All Opinion articles – Page 95
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Tackling auto-enrolment's SME challenge as capacity shrinks
Auto-enrolment is a testing experience for many employers and presents a steep learning curve for everyone involved.
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Altmann: Exceptional measures needed as monetary policy tightens
Speaking to pension trustee boards, they are clearly grappling with the challenges of managing their investment strategy in today’s exceptional times.
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Six key graphs on the regulator's uphill task on scheme data
The Pensions Regulator last week released its annual record-keeping survey, which once again showed smaller schemes were falling behind their larger counterparts.
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OpinionEditorial: Emerging versus frontier markets
Emerging market advocates are finding that where there were once believers, there are now sceptics, cynics and outright deserters.
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OpinionAdmit it: social impact investing is done for the social impact
Editor's blog: There has been a flurry of stories this month on local authority pension funds allocating to investments that target a positive social or environmental impact, giving a shot in the arm for proponents of activist investment.
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Schemes ploughed £24bn into gilts last year despite low yields
Pension schemes compelled last year to derisk at historically low yields quadrupled the previous year’s gilt purchases, according to official data that have left investment experts surprised.
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How to predict member outcomes in the new normal
Myriad products could help grow pension savers’ assets following the Budget changes, but caution is recommended.
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Kingfisher reviews its DC set-up to meet newfound flexibilities
Kingfisher Pension Scheme is planning to review member outcomes as it looks to make sure its default fund fits with the greater at-retirement flexibility opened up by the Budget.
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Checking the price tag: evaluating the charges obsession
Data analysis: The Budget reforms signal an age of greater plurality in retirement possibilities for members.
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OpinionSmart beta: Latest strategies, cost and market performance
This four-part roundtable discussion, featuring experts from across the industry, looks at the emergence of smart beta strategies and the role they are playing in pension scheme portfolios.
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Where are the latest smart beta innovations coming from?
In the second of a four-part discussion, Aon Hewitt's Tim Giles, Axa IM's Madeline Forrester, Nick Motson from Cass Business School, LGIM's Simon Midgen, the PPF's John St. Hill and Russell Indexes' Jamie Forbes discuss the latest smart beta strategies.
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What costs should schemes expect to incur from smart beta strategies?
In the third part of a four-part discussion, Aon Hewitt's Tim Giles, Axa IM's Madeline Forrester, Nick Motson from Cass Business School, LGIM's Simon Midgen, the PPF's John St. Hill and Russell Indexes' Jamie Forbes discuss smart beta fees.
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How can schemes usefully combine different smart beta strategies?
Aon Hewitt's Tim Giles, Axa IM's Madeline Forrester, Nick Motson from Cass Business School, LGIM's Simon Midgen, the PPF's John St. Hill and Russell Indexes' Jamie Forbes discuss how to use smart beta strategies together, in the final part of a four-part discussion.
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Should schemes adopt smart beta in periods of market growth?
In the first of a four-part debate, Aon Hewitt's Tim Giles, Axa IM's Madeline Forrester, Nick Motson from Cass Business School, LGIM's Simon Midgen, the PPF's John St. Hill and Russell Indexes' Jamie Forbes discuss whether positive markets signal a good time to buy smart beta.
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Risk Transfer Index: June 2014
Data analysis: With gilt yields falling it has been a confusing period for investors – but what does it mean for derisking?
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In defence of the regulator's DC code, six months on
It is now six months since the Pensions Regulator’s final defined contribution code of practice and regulatory guidance were published.
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Bee: Why I was pleased and horrified by the Budget changes
I was very pleased by the pension changes that were announced in this year’s Budget – but seem to be in a minority of one in that I was horrified by it all too.
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A scheme guide to swaps, swaptions and all things LDI
Swaps are now an established part of the toolkit available to manage pension scheme investment risk.
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Has the shine come off emerging markets? Five key charts
Apparently so, according to a report released this week by Create Research and Principal Global Investors. Emerging markets have been plagued with underperformance for years and were hit especially hard when the US Federal Reserve announced its plans to begin tapering its quantitative easing programme.
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OpinionEditorial: Guidance without the notes
It is hard to imagine, but not long ago there was a time of blissful ignorance when the industry was not obsessed with the words ‘guidance guarantee’.