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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A vision for cross-border workers
A former director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP) has proposed a new option for occupational pensions that could help the large number of workers whose careers take them across EU internal borders.
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Guest Viewpoint: Peter Kraneveld - International Pensions Adviser
Pension funds are not about politics, but their investment portfolios include political risk
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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: Block out the financial noise
If there is one thing the Brexit referendum proved without doubt, it is how difficult people find it to resist confirmation bias
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Features
Pension funds should review LDI strategies
Several UK asset managers that specialise in liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies have underperformed their benchmarks this year. This has put a strain on their pension scheme clients’ funding deficits at the worst possible time
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Have an affair or see a therapist?
An estranged couple, frustrated by their sex life, face a hard choice: have an affair or see a therapist and commit to renewing their relationship.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pensions dreamland?
The two presidential candidates disagree on everything except on Social Security, the US federal programme that guarantees basic pension benefits
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Weighty in-tray for new CMU commissioner
Valdis Dombrovskis has assumed responsibility as commissioner in charge of the flagship Capital Markets Union project. But he has also assumed the added complication of the withdrawal of the UK
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Ros Altmann - Former UK pensions minister
“It is time the authorities addressed the serious side effects of monetary policy on UK pensions”
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: A world (nearly) on fire
The passion of the Brexiters, Donald Trump supporters and the far right in many countries is a wake-up call for those who think that all is well with globalisation.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Posted worker woes
It will not be the first time that proposed revisions to EU rules affecting finance and pensions get stuck in a logjam between interests groups
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: De-risking threatened
Corporate America is looking at the impact of the Pundt, Edward vs Verizon Communications case after the Supreme Court awarded victory to the retirees
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Dan Waters - ICI Global
“Easier, cheaper fund distribution would help build stronger capital markets”
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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
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Features
Stop blaming foreigners
Recent weeks have seen some nasty exchanges over the causes of Europe’s economic plight
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Features
Europe is already one economy
In the midst of the 2012 euro-zone crisis, American economist Fred Bergsten called the euro-zone a “half-built house”. In an outspoken article in the September/October 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine he argued that, to solve the crisis, the flawed institutional design of the euro-zone had to be improved.
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Absolutely no excuses
The big US proxy fights – at Chevron, Exxon and Southern Company – over resolutions to publish 2°C climate change stress tests happened in May. Did common sense prevail?
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Tax targeting continues
Pressure to clean up the financial sector has led to copious legislation from Brussels.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: No clarity on hedgies
Not all pension funds are abandoning hedge funds. And the ones that are could be making the same mistake that investors often make – basing decisions on the past.
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Alfred Gohdes - Willis Towers Watson
“The cost for a German young person to provide for a pension has roughly tripled since 2008”
