All Opinion articles – Page 100
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Opinion
How can schemes usefully combine different smart beta strategies?
Aon Hewitt's Tim Giles, Axa IM's Madeline Forrester, Nick Motson from Cass Business School, LGIM's Simon Midgen, the PPF's John St. Hill and Russell Indexes' Jamie Forbes discuss how to use smart beta strategies together, in the final part of a four-part discussion.
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Checking the price tag: evaluating the charges obsession
Data analysis: The Budget reforms signal an age of greater plurality in retirement possibilities for members.
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Kingfisher reviews its DC set-up to meet newfound flexibilities
Kingfisher Pension Scheme is planning to review member outcomes as it looks to make sure its default fund fits with the greater at-retirement flexibility opened up by the Budget.
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How to predict member outcomes in the new normal
Myriad products could help grow pension savers’ assets following the Budget changes, but caution is recommended.
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A scheme guide to swaps, swaptions and all things LDI
Axa IM’s Jonathan Crowther gives a ground-up description of the derivatives that liability-driven investment managers use to mitigate against key funding risks, in the latest edition of Technical Comment.
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Bee: Why I was pleased and horrified by the Budget changes
Talking head: Steve Bee argues the pensions changes announced in the Budget, while welcome, prove the pensions system is “very fragile”, while collective pensions make it even more complex for ordinary people.
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In defence of the regulator’s DC code, six months on
In the latest edition of Informed Comment, Mercer’s Rachel Brougham mounts a robust defence of the quality features enshrined in the Pensions Regulator’s DC code.
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Has the shine come off emerging markets? Five key charts
Apparently so, according to a report released this week by Create Research and Principal Global Investors. Emerging markets have been plagued with underperformance for years and were hit especially hard when the US Federal Reserve announced its plans to begin tapering its quantitative easing programme.
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OpinionEditorial: Guidance without the notes
It is hard to imagine, but not long ago there was a time of blissful ignorance when the industry was not obsessed with the words ‘guidance guarantee’.
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Pressure swells against providers delivering guidance guarantee
Which? has struck the latest blow against pensions providers wishing to deliver the guidance guarantee unveiled in this year’s Budget.
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Good times ahead? Private sector employees up contributions
In numbers that will be pleasing reading for the pensions minister,Scottish Widows’ Retirement Report 2014 has found workers are saving more of their earnings for retirement. The average contribution for employees of companies with more than 250 staff is now 11.6 per cent.
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Nest: Scale has given us an ‘internal market’ for DC assets
Talking head: Nest’s CIO Mark Fawcett describes how the scheme has been able to use its growing scale to reduce its investment costs, as well as effectively transacting between different scheme members.
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Regulator unveils long-awaited DB code of practice
The Pensions Regulator has today released a defined benefit code of practice that emphasises the importance of trustees and employers working together as a big happy family.
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Why now is not the time to doubt emerging markets
In the latest Informed Comment, Muzinich’s Warren Hyland argues that despite geopolitical tensions and emerging market elections, company fundamentals and country demographics support an argument for EM debt.
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How to encourage scheme member representation
Quantum Advisory’s Phil Farrell looks at how pension schemes can improve scheme member representation and in doing so boost their scheme governance, in the latest edition of Technical Comment.
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OpinionEditorial: Education v condescension
Mext week we will start to publish in print, and later online, a roundtable discussion on exchange traded funds and the role that they can play in pension scheme portfolios.
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Why a lack of detail is holding up the defined ambition debate
Today, the Queen set out the government's legislative plan. Pensions were expected to take centre stage, with proposals for collective defined contribution schemes expected to be announced.
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How to get scheme data up to scratch for a buy-in/buyout
PIC’s Matt Gore makes the argument for all schemes getting their data up to scratch to improve the security of member benefits, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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DB-DC transfer uncertainty compounds schemes’ demographic challenge
In the latest edition of Technical Comment, Towers Watson’s Sadie Hayes discusses how the maturing of defined benefit scheme liabilities has been complicated by the Budget reforms.
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NAPF: A pathway to meet today’s funding challenges
Talking head: The NAPF’s Paul Lee discusses the central funding challenges facing defined benefit pension funds, and how managers and trustees are addressing them.