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News
Danish watchdog finds scant competition in DKK2.9trn pensions market
Long-awaited report makes 22 recommendations to bolster competition in pensions market
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NewsHymans: UK DB trustees offer financial advice to retiring members
This trend is likely to grow as a further 11% of trustees have plans in place to offer this service in the next 12 months
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Special ReportConsultants: Gearing up for alternative advice
Investment advisers have laid the groundwork for further growth in the alternative investment market
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Special Report
Special Report Consultants: A testing time
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is assessing whether a lack of competition among pension consultants is hurting UK pension schemes
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Consultants: Changing roles
IPE asked pension consultants across Europe and beyond how they are responding to changes in the wider pension sector. Here is a selection of their views
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Talking heads
IPE asked pension consultants across Europe for their views on how existing and new regulation is affecting their clients and how they are advising them to react
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Special Report: Consultants under scrutiny
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is carrying out a comprehensive review of the asset management industry, which reaches to the heart of investment consultants’ business models
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Special Report
Asset allocation in volatile times
Should investors rethink their strategic asset allocation in light of current volatility? Three leading investment consultants tell IPE how they are advising their clients to react to the changing environment
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Room for smaller players in UK's 'oligopolistic' pension consulting market
Martin Steward finds that the age of true dominance of the UK’s ‘big three’ consultants may have passed, creating opportunity for smaller providers
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Consultants: Talking heads
IPE asks pension consultants and fiduciary managers for their thoughts on regulation of investment advice for institutions
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Special Report
Consultants and pension funds: When disagreements arise
Legal disputes between pension funds and their advisers are surprisingly rare – but, as Sally Ling discovers, this does not mean disagreements never arise
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Europe’s Pension Consultants: Are fees wasted?
After a recent academic paper raised serious questions about consultants’ competence in manager selection, Gail Moss talks to the industry about the nuances of the research and the defence of their practices
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Europe’s Pension Consultants: Talking heads
IPE put some questions to pension consultants and fiduciary managers, here is a selection of their views
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Europe’s Pension Consultants: Shifting plates
Liam Kennedy questions Chris Ford about ideas, advice and implementation in a changing consulting industry
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Europe's Pension Consultants: The long game
The static long-term assumptions of past consulting methodologies are no longer fit for purpose. But Brendan Maton finds that developing new approaches is a tough intellectual and practical challenge
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Talking heads
IPE put some questions to pension consultants and fiduciary managers across Europe. Here is a selection of their views
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Filling the M&A gap
The high margins available from corporate activities appear to be a thing of the past, but Gerry O’Kane finds consultants benefiting instead from the increasing complexity of the pensions landscape
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Europe's Pension Consultants: How competent are consultants?
Trustees would never hire an unqualified actuary or lawyer. But Roger Brown warns that closer scrutiny might reveal that they are taking advice from an unqualified investment consultant
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Europe's Pension Consultants: Playing the long game
With so many pressures to focus on the short term, consultants are having to craft more sophisticated investment advice – and in some cases, re-think business models – to help clients attain their long-term objectives. Gill Wadsworth reports
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Europe's Pension Consultants: The professionals
Gill Wadsworth looks at the success of independent trustees in the UK and plans to promote them in the Netherlands, and examines their working relationship with pension consultants
