Briefing
Keeping hold of deferred members
03 Jun 2013
Pension funds need a robust strategy to keep track of deferred members and to communicate with them in the right way. Gail Moss reports
Confusion reigns supreme
03 Jun 2013
The Cypriot bailout may have only been a drop in the ocean compared with the Greek rescue package. But, as Jonathan Williams finds, lack of detail is a major headache for the local provident funds...
Fallout from Ruslan and Cyprisia
03 Jun 2013
Iain Morse assesses the consequences of the Cyprus bailout for the banking and wider financial services industries
The coup de grace
03 Jun 2013
Roxane McMeeken met with John Kyriakopoulos, the man whose huge bet on Greek bonds paid off dramatically for the country’s largest pension institutionFor a man who says he has just been sacked, John...
Rock ‘n’ roll yield
03 Jun 2013
Music publishing rights are a proven inflation-sensitive cash-flow asset, and Martin Steward finds that fast-changing music consumption habits are generating not threats, but opportunities
Caution in the face of opportunity
03 Jun 2013
Despite the growing clamour for funding, pension funds remain cautious about investing in infrastructure. Michael Wilkins analyses some of the barriers holding back potential investors
Unlocking alpha
03 Jun 2013
New statistical techniques and the computing power to put them to work is opening a space for effective factor modelling of hedge funds, writes Robert J Frey
Quest for the ‘golden’ discount rate
01 May 2013
We cannot foresee the long-term future, however much we would like to think we can, argues Alf GohdesAn outsider considering the discussion on the appropriate discount rate for discounting future...
A few words of advice…
01 May 2013
As the International Accounting Standards Board and the International Financial Reporting Standards Interpretations Committee continue to deliberate the discount-rate objective in IAS 19, Stephen...
Leave nothing to chance
01 May 2013
The advent of auto-enrolment in the UK has heightened focus on the need for robust risk management systems for DC plans. Gail Moss looks at a range of approaches
Taking risk budgeting a step further
01 May 2013
An analytical framework at the fund selection stage can help spare DC fund participants the pitfalls of a more advanced approach to diversification, writes Thierry Roncalli
Russian pensions are booming
01 May 2013
Reform of Russia’s supplementary pension system is having a strong and positive impact, while further regulatory changes are on the cards for 2013, writes Alexander Lorenz
Stuck in the middle
01 May 2013
The mezzanine-debt opportunity has not gone away. But Martin Steward finds that success will probably depend on both greater focus and flexibility
Choosing the middle way
01 May 2013
René Biner offers a 21-year data set that reveals surprising facts about historical loss rates in European mezzanine debt – and the advantages of vintage-year diversification
Once upon a time in the East
01 May 2013
It may not quite be cowboy capitalism, but a showdown is due in China, writes Gary Greenberg
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