their fiduciary muscles
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Special ReportGold: Pension Fund Achievement of the Year - Helen Kobæk, PenSam
Judge’s comment: “This is what I call an achievement. It shows the CEO’s willingness to look beyond her fiduciary duty. The sense of social responsibility PenSam has assumed should serve as a role model for the industry.”
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Debate: Is a world currency war ahead?
Yes, says Michael Howell, managing director of CrossBorder Capital As the world gets bigger it seems to become ever more volatile. So its financial markets ride an endemic eight or nine rollercoaster with dizzying, white-knuckle peaks occurring in 1972, 1981, 1989, 1998, 2007-08 and now maybe in 2015 too. ...
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A-shares: The best is yet to come
China is a compelling story for investors despite the recent market volatility, argues Charles Salvador. But he warns against short-term thinking and half-hearted approaches
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Financial Markets: China’s Big Bang
Timothy Van Housen and Joseph Mariathasan predict a radical liberalisation of financial markets and related regulations, with unprecedented investment opportunities
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Bond bonanza beckons
China’s continuing reforms to open up its fast-growing bond market to foreign investors could make it the largest market yet for global investors, writes Tsering Namgyal
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Special ReportGold: Best European Pension Fund - British Steel Pension Fund
Judge’s comment: “How British Steel manages to improve from year to year is baffling and beyond me. But it does and this is a seriously impressive organisation. With its pioneering LDI and notable cost controls framework, this is the scheme others should follow. A clear winner this year.”
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Special ReportBronze: Fixed Income - Bosch Pensionsfonds
Judge’s comment: “Innovative fixed income strategy given the fund’s objectives and the market it operates in, with a good level of diversification.”
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Financial Markets: Europe still courting China
European financial centres are still keen to court China despite the country’s economic slowdown and recent market meltdown. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Special Report: Currency - A dangerously underrated risk
Anthony Harrington finds that investors can easily overlook the foreign exchange risk that comes with investing outside of their own currency area
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Special ReportDC/Hybrid Strategy - NEST
Judge’s comment: “NEST remains at the forefront of the defined contribution market in Europe with its innovative strategies and, predominantly, its risk approach.”
