Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 217
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Country Report
Variable progress
There is room for improvement in the government’s plans to introduce variable annuities for DC pension funds, according to Wichert Hoeckert
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Special Report
Private Placements & Speciality Lines: Sound private arrangements
Diversifying into aviation, marine and energy risks through private placements makes sense from a risk-and-return perspective, writes Anthony Harrington
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of high-yield strategies to macro factors
The data shows the sensitivity of high-yield funds to changes in a selection of economic factors – global default spreads, global term spreads, global interest rates and global inflation
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Country Report
The Future: Near the end
Continuing stress on funding ratios is leading to renewed calls for a comprehensive overhaul of the Dutch occupational pension system
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Special Report
Who’s afraid of life risk?
Investors in insurance-linked securities (ILS) generally underwrite non-life risk, but sometimes insurers are willing to offload life risk as well, finds Carlo Svaluto Moreolo. What can investors expect from entering the life-risk market?
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Country Report
Interview: Corien Wortmann-Kool - ABP
ABP chair Corien Wortmann-Kool tells Leen Preesman about the need for speedy change to a new pension system and of the need to restore the trust of the fund’s 2.8m members
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Country Report
Interview: Gerard Riemen - Dutch Pension Federation
In January, Gerard Riemen, director of the Dutch Pension Federation, called for a new occupational pension design with personal accounts and risk sharing. He tells IPE about his aims
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Country Report
A changing landscape
Rajish Sagoenie and Martin Wouda comment on the fundamental changes taking place in the Dutch pension system
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Features
Sector underwhelmed by stress-test results
The first-ever sector-wide stress test of European occupational pension funds by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) concludes that they are most unlikely to transmit financial shocks to other market participants, even though these would entail significant deficits.
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Features
IORP II inches ahead
The revised IORP Directive is one step closer to fruition, after MEPs agreed on a final draft of the law.
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Features
2015 Returns: Strong ATP performance bucks the downward trend in returns
Investment returns at many European pension funds came crashing down in 2015 compared with the previous year. Denmark’s ATP was the only exception, posting a 17.2% return.
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Features
ATP: New risk-factor construction makes investment portfolio more flexible
Denmark’s DKK705bn (€94bn) statutory pension fund ATP says its new risk-factor-based investment portfolio approach, unveiled in its 2015 annual report, increases its investment flexibility and provides it with a better understanding of risk.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Value corrosion
Imagine ISIS had poisoned a US city, causing almost certain permanent damage to innocent infants and children. Can you imagine the likely domestic and international repercussions?
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Race to upgrade EFSI
Legislative moves to support the EU’s European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) are being rushed through Brussels. But, so far, evidence of any torrent of fund movement by the institutional investment sector across EU frontiers has yet to emerge.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: In search of balance
A woman leads one of the US pension funds most committed to long-terminism. She is Theresa J Whitmarsh, executive director of the Washington State Investment Board (WSIB), managing over $100bn (€89bn) of state pension, insurance, and other assets. She is also an advocate for a better gender balance in the financial industry, especially in the private equity sector.
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Features
Interview: Gabriel Bernardino, EIOPA
EIOPA chairman Gabriel Bernardino explains why the recent stress tests of European occupational pension funds were a valuable exercise
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Features
Research: The rise of private debt
Asset classes once considered too esoteric can be seen as safe havens when the market environment changes, argues Amin Rajan
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Interviews
On the Record: How do you optimise asset management costs?
Three pension funds - FONSEA, Pensions Caixa 30 and Sampension - discuss asset management costs
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Features
Briefing: Form Filling
Technical breaches of rules on company dividend payments raise corporate governance issues for investors, finds Stephen Bouvier
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Features
Regulation Roundup: Pension developments in Europe
IPE’s overview of regulatory and legislative changes in the pensions landscape in key European countries
