All Special Report articles – Page 87
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Reform full steam ahead
The government plans to boost company pension plans while further reforming state pensions, writes Cécile Sourbes
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Ongoing review plots changes with Solvency II in mind
The temporary discount rate floor is to continue until a new method of calculating the discount rate under Solvency II is ready, according to Rachel Fixsen
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: Eyes on next reform
Swiss funds are still dealing with structural reform to occupational pensions. New governance rules and the next reform are already on the horizon, says Barbara Ottawa
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Top 1000 Pension Funds: All hands on deck
The UK pension industry is changing across the board, emphasising the importance of improving regulation, governance and fees structures, Jonathan Williams reports
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ESG integration – no one size fits all
Nina Roehrbein surveys best practice among investment managers in ESG integration
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Securities Services: The indefinite article
Article 47.3 of the technical standards of EMIR is about to pose challenging questions for Europe’s custody banks. Cécile Sourbes finds out why
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Securities Services: Case study: BNY Mellon strikes out on a new path
There is one idea banks traditionally stick to: the quicker you adapt to new regulatory changes, the easier you are likely to cope with them. And if you can anticipate the changes, you might even take one step ahead of your competitors. That may have been the thinking behind BNY ...
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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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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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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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Securities Services: New rules, new threats, new opportunities
We leave the bad news for custodians until last in this month’s special report on securities services. Andrew Williams of Mercer Sentinel outlines the difference that a good transition-management process can make relative to a bad one. Then he questions which of those categories leaving it to your custodian falls ...
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Securities Services: Stuck in the shadows
Securities lending took a major hit in the 2008 crisis. For those funds that stayed the course, Cécile Sourbes finds new regulation promising more activity, but threatening to raise costs
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Securities Services: Transitional, but not trivial
Most investors now recognise the advantages of specialist transition management. But Andrew Williams warns against the easy route of deploying one’s custodian to the task
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Investment Solutions: Spiralling into control
Mariska van der Westen surveys the Dutch fiduciary management landscape. Pension funds are requiring providers to tailor their services and regaining control of the investment chain, as yesterday’s fashions fall out of favour and old models gain popularity once more
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Investment Solutions: Remedy, not a cure
Alex Koriath and Calum Brunton Smith outline trends in the £50bn UK fiduciary management market
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Investment Solutions: Delegation targets lower risk
Andrew Waring, chief executive of the UK Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about the scheme’s delegated CIO approach
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Investment Solutions: Very real problems
Complexity in regulation, heightened demand for efficient liability management, market volatility and the sheer breadth of investment opportunities have created demand for a different type of relationship between asset managers and pension funds, writes Liam Kennedy. How are they meeting this demand? And, with a new generation of ‘modular’ or ...
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Food for thought for animal welfare
The horse-meat scandal has alerted investors to the importance of animal welfare in the supply chain, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Investment Solutions: Not a smooth ride
Ian Morse asks Patrick Groenendijk, CIO of Vervoer about his views on fiduciary management in the light of his fund’s experiences with Goldman Sachs Asset Management
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With pensions in its sights
Mark Nicholls asesses the UK’s Green Investment Bank plans to target the institutional investment community, and pension funds in particular
