You wait a lifetime for proposals to reform the retirement income market, and then suddenly three come along at once.
The risks and returns in your EMD portfolio
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February 17, 2014
The second part of this year's emerging market debt survey looks at the best performing funds over the medium term, and what risks managers see to pension fund portfolios.
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Aberdeen Asset Management
The DC Debate – ensuring value for new savers in 2014
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February 13, 2014
This quarter's DC debate focuses on how to strike the best risk and return balance for defined contribution savers in a fragile but recovering global economy.
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AllianceBernstein, Standard Life Investments, State Street Global Advisors
Editorial: Never mind the Brics...
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February 12, 2014
The stop-start emergence of developing economies and the investment industry that seeks to profit from their growth provides another measure of just how far from the pack a pension fund investor is prepared to stray.
Schemes back diversity to ride out EMD volatility
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February 10, 2014
Scheme investors are trusting diversification and long-term value in emerging markets to weather current volatility, as Pensions Expert’s emerging market debt survey again picks Mexico as the most attractive nation in which to invest.
Managers pick best value EMD countries for 2014
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February 10, 2014
For those who desired an object lesson in asset correlation and the worth of diversification under pressure, emerging markets have delivered.
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Aberdeen Asset Management
The Review: How emerging market volatility hits your EMD portfolio
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February 6, 2014
Video: In this first edition of The Review, Insight's Colm McDonagh and Towers Watson's Ed Britton discuss the impact of recent emerging market volatility on pension funds' sovereign debt holdings, and assess value in the market (5:43).
Editorial: Floating a balloon
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February 5, 2014
With the momentum, if not the life, sucked out of the government's scheme quality proposals – the charges cap taking the lion's share of attention – it has understandably sought to turn attention to its defined ambition plans.
How to build the pension income builder
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February 3, 2014
News analysis: Industry experts have been exploring how the government’s preferred risk-sharing scheme design could work in practice, whether through a not-for-profit, mutual or insurance provider set-up.
Editorial: Wisdom (outside) of the crowd
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January 29, 2014
Consensus can sometimes feel like the wind that blows this industry along, carrying the latest products from scheme to scheme as managers try to meet common challenges.