All Consultants articles – Page 8
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OpinionWhen knowledge is power: how to manage your advisers
Advisers' day-to-day engagement with the pensions world, together with their qualifications, mean that their pensions knowledge should be second to none. But does that make them powerful?
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News
Is groupthink at play on your trustee board?
A desire for conformity could stifle debate in trustee meetings, new research has suggested, but industry experts say lay trustees are encouraged to challenge the status quo.
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How can we reassure trustees on the more complex aspects of delegated investing?
Roundtable: William Parry from Buck Consultants, HR Trustees’ Giles Payne, Russell Investments’ David Rae, Ralph McClelland from Sackers and Towers Watson’s Pieter Steyn, consider the more difficult elements of fiduciary management, in the second part of this roundtable series.
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OpinionAnd now for the weather...
From the blog: I described in a previous blog a game of epic procrastination that pension schemes like to play: Not Today, Tomorrow Better!
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Opinion
Johnson: Pension ostriches need a shakeup
Letter: Robert Gardner’s excellent article 'Collective response to an unprecedented problem' screams 'unsustainable': something has got to give. The question is what?
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Defying criticism: The other burden of being a lay trustee
Any Other Business: Lawyers, actuaries, professional trustees. The world of pensions is so full of highly specialised roles it can seem bizarre so much of the decision-making comes down to elected trustees who may have no experience with pensions.
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OpinionWhy the pension consultancy market is a true oligopoly
From the blog: “Investment consultants have contributed to the poor performance of UK employer-backed pension funds by offering the same advice at the same time,” asserted a recent article in the Financial Times. And I could not agree more.
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OpinionScheme fragmentation more stark in private sector than public
Data Crunch: The appointment last month of Edi Truell as the London Mayor’s new adviser on pensions and investments is part of an initiative, we are told, to amalgamate some of the country’s numerous public sector pension funds and aims to save billions of pounds through greater efficiencies, lower fees and improved returns.
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Opinion
How to get more from your LDI mandates and manager
One of the big challenges for trustees over the past few years has been managing defined benefit funds’ deteriorating funding ratios.
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OpinionSix test points for comparing fiduciary managers
Fiduciary management has been one of the major growth areas in the investment management/consulting industry in recent years, with total market growth of 47 per cent in 2014 alone, according to consultancy KPMG.
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Opinion
Is fiduciary management right for your scheme?
The fast-growing world of fiduciary management can be a controversial topic for pension schemes.
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OpinionWhy schemes should seek real fiduciary management
What observations can we make as fiduciary management in the UK gets ready to take off its training wheels, with early adopters having racked up a few years' experience and an ever-increasing acceptance of the model among UK pension plans?
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Opinion
How a secondary market is starting to change fid man
The fiduciary management market in the UK has developed strongly over recent years. Estimates point to an annual growth rate of around 30 per cent over the past five years, with the UK market now having reached more than £70bn in assets.
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News
Leicestershire to commit entire credit portfolio to direct lending
Leicestershire Pension Fund plans to move its entire credit portfolio into direct lending as it makes a further £100m investment in an asset class increasingly targeted by yield-starved pension funds.
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Opinion
How to run a beauty parade to find the best adviser for your scheme
Any other business: The time comes when every scheme needs to hire new advisers. But in an industry with such a diverse range of skills, how can you be sure you are hiring the right one?
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Opinion
What are the relative strengths of asset managers and delegated consultants?
Barnett Waddingham’s Simon Cohen, Buck Consultants’ Brian McCauley, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Carolyn Tavares, Russell Investments’ Shamindra Perera, Sackers’ Stuart O’Brien, and Towers Watson’s Pieter Steyn try to understand the differences between traditional asset management and delegated consultants, in the third of this fiduciary management series.
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Opinion
Does fiduciary management have a transparency problem?
Barnett Waddingham’s Simon Cohen, Buck Consultants’ Brian McCauley, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Carolyn Tavares, Russell Investments’ Shamindra Perera, Sackers’ Stuart O’Brien and Towers Watson’s Pieter Steyn cover transparency of fees and information, in the second part of this fiduciary management debate.
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Is it possible to compare fiduciary managers on performance?
Barnett Waddingham’s Simon Cohen, Buck Consultants’ Brian McCauley, Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Carolyn Tavares, Russell Investments’ Shamindra Perera, Sackers’ Stuart O’Brien and Towers Watson’s Pieter Steyn discuss performance, reporting models and metrics, in the first of a four-part panel debate on fiduciary management.
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Opinion
Trustee education: can training be engaging and insightful?
US president Thomas Jefferson said: "To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education." This has never been more pertinent to schemes.
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Opinion
How to evaluate your investment consultant's impact
Defined benefit trustees are more than ever dependent on their investment consultant to guide them along their journey to full funding, however that might be defined.