All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 24
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Special ReportInvestment consultants forum
Liam Kennedy spoke to senior figures from Hewitt, Mercer and Watson Wyatt about the new partnership-based relationships that they are forging with their clients
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Features
Shades of asset management
Sinopia, HSBC Investments’ Paris-based quantitative asset management unit, shares its name with a red-brown ochre pigment that was popular in Renaissance wall painting.
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Features
CPP IB: Heed our cry
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is concerned about protectionist legislation directed at sovereign wealth funds. Gail Cook-Bennett, chair of CPP IB, outlined her vision of governance and transparency to Liam Kennedy
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Features
Looking for long-term solutions
Positioning a relatively new investment company is not always an easy feat when the world is stuffed full of boutiques and behemoths of all hues and everything in between.
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Special Report
On the sustainable growth path
A tried and tested path for asset managers on the expansion warpath is to buy up competitors or boutiques. But many over eager acquisitions have failed on the tricky side of the equation – the integration of people and processes into a larger unit.
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Features
Taking account of quants
Some quantitative investment models performed erratically this summer, leading to losses for investors in some high profile hedge funds. Liam Kennedy asks two quant specialists about this summer’s events and the lessons for investors
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Special Report
Why governance is key for Kitts
Liam Kennedy spoke to Arno Kitts about how he is getting along as investment council chairman for the UK NAPF
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News
Institutions’ 130/30 appetite tops €6bn - IPE study
[16:30 CEST 10-10] EUROPE – European institutional assets in 130/30 and other allied strategies exceed €6bn, according to a survey published in the October edition of IPE.
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Features
Shifting horizons
The AHV/AVS Swiss Federal Social Security Buffer Fund, continues to diversify its assets − this year investing into commodities and Japanese small cap equities. However, it faces a long-term funding crisis that could see its assets dwindle to nothing within eight years. Liam Kennedy spoke with Eric Breval, the fund’s managing director
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Features
Germany's wise man of pensions
Prof Bert Rürup is a well-known figure in Germany and has played an important role in recent years in the formation of public pension policy. He spoke to Liam Kennedy about reform and the future
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News
Mercer takes implemented consulting to Europe
[11:08 CEST 12-09] EUROPE - Mercer intends to expand its implemented consulting activities to win business in Ireland and the UK, as well as in fiduciary management in the Netherlands over the next 3-5 years.
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Features
The 2.0 multi-asset comeback
Diversified growth funds give smaller and mid sized pension funds access to a greater range of asset classes than they might otherwise be able to handle, including alternatives. Liam Kennedy reports
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News
F&C moves 130/30 into Europe
[16:30 CEST 26-07] UK - F&C, the fund manager majority-owned by Friends Provident, is to expand its newly-launched UK 130/30 strategy into European equities.
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Cardano debuts new consultancy model in UK
[17:00 CEST 19-07] UK - Cardano, the Rotterdam-based consultant specialising in derivatives and risk, is now actively competing against mainstream UK firms for investment consulting business.
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Rethink global equities, says Pioneer
[16:45 CEST 11-07] GLOBAL - Asset managers must rethink the way they present global equity products, according to Pioneer Investments’ global head of institutional business, Paul Price: “The age of the product push is over,” he said today.
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Features
Introducing a competitive element
Portugal’s state social security buffer fund is at the threshold of two changes – the outsourcing of assets and the introduction of a new defined contribution regime within the first pillar. Liam Kennedy asked Manuel Pedro Baganha of FEFSS about these changes and how they will affect the fund
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Features
Asset managers look beyond TFR
If TFR is unattractive for most asset managers, where are they looking for opportunities? Liam Kennedy investigates
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News
SWIP loses another key player
[10:39 CEST 29-06] UK - Chris Walker, managing director for international business at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has “left to pursue other interests”, the company has confirmed.
