All Opinion articles – Page 60
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OpinionEmpower DC savers to shape a better future
Climate change must move up the investment agenda, says Redington’s Rob Gardner.
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OpinionWhere to look for value in real assets
Impax Asset Management’s Peter Rossbach explains why pension funds should invest in renewable energy.
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OpinionDone right, re-enrolment can be an auto-enrolment MOT
Nest’s Paul Budgen looks at the opportunities offered by automatic re-enrolment.
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OpinionTrustee liability and black swans
From the blog: The thing about black swans is that until you encounter one, you ignore the possibility that they exist – but in hindsight it’s all too obvious that they do.
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OpinionSelf-employed underdogs?
Editorial: If you ask Uber drivers why they work for the app, they generally reply that while the pay per client is less, there is no downtime between customers and they are free to choose when they want to work.
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OpinionWhat have we learnt from the pensions undersecretary’s first 100 days?
The changes at Westminster following the fateful EU referendum effectively resulted in a new government, including responsibility for pensions. Hopefully this does not signal a return to the revolving door at the Department for Work and Pensions.
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OpinionActivating better DC outcomes
Defined contribution investment should not rely on the up and down of global stock markets alone, says AB’s Karen Watkin.
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OpinionWhat’s behind factor investing
From the blog: With pension funds increasingly embracing risk factor investing, it is essential to ensure a factor premium is supported by empirical analysis, economic rationale and a simple factor definition.
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OpinionPensions for the hashtag generation
From the blog: The ‘millennial’ generation – broadly defined as the cohort born between 1980 and the late 1990s – is now the largest working-age demographic in the UK, and will represent some 75 per cent of the global workforce by 2025.
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OpinionMissing the bigger picture
Editorial: The importance of understanding pensions is well acknowledged by the industry. The need for guidance and advice is a ready source of commentary at any time of year, and the dangers faced by those approaching retirement without sufficient education are rightly the subject of much debate.
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OpinionData crunch: Investors revise fixed income mindsets
Data crunch: Fixed income isn’t so boring anymore, as the low yields force funds to change their strategies, says Spence Johnson’s Magnus Spence.
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OpinionAre we engaged enough?
Shareholder engagement has been shown to be beneficial for those schemes that use it, but are schemes using it enough? Mercer’s Aled Jones takes a closer look.
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Where will fiduciary management go next?
As fiduciary management becomes mainstream and schemes become more comfortable with its uses and limitations, manager offerings will inevitably change. But how can we expect them to evolve? Six experts discuss.
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OpinionMonitoring the sustainability of your scheme’s investments
PTL’s Richard Butcher outlines a process schemes can use to check up on the route and progress of their investments when it comes to sustainability.
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OpinionHow to get defaults and fund choice right for auto enrolment
This month the Department for Work and Pensions calculated that by 2020, 10 million people will start saving, or saving more, due to auto-enrolment. They’ll soon collectively be putting away billions each year, mostly into default funds.
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OpinionClosure cases: How trade unions are changing tack
It is not uncommon to hear of trade unions stepping in to protect defined benefit provision for members, as final salary schemes continue to close. But with a greater focus on defined contribution adequacy, union approaches to closure cases are evolving.
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OpinionBringing pension schemes together
Editorial: The efforts made to outdo each other with yet another game, more champagne or an enormous plastic animal at the stand have reached a new level at the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s Annual Conference this year.
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OpinionThe interview: Lesley Titcomb, chief executive of TPR
In an interview with Pensions Expert, chief executive of the Pensions Regulator Lesley Titcomb gives her views on why the regulator needs greater powers, where scheme consolidation makes most sense, and why the debate around defined benefit should not be had in isolation.
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How easily could fiduciary management be set up for defined contribution?
Now that fiduciary management is a well-established part of the defined benefit pensions market. Could it be expanded into defined contribution? Or are the demands of daily dealing too much? Six experts discuss.
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OpinionHow diversity across the board can upgrade a pension fund’s performance
Kim Newell Chebator from State Street makes the case for greater diversity, highlighting one particular aspect that could help refresh the thinking of pension fund boards.