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Special ReportIceland: Glimmers of hope
After seven years of capital and currency controls, restrictions on pension funds investing outside the country are beginning to be relaxed
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Features
From Our Perspective: Who’s watching the watchers?
In some countries they are accused of heavy-handedness; in others they seem content to play a light-touch role. Either way, European pension regulation remains as diverse as the continent’s pension systems. The IORP II Directive, like its 2004 counterpart will be interpreted and implemented differently across the EU member states; harmonisation of regulation has not led to a harmonisation of regulators.
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Features
Reviving the Celtic tiger
The biggest challenge facing Eugene O’Callaghan, director of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, is how to avoid pricing himself out of a recovering Irish market
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Learning from coal
Last month the chief executive of Norges Bank Investment Management, Yngve Slyngstad, offered an implicit admission of error
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A tricky path ahead
The process of making pensions policy in Brussels between now and end of the year resembles two juggernauts moving towards each other
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: A new way of thinking
Three years ago car makers Ford and General Motors opened the way to a new means of de-risking defined-benefit (DB) pension plans. They offered a lump sum to participants who were receiving benefits
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Jason Hsu - Research Affiliates
“A public hanging is a good thing now and then.” These are the words of an anonymous CEO whose sentiment would indicate that the firm he led was probably struggling to meet the service and performance expectations of its clients
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Features
Don’t miss out on class action payouts
Class action activity is on the rise in the US where some European institutions have received big payouts
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Features
Defined Contribution: Going the distance
In Australia and the US, best practice in the DC sector is to ensure participants have sufficient income throughout retirement, writes Christopher O’Dea
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Features
Accounting Standards: Prudence redux
The International Accounting Standards Board says it has listened to long-term investors and is considering the reintroduction of the concept of prudence into its conceptual framework
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FeaturesHow we run our money: PPF
Barry Kenneth, chief investment officer at the Pension Protection Fund, tells Taha Lokhandwala about the UK’s lifeboat fund’s innovative strategies
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Features
Focus Group: Contribution to the future
Two-thirds of the funds polled for this month’s Focus Group said defined contribution (DC) represents the future for pension provision
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Features
Diary of an Investor: Patience is a virtue
Once our half-yearly reports are out of the way, the summer months are usually a good opportunity to look through our portfolio holdings and to read up on the trends and forecasts that some of the industry’s foremost commentators are making
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Special Report
Ireland: Attention shifts to DC as health of DB sector improves
After several large changes to Irish defined benefit regulation, bigger changes are on the horizon for the defined contribution sector, as the government seeks to boost pension coverage
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Interviews
On the Record: Do you employ smart beta strategies?
Three pension funds - FRR, NEST and USS - share their thoughts about smart beta strategies
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Features
Research: Caution on the equity risk premium
In this second article in a series on a new study, Nick Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that artificially low interest rates have dragged the predictive power of the equity risk premium to near zero
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FeaturesInterview: The view from Copenhagen
Rachel Fixsen spoke to Carsten Stendevad about his vision for Denmark’s labour market pension fund, ATP, and his first two years as CEO
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Features
What can Europe do?
This year Italy will spend almost 15% of GDP on public pensions, higher than any other EU country, according to Eurostat
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Special Report
Italy: Lack of long-term vision threatens to stifle growth
In giving more freedom to employees to make pension choices, lawmakers are in danger of slowing down the growth of Italy’s second pillar
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Special ReportThe Netherlands - Entire pensions system under scrutiny
Following a nation-wide debate, the Dutch have set out to create a new pension system that will be sustainable and fair to all generations
