All Opinion articles – Page 101
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OpinionEditorial: Switching it up
Change is compelling. For a scheme whose fund manager’s performance is starting to flag it not only seems the obvious choice, but arguably one that is demanded by fiduciary duty.
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Why schemes waste money switching managers too often
In this week’s Informed Comment, Affiliated Managers Group’s Andrew Dyson explains why pension funds should not “react hastily” to medium-term underperformance.
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Why auto-enrolment is only half the job
By the end of this decade the most significant change to our pension system in more than a hundred years will have been effected.
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How integrated payrolls can slash admin time
One of the many challenges faced by any pension payroll provider is data exchange with the scheme administrator.
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OpinionThe risks and returns in your EMD portfolio
Short-term losses, medium-term gains. The graph at the bottom shows the returns of 20 EMD funds held by UK pension schemes, and the recent story of the asset class is clear to see.
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OpinionEditorial: Your puzzle awaits
You wait a lifetime for proposals to reform the retirement income market, and then suddenly three come along at once.
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OpinionThe DC Debate – ensuring value for new savers in 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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The crucial risk factors influencing your hedging decision
Interest rates are anchored at extremely low levels, reflecting monetary easing measures undertaken by central banks globally.
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Five steps to set up your fid man contract
Muse Advisory’s Anne Kershaw runs through the five stages of setting up a fiduciary management mandate that will provide value and security for scheme members, in this week’s Technical Comment.
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PPF: How we slashed assessment times with data push
Ever since the Pension Protection Fund opened its doors for business, one of the burning issues has been how to speed up the assessment process, reduce costs and get a better deal for both our members and our levy payers.
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OpinionEditorial: Never mind the Brics...
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.
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Managers pick best value EMD countries for 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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A scheme guide to pension liberation
Many trustees will currently be dealing with transfer requests from members where they suspect the receiving scheme is involved with pension liberation.
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Why the AIFMD boosts the case for hedge funds
Lyxor’s Cyrus Amaria argues last year’s directive on alternative investments should remove some of the traditional barriers to pension funds investing in hedge funds, in this edition of Informed Comment.
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Nest: the challenges we face in 2014
We have come a long way over the past year, with huge increases in both workers enrolled into Nest and employers signing up.
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OpinionEditorial: Floating a balloon
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.
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Spotlight on mastertrust governance intensifies
As more of the UK’s workers are set to be auto-enrolled into multi-employer workplace schemes this year, the industry’s focus has turned to ensuring these schemes are fit for purpose.
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Top five challenges facing DB schemes
The NAPF’s 2013 annual survey showed 12 per cent of private sector defined benefit schemes remained open to new members.
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Is your scheme prepared for a deflation hit?
Threadneedle’s Leigh Harrison explores the prospect of deflation in global economies and what the impact would be on schemes, in this edition of Informed Comment.
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Building your tactical asset allocation strategy
UK pension schemes are not the most active of asset allocators.