All Special Report articles – Page 110
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The risk sharing revolution
Risk sharing pension schemes offer the ability for employers to control their pension costs while providing a better deal for members than defined contribution arrangements. But have too many corporate fingers been burnt by the cost and liabilities involved in offering defined benefit plans? Ian Farr asks whether compnaies can ...
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Special ReportSqueezing the life out of DB pensions
Are tightening pension funding regulations throttling Europe’s defined benefit (DB)pension plans? Is a threat to extend Solvency II to pension funds the final nail in their coffin? IPE readers give their verdict.
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Special ReportTrying to play a longer game
Two asset managers and a pension fund discuss their priorities with Charles Neilan and explain their views on longer term asset management mandates
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Special ReportWorking in an unwelcoming environment
Although the pension consulting market is still very small, competition is fierce, Charles Neilan finds
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Assessing the key factors
Michael Atzwanger explains the current issues affecting the Italian pension fund industry
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End of the line for quants?
After facing pressure during the 2007 sub-prime crisis, David White reports on the future for the quantative approach to investing
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Special ReportThe inexorable shift to DC
The move away from DB is a trend throughout Europe but the speed at which it occurs and the models adopted differ from country to country, Rachel Fixsen finds
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Measuring a carbon footprint
Environmental information about investments is being used in portfolio analysis, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Signing up to carbon disclosure
The Carbon Disclosure Project is striving to make all pension funds aware of carbon issues. Nina Röhrbein reports
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Avoiding teenage growing pains
With their first flush of youth now over, many of the Danish pension funds created in the 1990s should be thinking about broadening their investment horizons beyond the home market. PensionDanmark is taking a lead in looking global. Brendan Maton spoke to Torben Möger Pedersen, the fund’s CEO
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Special ReportThe inexorable rise of India
This report was researched and compiled by Christopher Hindle and Marie Verpilleux of Global Business Reports
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Special ReportPhasing in changes
A reform package due to be implemented later this year will reduce the burden on the state pension system but falls short of adding a second pillar, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Special ReportBringing in the euro
Some Cypriot funds have been using this year’s euro accession to professionalise their portfolios, finds George Coats
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Special ReportSqueezed from all sides
Rachel Fixsen reviews the regulatory pressures facing European pension funds
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Special ReportRestoring trust in credit rating agencies
Charles Cronin says that credit rating agencies must rebuild investors’ confidence in the way they rate structured products
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Special ReportOvercoming a blinkered mindset
Guy Fraser-Sampson argues that despite the attractions of private equity as an asset class, many pension funds will be tempted by sub-optimal strategies
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Special ReportPolling the placement agents
Iain Morse examines the role of placement agents in the private equity market
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Special ReportInvestors in people
Nina Röhrbein examines a fund that sees a strong correlation between human capital management, productivity, financial results and stock performance
