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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: The dragon awakes
Joseph Mariathasan examines China’s Third Plenum, which some are hailing as a watershed towards a market-led economy
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging market equities – Buyers’ strike?
Cracks may be appearing in the great emerging consumer story. Martin Steward speaks to three managers that have scaled this edifice and offer different perspectives on whether it is time to jump off
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: Wild frontiers
David Turner finds that illiquidity, political and ESG risks all conspire to put a limit on pension fund allocations to the high-growth potential of frontier markets
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FeaturesRetaining interest
Torsten von Bartenwerffer points out that rising rates do not necessarily mean losses in fixed income, and argues for smarter long-only strategies rather than market-timing or long/short approaches
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FeaturesEmerging opportunities
Over three-quarters (16 respondents) of the 20 investors polled for this month’s Focus Group believe the recent underperformance of emerging-market assets has made them more attractive to their fund. According to a UK fund: “Emerging-market performance is still likely to compare favourably with developed-market performance.”
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FeaturesWhat do you want to know?
Diary of an Investor: At Wasserdicht Pension Funds, the investment team generally gets on with the job of running the fund’s money in the way the trustees tell us to.
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Asset Class ReportsEmerging Market Equities: India turns a corner
Joseph Mariathasan finds that political and central bank governance could be at a positive turning point in India, as could corporate governance at company level
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Features
Variable solutions
Europe is moving slowly and deliberately away from defined benefit pensions to approaches that, if well considered, might prove a sustainable model for workplace retirement provision.
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Haggling with the hedge funds
For this month’s Focus Group Survey, we asked 19 readers about hedge funds.
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The fiduciary fight
Should trustees feel constrained by the existing interpretation of their fiduciary duties?
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Expect more scrutiny on systemic relevance
A transformation is taking place in the five-year performance track records of countless investment funds and strategies as this year fades out and the impact of the market collapse of late 2008 is erased.
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The UK fiduciary duty straitjacket
Should trustees consider environmental concerns, or even more widespread systemic issues, when investing on behalf of their beneficiaries?
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New combatants in an uncertain war
Despite the single market Commisoner Michel Barnier’s recent concession that the European Commission would not attempt to publish a draft of the revised IORP Directive with its controversial capital requirements attached, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) is pushing ahead with several consultations on the holistic balance sheet (HBS)
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Opinion Pieces
A phoney war for KID
A phoney war is in operation. No guns are being fired. No bombs falling. But there a number of indications of an arms race over the matter of a simple two page information document known as KID – and its possible extension to cover the occupational pension sector.
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Opinion Pieces
Too big to fail?
Are US asset management firms ‘too big to fail’? In other words, do they represent systemic risks similar to those posed by the largest banks, so much that they must be subject to ‘enhanced’ supervision?
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Closing questions
David Paterson, former head of corporate governance at the UK’s powerful National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) who retired in October 2013, held the last phase of his post during the Shareholder Spring of institutional investor action in 2012, when governance clashes were front page news.
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Time to pool resources
Leen Preesman asks the CEOs of PGGM and PKA about their co-operation plans and about the development of supplementary pensions in Europe
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Public sector challenges
Gail Moss speaks to Eva Kiwit of EAPSPI, the voice of public pensions at European level
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Castilian discipline
Nina Röhrbein asked Jaime Martinez-Gómez about the governance, risk and portfolio strategies of Fonditel, the manager of Telefonica’s Spanish pension fund
