All articles by IPE staff – Page 15
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Still a popular choice
Fiduciary management is still gaining ground in the Netherlands, and pension funds believe themselves to be in control despite delegating to a one-stop shop service provider, according to the third annual fiduciary management survey of 26 Dutch pension funds of our Dutch sister publication IPN. The funds vary in size ...
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Features
Pensions Green Paper has industry reaching for fine-tooth comb
The European Commission takes pains to emphasise what its latest Green Paper on pensions does not do. The paper, for instance, does not make any specific proposals. Nor does it recommend increasing the age at which people can draw a pension. Nor does it try to force people to take out a private pension. The only thing the Commission wants the Green Paper to do, it says, is start a debate about “whether and how” the European pensions framework should be developed.
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Features
Industry Research:IPE European Institutional Asset Management Survey 2010
The European Institutional Asset Management Survey (EIAMS) this year celebrates its tenth anniversary. Invesco commenced the survey in 2000 and three years ago asked IPE to undertake it.
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Opinion Pieces
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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News
European institutional assets surpass €5 trillion
European institutional assets were €5.2trn at end-2009, up 8.3% from previous year (€5.2trn) Total AUM of IPE’s Top 400 Managers 2010 is €29.1trn (€23.4trn in 2009) Increase in overall AUM of 24.3% over 2009 BlackRock accounts for 7.9% of assets in study and is largest ...
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Country Report
Switzerland: The BVG generation
The BVG/LPP law of 1985 introduced mandatory workplace pensions in Switzerland.Looking back over the last 25 years, IPE questioned five industry figures
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Opinion Pieces
Con Keating, head of research at Brighton Rock Group
“The optimal distribution of risk between member and sponsor is complex”
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News
Swedish roundup: Kåpan Pensioner, AI Pension, Survey on Swedish pensions interest
SWEDEN – Kapan Pensioner recovered its investments to deliver a double-digit positive return in 2009, having lost over 15% in 2008. Its rival AI Pension followed close behind with an 11% gain. And a Swedish survey has revealed over half of the population care about their pensions.
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Opinion Pieces
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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News
Swedish update: Pension transfers, Länsförsäkringar AB
[17:00 CET 12-02] SWEDEN - Mats Odell, the minister for financial markets in Sweden, has promised to open all insurance-based pensions to free transfers between insurers, while Länsförsäkringar AB has a new chief executive.
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News
Swedish roundup: AP-Fonden, Electrolux
[17:05 CET 05-02] SWEDEN – Financial markets minister Mats Odell has told the Swedish parliament that the future of the Swedish AP buffer funds is a matter for the parliamentary five-party Pensions Group.
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NewsSwedish update, Part 2: East Capital, Pensioner tax
[17:05 CET 05-02] SWEDEN - East Capital has temporarily closed one of its funds in the Swedish national defined contribution pension system, known as the PPM.
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NewsGlobal Pension Survey: your support is requested
[16:35 CET 18-01] EUROPE - IPE, Tilburg University and the European Pension Academy are seeking the support of European pension funds following the launch of the Global Pensions Survey (GPS) www.globalpensionsurvey.com.
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News
Wednesday people roundup
[13:00 CET 02-12] GLOBAL – ÖPAG, Danish Money and Pensions Panel, Cardano UK, International Asset Management, RBC Capital Markets
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Opinion Pieces
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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News
IPE’s Steward takes investment award
[16:25 CET 05-11] IPE - Martin Steward, IPE’s investment editor, was yesterday named investment journalist of the year in State Street’s annual Institutional Press Awards.
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Country Report
AP1 New strategic focus
Shifting its focus to asset allocation and risk management and realising the importance of finding new and more efficient ways of managing assets was already apparent to Sweden’s AP1, the First National Pension Fund, ahead of what has become the worst financial crises and economic downturn in modern history.
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Country Report
AP2 Back to basics
It is often said that there is nothing like a crisis to focus the mind. This is certainly true of AP2, the Second Swedish National Pension fund, which has come through the turmoil with a new focus and a streamlined investment team.
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Country Report
AP3 Opportunities out of adversity
Despite what most in the financial sector would call a truly annus horibilis, the Third National Pension Fund in Sweden, warns against panicking and staring yourself blind on one bad year, particularly as an investor with a long investment horizon. Instead the management of the fund continues to focus on ...
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Country Report
AP4 Improvements despite criticism
Public pension funds are scrutinised in general and every decision is under the microscope, perhaps more so than in most areas in Sweden, with its tradition of open and transparent governance.
