A short discussion between Toby Nangle, head of multi-asset, Threadneedle Investments; Ciaran Mulligan, head of manager research and selection, Buck Global Investment Advisors; Clive Gilchrist, deputy chairman, Bestrustees and Tom McCartan, associate, manager research, Redington.
The full transcript was published in Pensions Week's print edition on December 3 2012.
How do you judge whether a multi-asset fund is being well run?
| 10 December 2012Video: Is equity volatility here to stay?
| 29 November 2012Toby Nangle, head of multi-asset at Threadneedle Investments, explains how history suggests volatility is the norm and not the exception.
Video: How to treat your deferred members
| 14 November 2012Mark Baker, senior associate at Pinsent Masons, explains schemes' duties to deferred members. Sade Laja asks the questions.
Investment intelligence: the trustee confidence index – relationships with fund managers
| 12 November 2012Are fund managers aiming for the same goal as the pension schemes that hire them, and do they inspire confidence in the trustees, David Rowley asks PW’s panel of experts from across the UK.
Video: An economist's defence of equities
| 29 October 2012Bill Dinning, head of investment strategy and economics at Kames Capital defends the so-called cult of the equity. Tom Stevenson, reporter, Pensions Week, asks the questions.
Investment intelligence: the trustee confidence index
| 29 October 2012Trustees were asked: ‘What word would you use to describe your responsibilities as an institutional investor, and why?’. David Rowley delves into their responses.
Video: the correlation averse multi-asset fund
| 16 October 2012Christian Goldsmith, investment specialist at BNP Paribas Investment Partners explains the focus given to avoiding correlation of assets in his firms' ETF driven dynamic asset allocation fund
Investment intelligence: How confident are you about fulfilling your fund’s obligations?
| 15 October 2012This is a pretty forward question to ask those whose fiduciary duties oblige them to meet the terms of section 67 of the Pensions Act 1995.
Fundamental question: too much freedom?
| 10 October 2012Choice is not a good thing when it comes to DC funds, says Bob Campion. Are pension savers capable of making sensible investment decisions?
A four-minute video on what fund managers are doing about fees
| 02 October 2012Richard Saunders, chief executive of the Investment Management Association, gives a defence of fund manager practice on fees.
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