All articles by Trevor Cook – Page 2
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Special Report
The future for responsible investment
It has been a fascinating autumn for those that believe in responsible investment. There have been so many developments, there has hardly been time to catch your breath. Granada, and BSkyB are just two examples of UK companies whose governance has been heavily questioned and indeed influenced. In the Netherlands ...
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Features
The future for hedge funds
There are some expressions you read about in magazines and hear regularly at conferences these days that most people had never heard of a few years ago. One such expression now heard regularly is: “the search for alpha”. Another is: “absolute return investing for pension funds”. Even now, few of ...
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Features
The private equity world
The private equity world sometimes moves at a different pace to the rest of the investment world. The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (interestingly still best know by the abbreviation of its old name – EVCA) has just published (in its mid- September newsletter) a summary of the ...
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Features
More returns without increasing risk?
Amid greater longevity and falling stock markets risk management has become a much more important issue for pension funds than ever before. However, different pension funds are tackling the problem or having the problem tackled for them in very different ways. Whilst a number of well resourced companies remain firmly ...
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Features
Slaughtering herds
It’s that time of year again when we ask ourselves – just what investment policies and strategic asset allocation decisions make sense in today’s market? The problem is that we are asking ourselves that question rather too often lately. Unfortunately, we don’t appear to have much in the way of ...
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Features
The standardisation of Europe
One of more comforting features of pension funds around Europe is their national differences but with the forthcoming adoption of International Accounting Standards this is likely to change. This change will arise as the European Union has adopted a regulation requiring publicly traded companies in the European Union to apply ...
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Features
Time for liability-driven benchmarks
We are all told early on in pensions investment theory that you can’t invest without incurring risk and that, indeed, you have to accept risk to achieve reward. Now, after years of investing in the equity market, apparently without risk, as returns rolled in without having to worry , it ...
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Features
Private equity comes of age
Is private equity beginning to grow up and graduate from being a fringe asset class to being accepted as a fully fledged member of the investment community? The fact that it is now going through some performance problems is almost reassuring in itself. There was, for some years, a concern ...
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Grasping the retirement age nettle
Many companies and their employees have begun to realise over the last few years that pensions have become increasingly expensive to provide. The answer of most corporate employers has either been to increase contributions and/or to reduce benefits. But there is another solution which really requires action from governments and ...
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The outlook for private equity
Only a few months ago, European venture capitalists were becoming increasingly gloomy about the prospect of an economic upturn. The starkest evidence was provided in August in the UK in Deloitte & Touche’s third-quarter Private Equity Confidence Survey. Of the 770 venture capitalists surveyed, 80% of respondents expected the UK ...
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