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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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Opinion Pieces
Joseph Mariathasan: The UK should set up a sovereign wealth fund
Britain faces the prospect of an ageing population with a consequent rise in its dependency ratio, and an economy in decline relative to the rest of the world.
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Opinion Pieces
Can PE save the world?
When private equity players come together to discuss how to be more responsible, that is noteworthy.
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Letter from Brussels: Lack of trust blamed for low savings
While euro-zone household savings, including retirement provision, grew steadily from around €600bn gross savings at the end of the century to a peak of €910bn in 2009, they fell to €834bn by 2011.
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Letter from the US: Colleges count losses
US college and university endowments had the worst returns of any insitutional investor in the year ended 30 June 2012
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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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Long-term Matters: Kay - make your voice heard
The Kay review is the best thing we’ve had on short-termism for decades
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Opinion Pieces
LIBOR litigation looms
US pension funds are still trying to understand the impact of the LIBOR scandal on their assets to assess whether they should launch a class action against the banks involved in the case. The matter is highly complex and could lead to tens of billions of dollars in claims, not just from pension funds but also from cities, states, lenders, insurers and other investors who say they were hurt by the allegedly manipulated rates.
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Letter from Brussels: EU clears the decks
The Brussels legislative programme for the financial sector will be as frenetic as ever from now until early 2013. It is a race to achieve as much as possible before electoral canvassing by MEPs starts ahead of the parliamentary elections in May 2014.
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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.
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NewsDutch elections: An unclear picture of pension reform
Mariska van der Westen explores what the Dutch election results might mean for pensions.
