All Opinion articles – Page 104
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Opinion
Data security cannot just be a box-ticking exercise
ITS’s Janet Branagh argues fines of as much as £500,000 and even potential imprisonment should focus scheme trustees’ minds on how to make sure their member data are properly protected, in the latest edition of Informed Comment.
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Are schemes' liquidity requirements changing in fixed income?
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 how important liquidity is to pension schemes' fixed income portfolios.
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Why your biggest investment risk is ignoring your liabilities
Talking head: Investment columnist Rob Gardner looks at whether equities or bonds are looking better value for UK pension funds, and argues context is vital.
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OpinionEditorial: What you wish for
Last year in this column I asked the pensions minister to “go big or go home” on the charges cap, arguing that only a 0.75 per cent level – rather than 1 per cent – would justify the regulatory burden.
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How to protect property investment value against rate rises
The Financial Times recently reported UK pension funds selling gilts and corporate bonds and investing in private markets to “protect their portfolios from any widening of spreads in fixed income markets and to benefit from future rises in interest rates”.
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Which schemes are suited to a multi-asset credit approach?
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 how larger and smaller schemes could construct a multi-asset credit portfolio.
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Why trustees are caught in the middle on pension liberation
In this week’s edition of Informed Comment, Hogan Lovells’ Jill Clucas argues scheme trustees are between a rock and a hard place on battling pension liberation, and looks for a solution.
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What assets have been substituted for low-yielding gilts in LDI programmes?
Barker Tatham's Steve Barker, PTL's Richard Butcher, Spence's Marian Elliott, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, Axa Investment Managers' Jonathan Crowther and Redington's Dan Mikulskis discuss LDI asset allocation.
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OpinionEditorial: Like a wrecking ball
Well, you'd be lying if you said you saw it coming. The most fundamental change to pension saving in a generation was a controversial intervention in the evolution of defined contribution pension schemes.
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What innovations are currently being seen in the liability-driven investment market?
Barker Tatham's Steve Barker, PTL's Richard Butcher, Spence's Marian Elliott, Legal & General Investment Management's Laura Brown, Axa Investment Managers' Jonathan Crowther and Redington's Dan Mikulskis discuss emerging best practice.
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Opinion
How to pick assets for active management
In this edition of Informed Comment, Buck’s Ciaran Mulligan assesses the uncertain benefits of active management, and where it can provide value for schemes.
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The latest on reconciling GMPs and how it affects your scheme
Aries’ Ian Neale gives scheme managers an update on reconciling guaranteed minimum pension entitlements and how schemes are coping with the issue, in this edition of Technical Comment.
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Opinion
Webb: tide finally turning on retirement saving
Figures released last week from the Office for National Statistics indicate that after decades of decline, the tide is finally turning and people are embracing pension saving.
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OpinionEditorial: Take the weight
There has been much discussion within these comment pages over recent years about the importance of driving up scheme quality in defined contribution schemes.
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Regulator: our call to AE action
Talking head: The Pensions Regulator’s Charles Counsell urges smaller employers not to leave their auto-enrolment obligations to the last minute, saying now is “no time for complacency”.
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Risk Transfer Index: March 2014
Data analysis: Equity market performance and gilt stability could make it better value for schemes to lock in any funding gains, according to market commentators.
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Opinion
A scheme guide to changing longevity risk
In the latest Technical View, the Biogerontology Research Foundation’s Alex Zhavoronkov lays out the latest factors affecting longevity and how schemes and insurers are tackling it.
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Opinion
Why the reg’s DC code is near impossible for lay trustees
PMI president Paul Couchman takes aim at the regulatory burden of the new defined contribution code on lay trustees in particular, and argues it is “highly likely” more than one in four schemes are non-compliant, in this week’s Informed Comment.
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OpinionEditorial: Undercutting the 'cartel'
How to achieve the right asset mix was the perennial question dominating last week’s NAPF conference in Edinburgh. So where should trustees focus in order to meet their current and future liabilities?
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Opinion
AE collaborations are a cop-out
In the latest Informed Comment Pension Playpen’s Henry Tapper scrutinises auto-enrolment provider-consultant collaborations.