Pension Fund Strategy – Page 136
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Report: No justification for lack of full disclosure on investment fees
London’s Cass Business School calls for managers to fully disclose all cash, non-cash costs affecting asset performance
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Austria's derivatives cap hindering would-be SRI investors, VBV warns
Severance pay funds call for more flexibility on hedging instruments, real estate investments
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Diversified fund market to double after spike in DB inflows
Investors in funds increasingly looking for alpha, market to grow to £201bn by 2018
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Pension funds recommend diversification in ILS as rates fall
Industry sees no prospect of rates rising from a catastrophic event, but urge investors to look beyond catastrophe risk
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NewsSwiss funds slow to consider variable pension benefits
Many funds may be waiting to test the waters before considering controversial changes to pensioner payouts
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Managers call on peers to take lead on responsible investing
Investment Leaders Group launch report calling for better research on environmental ‘megatrends’
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NewsThree largest Austrian Pensionskassen increase hold on market
Austrian supervisor FMA presents figures on retirement sector showing largest funds account for three-quarters of assets
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European institutions to allocate €211bn to smart beta by 2018
Research finds UK and rest of Europe differ in reasoning for allocations, market dominated by institutional allocations
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IORP II to increase costs in German second pillar, Longial warns
German industry to struggle with European Commission’s definition of IORPs, company says
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UK roundup: TPR, Pensions Act, RetailLink Pensions Plan, L&G
Regulator survey shows DC schemes still ignoring regulations on investment principles
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Wellcome Trust prices £400m bond with maturity of 45 years
Foundation offers tightest spread for non-government related issuer in sterling market since financial crisis
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NewsSwiss first-pillar fund AHV reshuffles fixed income portfolio
Scheme moves into senior loans, high yield and emerging market debt
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Misguided belief in outperformance to blame for bonus culture – academic
Dutch academic says pension funds ‘kidding themselves’ about possibility of outperforming market
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UK travel firm TUI adds to Dutch closure with PIE, shift to DC
TUI Travel offers pensioners incentive to remove future increase, closes Norwegian scheme
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European private equity inflows double, survey shows
Pension funds contribute 37% of 2013 total, according to figures from EVCA
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NewsPension fund for Dutch railways to invest in catastrophe bonds
Scheme cites possibility of ‘relatively high returns against acceptable risk’
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NewsJapan’s Pension Investment Fund expected to ramp up equity exposure
Government Pension Investment Fund thinking to increase domestic equity allocation to 30%, says Nikko AM
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European pension funds warm to LDI as derivative allocations grow
Mercer asset allocation survey shows schemes calling halt to equity exodus on back of bull markets
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Over-regulation 'crushing' trustees, Swiss pension industry warns
Reaction comes after Zurich supervisor calls on regulator to introduce new benchmarks, binding guidelines
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Italy's Laborfonds to review strategic asset allocation of €1.5bn portfolio
Trentino-South Tyrol regional fund to launch manager search after review
