Analysis
Leader of the supertanker
01 Feb 2012
ABP transformed itself in 2008 when it spun off APG to become an independent
pension asset manager that could also manage assets for external pension funds.
Back to business
01 Feb 2012
In the April 2010 edition of IPE, I wrote on these pages about my amusement that active managers always think it’s “a great time for active management”. I thought that uncertainties around the...
Pawns in need of a knight
01 Feb 2012
Eastman Kodak retirees, both present and future, would appear to be in need of a hero. They will be wringing their hands over the news that the company filed for bankruptcy protection in late...
A different world
01 Feb 2012
Now we have reached the ripe old age of 15, IPE has achieved a fairly good perspective on things. Back in February 1997 when we published our first issue, e-mail was a novelty and hand-held computing ...
DNB’s new interest-rate average will limit cuts
01 Feb 2012
The Dutch Pension Federation, and the largest pension funds, ABP, PFZW and PMT, cautiously welcomed the pensions regulator’s recent decision to adopt a three-month interest-rate average to calculate...
Sovereign debt crisis hits pension fund results
01 Feb 2012
As pension funds across Europe release their preliminary results for 2011, the issue of
the sovereign debt crisis is likely to dominate. Whether it be a shift in asset allocation – away from the few ...
Revised IORP puts pensions industry on alert
01 Feb 2012
Last month IPE noted that 2012 would be an important year in terms of regulation for pension funds as the industry awaits a White Paper for a revised IORP directive. Needless to say, the first few...
Learning from bailouts
01 Feb 2012
Why do bankers still not get their part in, to use Ken Rogoff’s phrase, the ‘Great Recession’? And what have institutional investors learned from these bailouts? An interesting CFA Institute blog...
Lost in accounting
01 Feb 2012
It looks like 2012 is going to be busy for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) as significant projects towards completion, some affecting pensions accounting.
In the first quarter of ...
Don’t touch Article 18
01 Feb 2012
Investment rules for workplace pension funds should not be harmonised at European level. At least, this is the view aired in several responses to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions...
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