All Special Report articles – Page 86
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Real Assets: Price to earnings
Helen Fowler looks at how an equity portfolio could be optimsed for inflation sensitivity
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Real Assets: Understanding inflation shocks
Kurt Winkelmann and Raghu Suryanarayanan model asset returns under inflation shocks as a first step to designing genuinely inflation-sensitive portfolios – itself the first step towards broader macro-sensitive portfolios
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Real Assets: No real growth
In the aftermath of QE, inflation-plus multi-asset funds seemed like an idea whose time had come. Charlotte Moore asks why they failed to catch on
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Are loyalty shares a game-changer?
Nina Roehrbein asked Mirjam Staub-Bisang about sustainable investment in Switzerland
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Transparency under the spotlight
The mandatory reporting regime of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment has caused controversy. But advocates say it will shine a light on ESG integration. Mark Nicholls reports
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Securities Services: KAS Bank: ‘We call it custody 2.0’
Over recent years custody has changed drastically from simple safekeeping to high-tech data management, says Albert Röell, CEO of KAS Bank, and custodians sit, like spiders, at the center of a web of data trade and position data.
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: The thrifty thousands
Roger Urwin, global head of investment content at Towers Watson, noted earlier this year that the world’s leading investors are upping their internal resources and adopting the organisational characteristics of asset managers. Urwin’s focus was on what he calls the ‘Thrifty Fifty’ largest institutional asset pools. Our reference to ‘Thrifty Thousands’ on the cover of this year’s Top 1000 supplement owes a debt to Urwin’s coinage.
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Improvement, not punishment?
Michel Barnier appeared to make a major concession when he announced a delay in the implementation of solvency requirements in the revised IORP Directive last May. But the result has arguably not been greater clarity. Cécile Sourbès outlines a number of scenarios for the future of the Directive
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Information overload
The amendment to the law governing Austrian Pensionskassen needed to be amended before it was even implemented. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Discouragement for early retirement
The government has held the official retirement age at 65, while introducing measures to progressively raise the minimum early retirement age, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Tax reforms and Solvency II on the agenda
Some pension funds defy a 2% cap on dividend payments agreed in the government-industry pact while the regulator continues to update and tighten the rules, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Final phase of reform aims to take account of all risks
Finland’s financial regulator wants risks faced by pension providers to be assessed using the same principles as in the rest of the financial industry, according to Rachel Fixsen
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Pressure for deeper and more thorough reforms
The government is working on new measures to overcome the growing pension deficit, which is expected to swell to €20bn by 2020, writes Cécile Sourbes
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Progress on pooling through AIFMD implementation
Jonathan Williams notes the advent of the Investment-KG pooling vehicle but few policies to support occupational pensions ahead of September’s federal election
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Reform on the cards under new government
Pension fund members will no longer be able to draw assets from their accounts from 2014, but capital controls remain in place. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Heart of the matter
The latest law change focuses on reorganising Ireland’s regulatory structures, instead of delivering the promised amendments to the wind-up order, writes Jonathan Williams
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Focus on the second pillar
The focus of the pension fund industry is now on second-pillar reform, which is set to open up the investment universe for pension funds, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: A two-way street
The cabinet’s endorsement of FTK2 means important decisions for Dutch pension funds and social partners, according to Nina Röhrbein, with risk shifting to members
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Hybrid approach at centre of new regime for 2014
Norway’s Banking Law Commission is proposing to replace the present defined-benefit schemes with a hybrid system. Rachel Fixsen reports
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Urgent public pension reforms needed
To meet EU and IMF demands to cut its public debt, Portugal is proposing to raise the pension age and cut benefits across the board, says Cécile Sourbes
