All How We Run Our Money articles – Page 9
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Berkshire: Straight talker
The UK’s Royal County of Berkshire pension fund has slashed long-only equities and hedged its longevity risk. The manager of the fund, Nick Greenwood, told Brendan Maton about his strategy
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PP Pension: Steady as she goes
The €796m PP Pension fund is known for consistently producing excellent returns. But after a recent dip in performance, the newly appointed CEO Viveka Ekberg (pictured) and CIO Cecelia Thomasson Blomquist aim to re-establish the fund’s good returns without compromising on its winning philosophy, writes Pirkko Juntunen
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Full speed ahead
A €2.6bn pension fund will look after CERN’s scientists long after they have finished their minute inspection of the universe using the Large Hadron Collider. Nina Röhrbein visited Christian Cuénoud, the fund’s retiring administrator
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A Selective Focus
ABN AMRO’s Dutch pension fund believes its focus on all stakeholder interests has helped prevent it from dropping below its statutory funding level. Liam Kennedy spoke to Rob Meuter, chairman of the trustee board, and Geraldine Leegwater, head of investments for the fund’s in-house pension bureau
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Risk separation
The 2008 asset allocation review of UBS’ Swiss Pensionskasse turned into a more extensive exercise than the fund had expected, but the fund kept faith with its strategic asset allocation. Nina Röhrbein was in conversation with Christoph Schenk, the funds CIO and recently appointed CIO and head of investments for UBS AG
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Future foundation
Liam Kennedy discussed the investment philosophy of Germany’s VolkswagenStiftung with its CIO, Dieter Lehmann
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Nerves of steel
Hugh Smart of the British Steel Pension Fund tells Nina Röhrbein about his approach to dynamic decision making in a portfolio split between liability matching and return generation
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Bounty hunt
Many people assume that German pension fund asset allocation is a conservative game. But it is famously the exceptions that prove the rule.
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In the real world
Nina Röhrbein discusses indexation policy and inflation protection with Mariëtte Simons, director at the Utrecht-based Pensioenfonds SNS Reaal
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FeaturesMake the portfolio sweat
Liam Kennedy spoke to the BVK’s Daniel Just and André Heimrich about the progress they are making with their diversification programme
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In-house tactics
Nina Röhrbein spoke to Timo Ritakallio, deputy CEO and head of investments at Ilmarinen, Finland’s oldest mutual insurance company, about how its investment strategy is coping with the financial crisis
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A two-way street
Nina Röhrbein spoke to Edwin Meysmans, managing director of Pensioenfonds KBC, about running a two-tier pension scheme and the different investment strategies necessary
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FeaturesA Christian institutional investor
A year ago the Church of Sweden implemented a new investment policy which includes a more sophisticated, layered approach to its ethical investing. Brendan Maton spoke with CIO Anders Thorendal
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The king of the cash mountain
Siemens feel they have reached the end of the line with the book reserve system. Herbert Lohneiss tells Fennell Betson why he is not satisfied. At Siemens, they reckon they have gone as far as they can to funding the group’s enormous pensions provisions under the book reserve system. But ...
