All Opinion articles – Page 112
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The key steps to the best annuity for your members
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.
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Editorial: A pat on the back?
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.
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Have you underplayed your EMD risks?
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.
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How to unlock inflation linkage from long-lease
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
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Editorial: Greatest prize is pushing DC ahead
Last week saw the 14th annual Pension and Investment Provider Awards take place at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel.
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Three models for constructing your investment committee
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.
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Infrastructure debt: the long-term alternative?
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.
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Circling vultures get mixed reception from consultants
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.
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Editorial: Funding – the poor relation?
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.
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Breaking down the regulator’s 2013 funding statement
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.
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Croydon eyes infrastructure as gilt alternative
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
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EC tentative on IORP II deadline amid criticism
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.
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How real assets fit into your inflation battle
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.
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Editorial: Don’t bank on inflationary cure
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.
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CofE scheme ups overseas property to reduce UK bias
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.
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10 years of LDI – how it can benefit your scheme
While the idea that pension fund cash flows could be matched by bonds is not itself new, the explosion of credit markets has created new instruments with which we can build even more precise hedges.
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Pip battles into infra market to drive down fees
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform is moving closer towards establishing a framework for how investments will be managed and allocated, but the route to launch has been peppered with challenges, finds this report from our The Specialist series.
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What happened to the ‘E’ part of ESG?
Environmental investing has had a difficult few years, and is often outweighed by governance considerations, as the latest edition of Investment Indicators examines.
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Letter to the editor: Why the NAPF should reconsider social housing
Opinion: Investment provider C4H’s Adam Sampson sets out why he feels the NAPF’s stance on social housing should be reconsidered, in this letter to the editor.
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Editorial: Repairing the roof in the rain
Last week’s Queen’s Speech targeted “two of the major problems of our time” – state care and pension provision.