More comment – Page 52
-
Features
Hard to explain
The European Central Bank’s QE programme is taking its toll on pension funds as healthy returns are unable to keep pace with liabilities
-
Features
Private equity: Filling the gap
Substantial fees and the plethora of private equity funds available mean that all but the largest institutional investors need external advice and support
-
Features
Nordic countries: Pension risk takers
The Nordic countries are today home to some of the most innovative pension funds, which one observer believes is in part due to an “engineering mentality”
-
Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Can investors be part of the solution to Brazil's crises?
Investors in Brazil have been largerly absent from the separate crises over water and corruption shaking the country
-
Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Anton van Nunen - Van Nunen & Partners
“Pension funds should be clearly distinguished from insurance companies because their objective is to manage risks, rather than hedge them”
-
Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Bond market scrutiny
There has been a flurry of activity and comment from industry groups on the subject of bond market liquidity
-
Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pensions push on climate change
US pension funds are using the meetings to push forward their agenda on climate change
-
Features
Success (and failure) factors
Most of the success or failure of a pension system can be attributed to design and input factors
-
Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Heribert Karch - German occupational pensions association
Heribert Karch addresses whether the German goverment will be able to introduce the pure defined contribution schemes outlined in its recent pension reform proposals
-
Features
Cashing out
This is the last leader column I will write for IPE, ending six years as its investment editor
-
Features
Regulatory bottleneck
Perhaps the true long-lasting legacy of the 2008-09 financial crisis is a heightened focus on regulation. Although the crisis itself was not sparked by pension funds, they are all too affected by the new wave of rules generated by those events.
-
Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Dear Finance Minister
In March 2015, leading investment consultants gathered at the residence of a leading UK financier to discuss dangerous climate risk. This is a hypothetical letter from one of the participants.
-
Opinion Pieces
Guest viewpoint: Karel Lannoo - Centre for European Policy Studies
Despite years of harmonising regulation and a single currency, Europe’s capital markets remain fragmented
-
Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Uphill battle for CMU
There is enthusiasm for the EU’s capital market union (CMU) project. However, it faces prodigious obstacles in achieving its 2019 deadline.
-
Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Move to put clients first
Who will manage the new My Retirement Account (MyRA) pension savings vehicle? This is a big question for the US pension fund industry now that President Barack Obama has created the new programme.
-
Features
Asset allocation: Where next?
Against the current economic backdrop, trustees and investment committees are unsure which sources of return they should allocate capital to, Liam Kennedy writes
-
Opinion Pieces
Long-term matters: Of herds and bubbles
There is much talk in the investment community of the long term and fundamentals. Yet behaviour remains rather short term in practice
-
Opinion Pieces
Guest viewpoint: Sally Bridgeland - Avida International
“Looking beyond the UK may provide lessons on how maturing pension funds can rework investment governance”
-
Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Alternatives to the Holistic Balance Sheet
Wilfried Mulder and Niels Kortleve outline a two-step approach as an alternative for a harmonised solvency regime for IORPs
-
Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Bumpy road ahead
As far as investment is concerned, the EU faces a turbulent 2015. The efforts of Jean-Claude Juncker are central to arresting the EU economy from its zombie state.
