Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 277
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Features
Little nests, birds and all that stuff
Keith Ambachtsheer’s ideal pension plan would not concern itself with labels such as defined benefit (DB) or defined contribution (DC) – rather, it would look at outcome and work its way back to a solution enabling such an outcome.
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Features
A look over the horizon
In the second of a two-part round-up, Stephen Bouvier invites leading pensions accounting practitioners to identify the issues to watch in the year ahead
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Opinion Pieces
Lessons from Davos
Who would have thought that Davos would take over from the dormant Occupy movement on the issue on ‘inequality’? Or that five years after the crisis the financial sector would still be top of the WEF Global Risks register?
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Opinion Pieces
Brussels to develop rules for social funds
Brussels looks set to flesh out the existing EU regulation for European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (EuSEFs), which lays down broad principles as to how funds should be governed.
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Opinion Pieces
Intriguing opportunities
De-risking strategies are likely to become more popular with US corporate pension funds now they have reached their healthiest state since the crisis. This trend has been ongoing for the last couple of years but may substantially accelerate in 2014, says consultancy Towers Watson.
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Opinion Pieces
Debbie Harrison Visiting professor The Pensions Institute, Cass Business School, UK
“The most important factor that determines the outcome in DC pensions is the member charge, not the investment strategy”
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Features
Focus Group: Cautious optimism
Of the 34 investors polled for this month’s Focus Group, 56% are confident that the world economy and financial system is over the worst. As a proportion of the poll, this is up on last year, when the split was almost 50/50. The surprise, perhaps, is that the swing has not been stronger, given the stellar performance in 2013 of developed-market equities.
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Features
DB, DC and all that
Wasserdicht’s Dutch pension fund is one of the few that has maintained a strong solvency ratio throughout the crisis of the past few years.
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Features
Investment therapy
René van Pommeren and Ada Wouters-Brongers of the Dutch physiotherapists’ pension fund tell Nina Röhrbein why their fund is unusual in the Netherlands
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Country Report
The Netherlands: All eyes on the homeland
Pension funds are under pressure to raise their domestic investments from the current level of 14%. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at how they have dealt with this imperative
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Real economy investment
Anton van Nunen describes a new initiative to boost lending to the Dutch SME sector
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Country Report
The Netherlands: State-guaranteed securitisation
The Dutch government would like the country’s pension funds to support the housing market by investing in mortgage bonds. But details remain sketchy, as Caroline Saunders reports
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Absolute confusion
A further delay of the long awaited change in financial rules for pension funds is looming, writes Olaf Boschman
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Can they have their cake and eat it?
In their search for a sustainable pension system, the Dutch are exploring ways to combine DB and DC. Theo Kocken shares his vision with Mariska van der Westen
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Country Report
The Netherlands: ‘Our first duty is pensions’
Peter Borgdorff tells Liam Kennedy about PFZW’s new contract with PGGM and its unstinting focus on costs
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Country Report
The Netherlands: A psychologist’s view of pensions
Prospect theory and a psychological analysis of the way scheme participants respond to a variety of pension promises may help to design a pension system better suited to member preferences, according to Thomas van Galen and Noortje van der Vorst
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Features
Unique challenges of climate risk
Climate change risk means the role of the CIO will never be the same again, argues Julian Poulter
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: What is Europe, exactly?
Investing in European equities sounds like a straightforward task. But as investors finally begin to look upon the region more favourably, Joseph Mariathasan finds that ‘investing in Europe’ can mean many different things
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Asset Class Reports
European Equities: Transition management
As the market-leading stocks and sectors begin to rotate, Martin Steward finds the top manager positions occupied by those value managers that have maintained pace with their quality peers over the past three years
