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Features
Double bottom line
Eugene O’Callaghan, investment director of the National Pensions Reserve Fund, tells Liam Kennedy about the business plan for the new Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and progress so far in transitioning the portfolio into one with a dual mandate for returns and economic impact
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Country Report
Ireland: The long grass
Ten months after an OCED report on Ireland’s pension system, Christine Senior outlines faltering progress towards increasing pension coverage
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Country Report
Ireland: Robbing Paul to pay Peter
Ireland’s wind-up order has finally been amended, addressing some of the inequities that saw actives lose out to fund the benefits of those already retired, writes Jonathan Williams
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Country Report
Ireland: Economies of scale
Rachel Fixsen outlines progress on the Irish Pension Board’s review of DC pension provision
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Country Report
Ireland: Be a pro-active trustee
James Kavanagh outlines a six-step approach for trustees of Irish pension funds
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Country Report
Ireland: Deficits persist
Conor Daly and Fergus Collis provide an update on the deficits in Irish DB pension schemes
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Special Report
Corporate Governance: A little less conversation
List all of the fora, working groups, initiatives, statements of principles, codes and associations dedicated to pursuing better corporate governance and other sustainable business and investment goals, and you would think that this was a hive of world-changing activity.
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Special Report
Corporate Governance: Cultural shift
The UK Stewardship Code, now three years old, was re-visited in the wake of an influential review of UK markets. But Mike Scott finds that there is still a long way to go before the spirit of the Code is embedded in asset management culture
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Special Report
Corporate Governance: Of carrots and sticks
The executive remuneration debate has evolved considerably since 2012’s Shareholder Spring, writes Nina Röhrbein. But there is considerable disagreement on the right balance between regulation and a voluntary approach
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Special Report
Corporate Governance: Cash in hand
Cash mountains and share buybacks are a prominent feature of the new corporate environment. Is this investor short-termism constraining productive investment, or good corporate discipline rejecting unproductive spending? Mike Scott investigates
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Special Report
Corporate Governance: Can’t we all just get along?
Corporate governance thinkers believe peaceful co-existence between activist investors and company boards and management is at hand. Christopher O’Dea finds activism lauded as a valuable corrective mechanism that can improve performance
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Features
The US Treasury’s New Year gift
The US Treasury brings to market its first new product in nearly 20 years. Stephanie Schwartz reports
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Features
From recycle to growth cycle
Brian Bollen asks whether a pick-up in corporate and economic activity can awake the loan market from a torpor of refinancing
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Features
Illiquid but not non-transparent
Cyril Demaria argues that private equity illiquidity need not prevent the creation of a model for vintage return prediction that can reduce the prudential capital costs of the asset class
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Features
Sustainability is key in farmland
Nina Röhrbein looks at the future of farmland as an asset class
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Interviews
Not corporate governance police
Poor governance may have been catapulted into the headlines in recent years, but to-date few asset managers in Europe have been trying to make money through activist strategies. One that does, as part of its range of products, is London’s RWC. In 2013, RWC’s assets under management grew from $5bn (€3.7bn) to $7.5bn, which its CEO Dan Mannix attributes to “a normalisation of opportunities within the equity markets” and a general improvement in investor sentiment.
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Interviews
Operating in the market shadows
Harald Espedal has a party to get to. It is October 2013 and he is in London to celebrate Skagen Funds’ twentieth birthday with the firm’s growing UK team and a host of colleagues from Stavanger in Norway.
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Small companies, big valuations?
Joseph Mariathasan looks at small-caps around the world after a long period of outperformance, and finds plenty of reasons to believe that current valuations remain reasonable
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Put on a smart cap
Charlotte Moore weighs up the arguments for a range of ways to access smaller companies – approaches that all agree with common sense, but not always with one another
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Europe’s modest world-beaters
Cedric Durant des Aulnois argues that small-cap investors do not have to compromise on quality – and they can now also get it cheaper
