Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 206
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Features
IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2013 - Richard Balfe
Judge’s comment - “Richard has been an outstanding and outspoken supporter of pensions funds and the pensions industry, not only in his capacity as chairman of the MEPs fund, and more recently as a director of the CERN fund, but all through his political ...
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IPE Pension Fund Personality of the Year 2012 - Geraldine Leegwater
The mind behind the blueprint for success A distinction of winning the coveted IPE Pension Fund Personality of the Year Award is that this is the readers’ choice. By voting for ABN AMRO Pension Fund’s Geraldine Leegwater, they are acknowledging the leadership qualities and dedication she has ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2012 - Lars Rohde
The perfect swansong What better way to end your career at one the world’s leading pension funds than to be honoured by your peers for your outstanding contribution to the industry? That is exactly what has happened this year to Lars Rohde, soon to step down ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2011 - PensionsInfo
Next level in sophisticated pensions communication Denmark’s PensionsInfo became the first comprehensive online pensions service in the world that allows any member of any pension scheme in Denmark to check a whole range of information on their pension. This is a truly innovative development that is taking the principles of ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2010 - Chris Verhaegen
Chris Verhaegen’s influence on the European pension funds industry is immediately apparent in the pages of IPE. In one instance she is commenting on trans-Atlantic co-operation between pension fund associations; in another she is offering her views on the new European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2009 - Anton van Nunen
The Darwin of the pensions world Anton van Nunen is much more than a highly respected pensions specialist: he is a trendsetter whose innovative fiduciary management model is revolutionising the way pension schemes view their investments and structural organisation. His concept has played a significant part in ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2008 - Philip Neyt
Heart of the matter Some people bring a dedication and commitment to their work that is truly commendable and shows a degree of leadership most could only dream of. Usually modest and humble in their approach, these are the outstanding thought leaders that take their industries to ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2007 - Keith Ambachtsheer
The pension thinking revolutionary Thought leadership is a well worn term but one sure practitioner in the pension fund world is Keith Ambachtsheer, who has been voted by our readers as winner of this year’s IPE Gold Award for outstanding industry contribution. He is perhaps most familiar ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2005 - Koen De Ryck
Peers acknowledge the ‘constant gardener’ of European pensions This year’s winner of the Award for Outstanding Industry Contribution goes to Koen De Ryck. He was the clear favourite among the 18 candidates who were on the list that IPE readers were asked to vote on. That comes ...
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IPE Outstanding Industry Contribution 2004 - Alan Pickering
Common sense and political realism wins friends across Europe Alan Pickering wears so many hats within the pensions arena that it would be impossible to hazard a guess as to why IPE readers and others selected him from 20-plus other individuals and organisations nominated for the Outstanding ...
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Features
A thin regulatory line
Back in the 1990s, the UK created a Child Support Agency, whose objective was to ensure errant fathers and mothers pay due financial maintenance to estranged offspring
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Country Report
Pensions In Turkey: Diversification lanes open
Amendments to pension market rules are opening opportunities for pension funds to diversify their portfolios through investments in property and foreign equities. Reeta Paakkinen reports
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Country Report
Sweden: Business as usual?
Rachel Fixsen looks at how the Swedish buffer funds have reacted to the flawed and ultimately shelved attempts to reform and consolidate them
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Special Report
Special Report: Liability-Driven Investment - Time to review LDI approaches
Regulation is challenging traditional LDI strategies. Schemes should take a closer look at how their interest rate and inflation risk is being managed.. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo reports
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Special Report
Special Report – Outlook for Europe: Focusing on the long term
It is astonishing how much economic and financial discussion focuses on the short-term and essentially trivial.
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Special ReportTop 400 Asset Managers 2016: Global assets now €56.3trn
Assets managed by the leading global asset managers increased by nearly 12% over the course of last year, according to the 2016 IPE Top 400 Asset Managers survey. This is less than the 17.8% increase recorded over the course of 2014, although higher than 2013’s 8.9% increase.
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Asset Class Reports
Investing In Government Bonds: Low yields, high interest
The euro-zone sovereign debt market is distorted by negative yields and quantative easing. Joseph Mariathasan assesses solutions to the situation
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Features
Stop blaming foreigners
Recent weeks have seen some nasty exchanges over the causes of Europe’s economic plight
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Country Report
Regulation: Countdown to auto-enrolment
Turkey is introducing auto-enrolment for private pensions this year, although full details are still to be announced, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Special Report
Innovation: The ‘missing link’ in a new world
In the new world of interest rate derivatives, asset managers need to engage in product innovation and technological change, argue David Bullen and Gavin Dixon
