All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 13
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Features
Costs really matter
Lay representation on pension fund trustee boards is one of the hallmarks of occupational pensions in Europe and other parts of the world
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Features
Costs really matter
A slow but steady evolution in best practice on cost disclosure and reporting is changing the way pension funds think about the asset management industry as well as the way they structure their internal resources.
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News
Charles Prideaux to step down from BlackRock
Prideaux appointed to current role earlier this year
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Features
President Trump
The election of Donald Trump as US president represents a sea-change in politics and for a second time in less than six months, following the UK’s Brexit vote, investors are left unscrambling the implications for markets over various time horizons.
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Features
ATP: Steady as she goes for ATP
The announcement of Christian Hyldahl as ATP’s new chief signals a steady-as-she-goes approach in turbulent financial times, at the same time as a strong focus on operational efficiency for the giant Danish labour market pension fund.
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News
Liam Kennedy: Political uncertainty is back like never before
For the second time in less than six months, investors are left scratching their heads
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Features
Switzerland's pensions debate: Negative for longer
Switzerland is engaged in a debate not just about its pension reforms, but also wider issues of intergenerational fairness and the stability of the second-pillar pension system
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Special Report
Multi-Asset Strategies: Can you beat it?
Investors have for years used a 60% allocation to equities and a 40% allocation to bonds (sometimes inverted) as a simple and informal benchmark for an investment strategy
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Affiliated Managers Group
The business philosophy of AMG is a consistent one: grow revenue and cash earnings per share by taking stakes in best-in-class boutique asset management businesses. Repeat the exercise
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News
EIOPA calls for new powers to create pan-European personal pensions
Chairman says CMU project should prioritise supervisory convergence
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Features
An industrial revolution
There used to be a stark divide in pensions, particularly in the UK and the US, with a high level of security in defined benefit (DB) and a low level in defined contribution (DC)
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: TIAA Global Asset Management
TIAA has been on an expansion path in recent years. The organisation is now busy repositioning itself
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Features
Sharp tools needed
Some contend that book reserve pensions took root in Germany because funded pensions, such as they were, had been wiped out in the hyperinflation of the 1920s
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Features
Brexit: Scheduled for departure
The political and economic ramifications of Brexit are wide-ranging. The effect on Gilts, sterling and equity markets was immediate in the aftermath of the referendum.
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: Aviva Investors
At Standard Life Investments, Euan Munro broke the mould in two ways as the founder of the Global Absolute Return Strategy (GARS) fund
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Special Report
Interview: Keith Ambachtsheer
Liam Kennedy in conversation with Keith Ambachtsheer. His latest book, The Future of Pension Management, was published earlier this year
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News
Liam Kennedy on Brexit: Scheduled for departure
IPE’s editor highlights five consequences of today’s Brexit vote for European pensions
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News
IORP II compromises on cross-border funding, requires stranded-asset check
Dutch presidency sees text of new IORP Directive as ‘final package’
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NewsIORP II compromise reached, although Dutch presidency remains coy
Official line from Dutch presidency says discussions ‘not quite’ finalised
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Features
A thin regulatory line
Back in the 1990s, the UK created a Child Support Agency, whose objective was to ensure errant fathers and mothers pay due financial maintenance to estranged offspring
