Asset Allocation – Page 120
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FeaturesFunds risk selling themselves short
As important sources of stocklending, pension funds are under pressure to ensure they are not enabling damaging short selling. David White reports
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FeaturesRipe for fiduciary management growth?
With trustees facing an increasingly complex task in today’s tougher environment will fiduciary management take off in the UK as it has in Holland? David White reports
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FeaturesFeeling comfortable with shorts
In 2003 the two biggest Dutch pension funds pulled out of stocklending because they feared that short selling was contributing to market instability. Five years on, some are suggesting that European pension funds should do likewise
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FeaturesBuy-out market shows dramatic surge
New players have entered a market of over €3bn in the past couple of years, finds Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesImplementing personal accounts
Liam Kennedy spoke to Paul Myners, chairman of PADA, about default options, charges and implementing best practice for the new personal accounts system
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FeaturesA bubble in the making?
Commodity prices have risen dramatically as institutional investors seek security and diversification. Joseph Mariathasan questions the rationale for investing in commodities now
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FeaturesWhich index?
Iain Morse takes a look at the index choices available to investors taking a passive approach to commodities
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Launching a $450m pilot
CalPERS has included direct investments in commodities in its new programme. Gail Moss examines how and why
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Moving from passive to active
Pension funds are looking to commodities to generate alpha returns, finds Lynn Strongin Dodds
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The risk sharing revolution
Risk sharing pension schemes offer the ability for employers to control their pension costs while providing a better deal for members than defined contribution arrangements. But have too many corporate fingers been burnt by the cost and liabilities involved in offering defined benefit plans? Ian Farr asks whether compnaies can ...
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EIAMS casts its net wider in 2008
The eighth European institutional asset management survey reveals that real estate is the alternative of choice and that equities are increasingly popular. Fennell Betson and Tony Pryce outline the key findings
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FeaturesAssessing 130/30 strategies
IPE asked three pension services – in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK – the same question: ‘What is your approach to 130/30 strategies?’ Here are their answers:
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Special ReportSqueezing the life out of DB pensions
Are tightening pension funding regulations throttling Europe’s defined benefit (DB)pension plans? Is a threat to extend Solvency II to pension funds the final nail in their coffin? IPE readers give their verdict.
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FeaturesMixed messages at a time of crisis
While the asset management industry is opening to foreign investors and independence is increasingly valued, the general outlook is still conservative, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Tackling the technicalities
After years of neglect Poland’s new government now needs to push on with the reforms to its pension system which it began in 1999
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FeaturesReviewing the Rendezvous
France’s review of its 2003 pension reform is underway. George Coats looks at the story so far
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Special ReportWorking in an unwelcoming environment
Although the pension consulting market is still very small, competition is fierce, Charles Neilan finds
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Assessing the key factors
Michael Atzwanger explains the current issues affecting the Italian pension fund industry
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End of the line for quants?
After facing pressure during the 2007 sub-prime crisis, David White reports on the future for the quantative approach to investing
