All Investment articles – Page 114
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Features
The DC Debate – improving retirement income
This quarter's debate sees experts discuss the gender gap, decumulation and illiquidity, as schemes strive to attain the best outcome for members close to retirement age.
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News
How to protect your scheme from liberation scams
Trustees are being warned to prepare robust exit contracts to prevent members claiming future benefits if a pension transfer is deemed a scam.
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News
How Norfolk judges investment fee value
Norfolk Pension Fund underwent third-party benchmarking of its investment management fees earlier this year to ensure value, but has warned against a focus purely on cost over quality.
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News
Manager fee restructure lowers costs for LGPS
Hammersmith and Fulham along with Cardiff are among eight public sector schemes already benefiting from asset managers restructuring fees in response to the consolidation and costs debate.
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Opinion
How to build your infrastructure mandate
There are places to start for pension funds building their infrastructure portfolios, despite a lack of assets and potentially costly bidding processes, explains PIC’s Allen Twyning in this week’s Technical View.
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NewsNotts fund: stable investment ensures performance
Nottinghamshire Pension Fund has advocated a steady state investment strategy to improve efficiencies and reduce costs in the local government sector.
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Opinion
Debating the pros and cons of illiquid assets in DC
F&C’s Julian Lyne warns that schemes should not ignore the very real liquidity risks in alternative assets, even as they hunger for diversification, in this edition of Informed Comment.
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News
Gwynedd presents merger plans to boost returns
News analysis: Gwynedd County Council Pension Fund has taken steps towards establishing a common investment vehicle with other Welsh schemes, as public schemes investigate consolidation to provide savings and higher investment returns.
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NewsDiageo reduces equity hedge funds in strategy shift
Diageo Pension Scheme has reduced its exposure to equity-based hedge funds and increased allocation to other hedge fund strategies alongside its overall derisking framework.
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NewsInfrastructure spurs growth in real asset mandates
Data analysis: Real assets proved popular in the third quarter as European pension schemes looked for inflation protection and long-term stable returns, including a large shift towards infrastructure.
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Opinion
Do schemes understand multi-asset investment?
JLT’s Allan Lindsay, Buck Consultants’ Ciaráan Mulligan, Capital Cranfield’s Jonathan Reynolds and Invesco’s Georgina Taylor discuss schemes’ grasp of the strategy’s place in their portfolios, in part four of PW’s multi-asset investment roundtable.
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Features
PPF widens investment scope to reduce risk
The Pension Protection Fund has targeted a broader range of sophisticated fixed income assets while maintaining a liability-driven investment strategy in order to reduce the fund’s overall risk.
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News
Plumbing scheme ramps up property exposure
The Plumbing and Mechanical Services Industry Pension Scheme is to expand its property investment for the second year running, as investors return to traditional commercial property in their hunt for value.
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Features
Hampshire fund pursues tactical asset allocation
Hampshire Pension Fund has created a new tactical asset allocation portfolio funded from reserves that were temporarily invested in equities.
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Opinion
Editorial: Building understanding
It was about the time that Steve Webb started rapping and holding up sandwich bags that I reflected on what I had learnt at the NAPF conference.
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Opinion
Not all schemes should resist equities’ ‘fatal attraction’
In this week’s Informed Comment, Jupiter’s Charlie Crole and Ian McVeigh ask whether UK schemes’ jettisoning of the stock market has gone too far, and which schemes could still benefit.
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News
LPFA adopts ALM to boost investment dynamism
The London Pensions Fund Authority is in the process of developing an asset-liability model the scheme hopes will improve its dynamic approach to risk and investments.
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NewsWarburtons sees 2.3% opt-out after comms drive
At just 2.3 per cent Warburtons has seen one of the lowest opt-out rates reported following a communications campaign that included personally contacting each employee that requested a form to leave the scheme.
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News
Pip targets 'money in the ground' by year-end
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform is expecting to have made its first investments by the end of this year, as manager selection comes to a close, according to one of its founding members.
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News
The Pensions Trust eyes alternative hedging assets
The Pensions Trust has said it aims to have 20 per cent of its liabilities hedged by March 2014, as it works to build a portfolio of alternative, good-value, matching assets that will better hedge liabilities.