All Guest Viewpoint articles – Page 16
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Toby Nangle, Director, Baring Asset Management
“Developing countries are positioned to enjoy a demographic dividend from now until 2030-35”
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Damian Handzy, chairman and CEO, Investor Analytics
Never mind what went wrong in the financial crisis, what went right?
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Stephen Cooper, board member, International Accounting Standards Board
The issue of accounting for pensions has always been fraught for standard-setters who by necessity concentrate their efforts on the needs of investors who are, after all, generally considered to be the primary users of financial statements
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Pension contracts and regulation
Robert C Merton and Jan Snippe argue that Dutch pension legislation should be inspired by fresh and logical thinking
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Con Keating, head of research at Brighton Rock Group
“The optimal distribution of risk between member and sponsor is complex”
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Opinion PiecesDominique Senequier, chief executive of AXA Private Equity
“SWFs, being long-term investors with steady funding sources, will have a role to play in shaping the future landscape of private equity”
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Danyelle Guyatt, Mercer & Jon Lukomnik, IRRC Institute
“The problems start when so-called long-horizon managers play the short-term game”
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Opinion PiecesAnton van Nunen, Van Nunen & Partners
The first fiduciary contracts were drafted some 7-8 years ago, and now more than three quarters of externally managed Dutch pension money is under fiduciary management. It is time to evaluate the rapid development and, in particular, to correct aberrations that have occurred since.
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Opinion PiecesElizabeth Corley, CEO, Allianz Global Investors Europe
You can’t fall in love with the European single market. At least that is the considered opinion of the father of the project, Jacques Delors. However, you can celebrate its outcomes. European integration has fostered an environment that has allowed the various financial market sectors to consolidate. Today, sectors such as banking, insurance and asset management have broadened their business and extended operations across Europe, while European pension funds have largely stayed on the sidelines.
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Hugo Lasat, CEO, Amonis Pension Fund
“The funds industry is a good shelter for the anxious client. But this is only true on the condition that fund managers can perform their role as risk managers”
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Will Price, International Organisation of Pension Supervisors
We live in a world of integrated markets where co-operation and cohesion of our diverse regulatory approaches is key to understanding and mitigating the impact of the global financial turmoil.
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Con Keating, head of research, BrightonRock Group
The September edition of IPE contained articles on valuation, securities lending, collateral management and lessons from the financial crisis. Observations such as: ‘any exposure needs to be collateralised’ and ‘an aggressive move to daily margining’ set the tone but also brought to mind the Vietnam War era expression ‘collateral damage’.
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“Is your pension fund a Sweden or a Colombia?”
Longevity is widely recognised as a key risk. Hewitt’s recent global risk survey, carried out in the fourth quarter of 2008, recognised that improvements in longevity appear high on the list of risk factors concerning companies – more so in the UK than equity market risk. But how many schemes ...
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Guest Viewpoint
Target date: “There is ample room for added value between one size-fits-all solutions and do-it-yourself approaches to long-term investment decisions”
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint
“The real goal of risk management is to give decision makers a more intimate understanding of their portfolio”
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Guest Viewpoint
“Seeing that the key to restoring stability lies with them, pension funds are a growing force for change”
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Is the emperor wearing clothes?
Norman Chait argues that hedge funds should again perform their traditional role of providing genuine sources of non-correlated returns and downside protections
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A stockpickers’ market
History suggests a good decade ahead for equities, but good stockpicking will enjoy handsome returns even in a stagnating market, argue Habib Subjally and Perry Winfield
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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint
“If the PPF were to be overwhelmed by claims, the taxpayer would almost certainly end up paying”
