All Opinion articles – Page 111

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Informed debate

    2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Over the past six months Pensions Week has been putting effort into driving online debate on the issues that regularly grace these pages.

  • Opinion

    EMD report: how to take advantage of the market dip

    2013-06-24T00:00:00Z

    While emerging market assets have been battered in recent weeks, the debt sell-off could in fact provide added opportunity for pension schemes.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Find someone who's turning

    2013-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Back in 2012, Nigel Waterson, chair of Now Pensions, sat in the Pensions Week studio defending the mastertrust’s one-size-fits-all investment approach.

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    Opinion

    How to avoid a £250,000 data protection fine

    2013-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Schemes and employers should know their obligations when it comes to looking after member information, but legal experts have warned that without proper consideration it could be easy to fall foul of data protection rules.

  • Opinion

    Why 'healthy' life expectancy matters to members

    2013-06-13T00:00:00Z

    Longevity has rooted itself as a near-intractable problem for sponsors of defined benefit pension schemes while at the same time being an apparently good-news story for everyone else.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: A pat on the back?

    2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Well done all. Fifty-six per cent of respondents to this year’s governance survey by the Pensions Regulator – published at the end of last month – feel their governance is “very” effective.

  • Opinion

    The key steps to the best annuity for your members

    2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

    How do you ensure members get the right form of retirement income for them? Premier’s Ray Tang looks at the steps to ensure good member outcomes, in the latest Technical View.

  • Opinion

    How to unlock inflation linkage from long-lease

    2013-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The long-lease property market is starting to diversify beyond supermarkets, opening up further opportunities for schemes to access inflation linkage through domestic real assets

  • Opinion

    Have you underplayed your EMD risks?

    2013-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Emerging market debt has had a busy couple of years for inflows as UK pension schemes pile into the asset class, but the latest entrants could have suffered in recent months.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Greatest prize is pushing DC ahead

    2013-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Last week saw the 14th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards take place at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel.

  • Opinion

    Three models for constructing your investment committee

    2013-06-03T00:00:00Z

    What powers should be devolved to your investment committee? It depends on which model of investment governance you have, argues Muse Advisory’s Anne Kershaw, in the latest Technical View.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Funding – the poor relation?

    2013-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Defined benefit schemes across the country breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the European Commission bowed to increasing pressure and chopped solvency requirements from its upcoming IORP II directive.

  • Opinion

    Circling vultures get mixed reception from consultants

    2013-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Preying on weaker assets, vulture funds offer investors a different approach to property investment. This feature from our The Specialist series investigates whether the risks inherent in this strategy make it a sensible course for pension schemes to take.

  • Opinion

    Infrastructure debt: the long-term alternative?

    2013-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Infrastructure debt funds could be the new bond class, offering pension schemes long-term maturity but with potentially higher yields, finds this feature from our The Specialist investment series.

  • Opinion

    Breaking down the regulator’s 2013 funding statement

    2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Sackers’ Zoë Lynch looks at what the Pensions Regulator’s annual funding statement means for schemes’ contributions, assumptions and recovery plans, in the latest edition of Technical View.

  • Opinion

    CofE scheme ups overseas property to reduce UK bias

    2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Property constitutes 7.5 per cent of the Church of England pension fund’s growth assets, but its faith in overseas markets in particular has led it to target a 10 per cent allocation.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Don’t bank on inflationary cure

    2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Mervyn King was hoping to give people something to smile about in his final economic forecast as the governor of the Bank of England – the kind of understated smile that only slightly stronger-than-expected growth and slightly lower-than-expected inflation can bring out.

  • Opinion

    How real assets fit into your inflation battle

    2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

    With bond-like income and growth potential, how can real assets can help control inflation-linked benefits? The supplement’s big story looks at how schemes are managing this key risk.

  • Opinion

    EC tentative on IORP II deadline amid criticism

    2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

    The European Commission has stepped back from its summer deadline for publishing a new Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision, as more national pension fund associations voice scepticism over its timeframe.

  • Opinion

    Croydon eyes infrastructure as gilt alternative

    2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

    Elusive returns over the past few years have led many pension schemes to look to alternative investments. Croydon Pension Fund is hoping infrastructure will provide the right results over the long term