Pensions
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...
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
Developments in Dutch pooling
02 Apr 2013
Recent bilateral agreements and regulatory developments are making the Netherlands more attractive as a jurisdiction for asset pooling, according to Wilfried Mulder and Mischa Muntinga
A tale of two jurisdictions
02 Apr 2013
Expatriate pensions are still an offshore game, and Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are vying for supremacy, writes Gail Moss
Noise and signal
02 Apr 2013
Con Keating places the DWP’s plans for discount rate smoothing his sights
Regulating Europe
01 Mar 2013
Gail Moss reviews pension regulation and law changes under discussion in seven European countries
The middle way
01 Feb 2013
Gail Moss outlines how public sector pension entities can get the best out of the procurement process
Can they fix it?
02 Jan 2013
Stephen Bouvier sets out the problems facing the IFRIC interpretation committee on the treatment of single-A corporate bonds in discounting pension liabilities
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