Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 184
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Features
Norges Bank Investment Management: Strategy shift at Europe’s biggest investor
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), arguably the world’s most watched institutional investor, is considering adopting a risk-factor approach.
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BHS Pension Scheme: The UK Pensions Regulator and the pariah
On 28 February came the news for which 19,000 former staff of the collapsed high-street chain BHS had been waiting: its former owner, Sir Philip Green, was to pay £363m (€414m) to prop up the company’s two pension schemes.
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Opinion Pieces
Long Term Matters: Disrupting CEO pay
The former CEO of the Investment Association, the trade body that represents UK investment managers, has made a disruptive proposal on CEO pay
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Brexit and equivalence
Nothing could be clearer. For the financial sector, at least, there is nothing to fear from Brexit. All the UK has to do is to apply to the EU’s rules – the crucial term ‘equivalence’
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Features
Interview: Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
Peter Damgaard Jensen tells Susanna Rust about the need to keep up the momentum on climate change and develop more green investment opportunities for institutional investors
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Philip Shier - Society of Actuaries in Ireland
One of the objectives of the European Commission in the revision of the IORP Directive was to enhance the information provided to prospective members, members and beneficiaries of IORPs
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Interviews
On the Record: How do you get the best out of consultants?
Three pension funds - BNL BNP Paribas, Heidelberg Cement and Istituto di Previdenza del Cantone Ticino - share insights on working with consultants
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Features
UK Pensions: Eyes on the real world
Investment decisions should be made with a long-term, realistic view of the world, argues Carl Hitchman
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Accounting: The inflation challenge
Stephen Bouvier looks at the complications pension plan sponsors face when calculating the pension liability of their schemes under IAS 19
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Accounting: Are pension expenses ‘faked’?
Alfred Gohdes offers a personal view on an approach to reduce pension cost under US GAAP and IAS 19
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Features
ESG: From niche to norm?
Susanna Rust charts the evolution of responsible investment over the past 20 years
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: ChinaAMC
Asset management is one of the few areas of business where, so far at least, the Chinese have made little global impact. No Chinese firm was even in the top 100 in the 2016 IPE rankings
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
So the world economy continues to expand, albeit at quite a modest pace. Many observers remain cautious that this upswing will go the way of all the other post-financial crisis recoveries and run out of steam, perhaps soon. But the synchronisation of these reflationary signs across the world gives others hope that the current growth upturn will be sustained.
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Features
Ahead of the Curve: A real asset in DC plans
Vince Childers says that in today’s environment, real assets can provide diversification, long-term return potential and inflation protection
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Interviews
Focus Group: Do consultants add value?
Three-quarters of the investors polled for this month’s Focus Group say investment consultants have added value to their investment portfolio
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Reading the coffee grains
Can you guess the topic of discussion of the latest Wasserdicht global investment committee? You probably can: it was political risk
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FeaturesIPE Expectations Indicator April 2017
The latest manager poll has two main themes: markets are weak and levels of sentiment are extreme.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Further uncertainty
The US retirement industry faces uncertain times after the Department of Labor decided in March to delay by 60 days the implementation of the so-called fiduciary rule. But many companies have already executed the new rule, and will not go back
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InterviewsHow we run our money: NEST
Mark Fawcett, the CIO of NEST, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo what the future holds for the UK’s fast-growing defined contribution scheme
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Features
Europe: Managing geopolitical risk
European investors face an unprecedented array of political risks over the next few months. Daniel Ben-Ami reports
