All articles by IPE staff – Page 29
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Features
The dilemma of choice
Increasingly, the trend is for DC pension plan providers to offer members of DC retirement plans more investment options. Economic theorists say this must be a good thing: the more choices people are given the better off they are likely to be. But are they? Do non-professionals have the necessary ...
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Coordinated campaign rolls out redesigned and strengthened
ABP needs no introduction and it is no surprise that it has won yet another IPE Award, the Silver Award for Best Public Pension Fund 2004, thanks to its quick thinking and innovative pensions repackaging to ensure the survival of its defined benefit plan alongside the introduction of new products. ...
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Real-time asset-liability testing reduces the stre
With its Pension Risk Management (PRiMa) concept, MetallRente, the Berlin-based pensions fund provider for Germany’s metal industry, believes it has achieved true innovation in pension fund management with the creation of a real-time asset-liability management framework. The two areas of the German pension reform bill in 2001 that received the ...
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Innovative combination of tools ensures reserves aplenty
Denmark’s biggest pension fund, ATP, with more than Dkr300bn under management and covering practically 4.9m members in the public sector, undertook a restructuring last year of its risk management process by reviewing two key areas: asset-liability modelling (ALM) and asset allocation adjusting. The two go hand in hand and ATP ...
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BGB seeks international partner
Munich-based actuarial and benefits consulting firm Bode Grabner Beye (BGB) is actively seeking an international partner following the recent dissolution of its 22-year-old joint venture with Watson Wyatt. Christoph Bode, managing director at BGB, said that his firm was in talks with “several international partners” regarding possible cooperation in the ...
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DeAM unfazed by E4.3bn UK mandate losses
EUROPE – Deutsche Asset Management has said a total of three billion pounds (4.3 billion euros) in recent pension fund mandate losses is not such a “big shock”.
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German consultant Bode looking for partners
GERMANY - Bode Grabner Beye, a German actuarial and benefits consulting firm, is actively seeking an international partner following the recent dissolution of its 22-year-old joint venture with Watson Wyatt.
