All JPMorgan Asset Management articles – Page 2

  • PLSA Annual Conference 2018
    Opinion

    Three big ideas for better member engagement

    2018-10-19T00:00:00Z

    PLSA Annual Conference 2018: Never before in the history of pensions have so many saved so much by doing so little.

  • Stefan Lundbergh
    Opinion

    Mechanical bulls: the dangers of index capitalism

    2018-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Markets are behaving oddly these days. The ‘term premium’, which reflects the compensation for investing in longer-term debt, is zero in the US and it is inverted globally.

  • Features

    Liquid alternatives: How diversified is your DC default?

    2018-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Analysis: Defined contribution default funds are facing the unenviable task of constructing diversified portfolios with limited budgets and a requirement for liquidity. Could liquid alternatives help?

  • Opinion

    Market Outlook 2018: Storms in the distance?

    2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

    For a bull run that has been thought of as the most hated in history, the years since the global financial crisis have been kind to pension scheme asset values.

  • Sorca Kelly-Scholte
    Opinion

    How negative cash flow will shape DB investments

    2017-12-19T00:00:00Z

    From the blog: If there is one thing UK defined benefit schemes are not paying enough attention to, it’s cash flow. 

  • Getty Images
    News

    Economic gloom overshadows quiet Budget for pensions

    2017-11-22T00:00:00Z

    Autumn Budget 2017: With chancellor Philip Hammond omitting pensions almost entirely from his speech, it was, as Barnett Waddingham senior consultant Malcolm McLean put it, a “steady as you go Budget”.

  • Opinion

    Positive EMD performance: Will it last?

    2017-09-04T00:00:00Z

    EMD survey: More than four years have passed since the taper tantrum, when the US Federal Reserve started to gradually tighten its quantitative easing programme, leading to investor panic and sell-off in some emerging markets.

  • News

    Income security needed to bolster drawdown products

    2017-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Drawdown solutions must be improved to offer pensioners greater certainty that their retirement income will last, a panel of specialists told Pensions Expert last week.

  • Taylor Wimpey builds synthetic equities to tackle volatility
    Features

    Taylor Wimpey builds synthetic equities to tackle volatility

    2017-03-29T00:00:00Z

    The pension scheme of housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has undertaken a widespread derisking programme, strengthening existing hedges while converting physical equity investments into a synthetic, volatility-dampening exposure.

  • Sorca Kelly-Scholte
    Opinion

    How should DB funding be measured?

    2017-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The industry debate raging over how defined benefit liabilities should be measured recently got a boost when post-Brexit government bond yields plumbed new lows. 

  • News

    DB outlook 2017: Investment problems remain as deficits dip

    2017-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Defined benefit deficits worsened during December to an aggregate IAS 19 deficit of £434bn, as experts added sustained low interest rates and cash flow problems to their concerns for pension funds over the course of 2017.

  • Alex Christie
    Opinion

    Negative yields raise fundamental questions

    2016-09-02T00:00:00Z

    From the blog: Severe defined benefit pension funding shortfalls have been made worse by the significant post-Brexit fall in yields, and there are renewed concerns over whether pension trustees are using the full range of weapons in their arsenal to plug the gaps.

  • Opinion

    The final frontier: Promises of EMD performance

    2016-08-17T00:00:00Z

    EMD survey: Performance is what drives investors towards – and at times away from – emerging market debt. For pension funds, the hard numbers count, so how has the asset class fared recently? 

  • LGPS Leadership Briefing
    News

    LGPS calls for details of government intervention

    2016-05-12T00:00:00Z

    Local government pension experts have called on the government to give more details regarding controversial plans to introduce intervention powers for the secretary of state over investment decisions.

  • News

    Three complex investment issues demystified

    2016-03-11T00:00:00Z

    PLSA Investment Conference 2016: Three pensions professionals were each tasked with explaining a complex investment issue in five minutes, demonstrating how things like good value, credit or Brexit can be explained to members.

  • News

    Developed markets show strength as hunt for yield changes course

    2015-10-14T00:00:00Z

    NAPF 2015: Disappointing economic recovery, low inflation and rock-bottom interest rates but rising asset markets are what pension funds can expect over the coming years, JPMorgan’s chief market strategist for the UK and Europe Stephanie Flanders said at the NAPF Annual Conference 2015 on Wednesday.

  • News

    Debt is inextricably linked to 'adequate' retirement incomes

    2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Personal debt is a significant blindspot in the method used for determining 'adequate' retirement incomes, research suggests, as data from overseas show indebtedness will play an increasingly important role in retirees' needs. 

  • Opinion

    The science behind DC redesign

    2015-09-21T00:00:00Z

    DC Investment Quarterly: The introduction of freedom and choice and the charge cap this year marked two profound changes to the defined contribution marketplace, affecting both what DC investment products will be expected to deliver and the limits within which they have to deliver them.

  • Anthony Gould
    Opinion

    Low yields are here to stay... so what happens to pensions?

    2015-09-04T00:00:00Z

    From the blog: Growing evidence suggests the long-term trend for real and nominal growth may be well below that of recent decades.

  • News

    Run affordable risk, say experts

    2015-08-19T00:00:00Z

    Schemes must not run more risk than they can afford, say experts, as UK private sector defined benefit deficits rocket to £900bn.