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Fighting the good fight: Anton van Nunen

Fighting the good fight: Anton van Nunen

Few people can claim to have changed the way their industry operates, but Anton van Nunen is one of them. Working as a consultant in 2001, he came up with a novel investment strategy to help an insurance company client in the Netherlands better manage its portfolio. He called this new concept fiduciary management. Today, 12 years later, some 80% of Dutch pension funds now use his strategy – and its popularity continues to grow across Europe – including here in the UK.

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The Awards 2013 issue

The Awards 2013 issue

News

Waddingham to become Sheriff of London

Waddingham to become Sheriff of London

Barnett Waddingham founding partner Adrian Waddingham is poised to take a year-long sabbatical to become a Sheriff of London.

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LDI market dominated by three providers

LDI market dominated by three providers

Some 90% of the UK liability driven investment (LDI) market is dominated by just three providers, according to research by KPMG.

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Features

Opinion

Paying for it

We all like to excel in our chosen field and sometimes people will go to great lengths to do so, including paying for it. Asset managers, it seems, are no different as data from the Thomson Reuters Extel Survey this week revealed they are continuing to allocate a significant sum of their commission pot to brokers who offer them access to senior company executives.

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QE acts like a drug…

While 2013 should continue to be constructive for growth and inflation assets, G7 economies are still too vulnerable to be taken fully off their policy steroids. Talk of an imminent US ‘tapering off’ in quantitative easing (QE) is misplaced, as coming data will bear out. 

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Friday View

Friday View

June 14 2013

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  • AvatarThere's a new sheriff in town. Adrian Waddingham to become Sheriff of London - http://t.co/defTkQ3bIuyesterday
  • Avatarfriday view: Paying for it, QE acts like a drug, Sector distortions in passive, Inflation expectat... - http://t.co/SKRBJIFWAm5 days ago
  • AvatarTesco's Smith announced as NAPF chairman http://t.co/LQi8SWj6SE #pensions8 days ago
  • AvatarAlan Pickering to chair PI's portfolio masters conference on income. Investors, there is still time to sign up http://t.co/1w069Ox3tn9 days ago
  • Avatarfriday view: No one likes a quitter, Making growth assets work harder, China remains challenging but profit... - http://t.co/C9864AGDy812 days ago
  • AvatarWater, water everywhere... How to tap into this essential resource: http://t.co/DvQJ8Sjuhq15 days ago
  • AvatarFormer IMA chief executive, Richard Saunders, joins Investec board - http://t.co/XlLvhgNhyI16 days ago
  • Avatarfriday view: Don't force the issue, Beyond traditional asset management, New dawn for pensions - http://t.co/NULX2UBGWO19 days ago
  • AvatarTaking the alternative path @seabassc83 talks to Nick Buckmaster at Waltham Forest Pension Fund - http://t.co/vewin15wsK #pensions20 days ago
  • AvatarAnton van Nunen's portfolio institutional awards keynote speech: http://t.co/8UFjS56p2L (note: not for the faint-hearted asset manager)20 days ago
  • AvatarBlackrock reorganises DC business and names ‘CEO’ - http://t.co/Wmz43UKfCD21 days ago
  • Avatarfriday view: Solvency abuse, Eurovision Song Contest and risk parity, Global ageing, Reversing QE, Japan 2013 - http://t.co/suQW3QSZRm26 days ago
  • AvatarEU shelves Solvency II plans for pensions - http://t.co/vDWFY2JuQj27 days ago
  • AvatarFTSE 100 DB schemes could be extinct in under a decade: http://t.co/rNSULRfGC129 days ago
  • AvatarLadies and gentlemen, the portfolio institutional awards 2013 video: http://t.co/yd57FfYQcE29 days ago
  • Avatarfriday view: It's not you, it's me, DGFs and hedge funds, The case for gold, A depreciating ... - http://t.co/dzJ2Wkfg3D33 days ago
  • Avatarfriday view: Taking liberties, Winning is a matter of definition, Groundhog month?, ESG data has ... - http://t.co/2KExKeqK2Y40 days ago
  • Avatar@seabassc83 asks has the time come for convertible bonds to shine? http://t.co/tnPYe2SL2E43 days ago
  • Avatarfriday view: Over-regulated, The impact of QE, Safe havens and the Great Rotation, Dealing with volatility - http://t.co/bbmJ3GMiya47 days ago
  • AvatarHere's an insight into the triple-award-winning M&S Pension Scheme's portfolio http://t.co/pE0DCQqMTT #piawards48 days ago