All Opinion articles – Page 103
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OpinionEditorial: Picking up the scraps
Much has been made of the gains available for pension schemes willing to buy those assets that banks – constrained by tougher capital requirements – are less able to access.
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OpinionRegulator sets AE lesson with first non-compliance report
Editor's blog: The Pensions Regulator has issued a report on how it resolved non-compliance with auto-enrolment by soft-furnishings company Dunelm, the watchdog keen to set an example for future employers.
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How to access frontier markets at an affordable level of risk
In the latest edition of Technical Comment, RisCura’s Andrew Slater looks at how schemes can get value from frontier markets in Africa, as investor sentiment shifts away from developed markets.
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Why there is currently not enough infra debt to go around
JPMorgan Asset Management’s Bob Dewing argues there are not currently enough infrastructure debt assets to go around, but that should change, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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How is the role of fixed income changing?
Fixed income is no longer simply a matching or diversifying asset for pension schemes. Pan Trustees' Andrew Cheeseman, Towers Watson's Ed Britton, M&G's Richard Ryan, Aviva Investors' Dan James, GSAM's Jeremy Cave and PiRho's Nicola Ralston look at how its role has changed.
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OpinionFixed income: liquidity, multi-credit and performance
A panel of experts debate the potential and limitations of multi-asset credit, and how fixed income assets are performing, as well as their risks for pension schemes, in this four-part roundtable.
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PPF: What our levy work means for your scheme
Talking head: Ahead of a May consultation on the changes to its levy framework, the Pension Protection Fund’s David Taylor discusses the organisation’s plans for judging sponsor insolvency.
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OpinionEditorial: Here's the choice you wanted
To annuitise or not to annuitise? The debate rumbles on, with successive reports predicting a fair deal of doom for the vendors of the old normal.
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A blueprint for pre-retirement comms to spur good decisions
In this week’s Technical Comment, Scottish Life’s Fiona Tait looks at how pension schemes can communicate with their members to help them achieve a secure and sustainable retirement income.
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Why high SME opt-out concerns are groundless
Talking head: Steve Bee seeks to dispel concerns that a much higher proportion of auto-enrolled workers at smaller employers will reject their new benefit and so undermine workplace pensions reform.
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Fund of funds is ‘riddled with flaws’
Russell’s Christophe Caspar argues that while fund-of-fund investment is not dead yet, it is beset by problems – in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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OpinionEditorial: A fair fight?
The “saver’s Budget” sounded a starting bell in the frankly lethargic DC investment market – which default strategy would win the argument and, more importantly, the flows?
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What overseas DC systems can tell us about the post-Budget landscape
The retirement flexibility brought about by the Budget has left many schemes wondering how to best implement the at-retirement options.
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What drives performance in fixed income, and how are assets faring?
Pan Trustees' Andrew Cheeseman, Towers Watson's Ed Britton, M&G's Richard Ryan, Aviva Investors' Dan James, GSAM's Jeremy Cave and PiRho's Nicola Ralston discuss where there is value in fixed income markets.
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Nest: Meeting the challenges scale brings
Talking head: As its membership hits 1m, Nest CEO Tim Jones reflects on the challenges presented by the state-sponsored pension scheme’s ever-expanding scale.
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Confronting the less-discussed downsides of TDFs
LGIM’s Emma Douglas considers some of the downsides of target date funds for defined contribution scheme members, and how they can be addressed, in this week’s Informed Comment.
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How to protect your scheme from rising interest rates
In this edition of Technical Comment, M&G Investments’ Bernard Abrahamsen makes a pitch for a bond portfolio that is better protected against rises in interest rates.
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OpinionEditorial: For the data controller (that's you)
While it may not receive the same frenzied attention as pension liberation, or hold the excitement of stewarding a growth portfolio, data protection is clearly of critical importance.
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NAPF: Top of the DB regulatory agenda
Talking head: The NAPF’s Helen Forrest runs through the most important regulatory changes facing defined benefit pension scheme decision-makers – including unintended consequences of the Budget’s retirement reforms.
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A blueprint for designing the DC growth phase
In this week’s Technical Comment, Schroder’s David Heathcock marks out the investment consensus that aims at a “smoother ride” for scheme members, rather than accepting greater volatility in the hunt for long-term returns.