Latest Special Reports – Page 97
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It’s still a man’s world
Nina Röhrbein finds out whether diversity on company boards help stave off crises by bringing fresh thinking and different skills?
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France: The impact of a shorter horizon
Alain Lemoine makes a gloomy assessment of the wider impact on French pensions reform and funding of the decision to drawdown on FRR
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France: Internalising investment
France’s Fonds stratégique d’investissement plans to increase its regional diversification in 2011 and establish a capital investment fund in Alsace. Stuart Todd assesses these and other goals
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France: Continental drift
Richard Bruyère presents the results of the tenth annual I&F survey of the institutional marketplace in France
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France: Diversity embraced
Christine Senior reports on the shift away from sovereign debt as French insurers seek yield and reduce risk
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France: Learning the lessons of crisis
Jean-Pierre Grimaud discusses the importance of stability for the investment industry
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France: How do you spell ‘engagement’?
Dominique Blanc and Samer Hobeika discuss the French approach to shareholder engagement
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France: The company and retirement
Nora Ouidir discusses corporate approaches to retirement and human resource issues in France
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Commodities: Beyond oil
Lynn Strongin Dodds considers the extra diversification benefits available from commodities with weaker links to the industrial cycle
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Commodities: Whipping up the amber waves
Commodity futures investors are not ‘evil speculators’, finds Martin Steward. But do they enable the farmers who are?
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Commodities: Grub first, then ethics
Passions run high and evidence is mixed. Nina Röhrbein finds pension fund investors often play safe when it comes to food futures
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Commodities: Energy revolutions
Forget renewables. Anthony Harrington finds that the technology that might really disrupt your portfolio’s traditional oil exposures – and much else besides – could be shale gas extraction
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Commodities: Water, water everywhere…
…any way to invest? Martin Steward ponders how to turn H2O into EUR, GBP and USD
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France: Same game, new playing field
Legislation passed late in 2010 completely changed the FRR’s purpose and liability stream. Martin Steward spoke with its CIO about the consequent re-tooling of its investment strategy
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Learning from Vedanta
Nina Röhrbein examines the rights of indigenous people, an important issue as natural resources become scarcer, forcing exploration of the world’s remoter regions
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Longevity: Beyond buyout and buy-in
The time seems right to develop an international secondary market for longevity risk that allows pension funds to deal with the downside of longer lives, writes Mariska van der Westen
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Longevity: Uncertain life expectancies
In the Netherlands, sharply rising life expectancies have been an issue since 2009. Every pension fund is using its own numbers, and the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts diverge from the Dutch Actuarial Association’s. André de Vos tries to sort the confusion
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Longevity: Age concerns
In Europe, Germany faces the most pressure to deal with an ageing population finds Jonathan Williams
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Special ReportLongevity: Live long… and prosper?
Individual circumstances can make a decade of difference to how long we live after retirement. As Sarah Harper, Kenneth Howse and Steven Baxter observe, this makes simply raising the retirement age inequitable
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Longevity: Lives of the SAINTs
At four million, the small population of Denmark is not a reliable dataset for longevity projections. Rachel Fixsen finds out how ATP went global for a better model
