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NewsSocially responsible investment: A fuzzy concept
Philippe Aurain lists four reasons why the usual definition of SRI is unusually slippery.
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When China sneezes... 2014
Beware complacency about the synchronising economics of the world at large, Martin Steward warns.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Soup-kitchen future?
There are increasing forecasts of widespread poverty for Europe’s pensioners in future decades. For a start, there are the 60m citizens in the EU who do not have an occupational scheme. Longevity combined with feeble returns on investment, plus millions of young, non-contributing unemployed people, support the forecast of misery.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Battle of the benefits
Obama’s healthcare reform will be the biggest new law affecting US companies in 2013. But will it have an impact on pension funds? Healthcare and retirement benefits are managed separately, but a change in costs for the former will eventually affect the latter.
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Opinion Pieces
Carl Hitchman, Partner, Hymans Robertson
You have decided that fiduciary management is for you. How then do you go about choosing a suitable manager? While most consultants and managers have been advising on and managing assets for many years, they now overlap in terms of these capabilities, which poses additional challenges. How are fiduciary managers meeting these challenges and structuring themselves to provide clients with the confidence to appoint them?
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Super funds: Financial supermarkets of the future?
Benjie Fraser wonders when Europe might follow in Australia’s footsteps.
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Opinion Pieces
Amin Rajan: 'Pension funds demand discipline, but discipline can stifle hedge funds' creativity'
First, the good news: assets under management in hedge funds have not only surpassed their previous peak of around $2trn (€1.6trn) reached in 2007, but they are also likely to attract another trillion dollars by 2016, according to ‘Institutional Investment in Hedge Funds’, a survey by Citi Prime Finance.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pension uncertainties
Social Security reform was notably absent from the 2012 US presidential campaign.
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NewsEquities: An active decade ahead for investors
AllianceBernstein's Patrick Rudden says the tide is on the turn for active equity investors.
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NewsHedge funds: What's wrong with a 0% return?
Judge hedge funds' diversification benefits by their optionality, not their risk/return.
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NewsUS elections: Polarising politics, heightened uncertainty
Could the election serve as a catalyst, uniting Washington into taking decisive action?
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NewsCorporate defined benefit pension funds are not all equal
Assessing the value of a pension plan in deficit with a weak sponsor company is no easy matter.
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NewsUS economy: On path to recovery no matter who wins
Former Clinton adviser says housing construction, chemical industry especially attractive.
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NewsPensions administration: Setting the record straight
Mark Kirpalani explains how digitisation can help pension funds cope with increased admin.
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NewsEurope: Fragile markets, agile investing
BlackRock's Charles Prideaux on hunting for investment opportunities amid Europe's turmoil.
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NewsThe unbearable lightness of financial literacy
Is the call to improve literacy nothing more than a red herring?
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NewsIrish pensions: A constantly changing landscape
Trustee Decisions' James Kavanagh says now is the time for 'joined-up' thinking in Irish pensions.
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NewsAuto-enrolment: The game-changer?
Will the official launch of auto-enrolment truly represent a 'new dawn' in the UK?
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Opinion Pieces
Flavien Duval, Risk officer, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management
Thousands of reports are produced and distributed to hundreds of people who don’t know what they’re supposed to do with them
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NewsLow yields: What to do when risk-free becomes return-free
Should pension funds de-risk or not? SEI's Ashish Kapur sets out some options to consider.
