Hints and tips:
...As the dust settled on September’s pension scheme crisis, John Ralfe, a pensions specialist and early proponent of liability-matching investment strategies, did not hesitate to select his target....
...Kenny Nicoll and Andrew Mulhair join as LDI solutions managers from the consultants Redington and Willis Towers Watson respectively....
...Redington, one of the UK’s five largest consultants, backs this approach....
...On Redington Road a sprawling five-bedroom house is on sale for £15m....
...• John Brynjolfsson is to close Armored Wolf, the hedge fund he founded after leaving Pimco in 2008, and is joining James Alpha Advisors, an alternative investment mutual fund boutique....
...Former Hampstead residents include John Keats and John Constable, and throughout the 20th century the area attracted well-heeled members of the intelligentsia....
...John McNeill, investment manager at fixed income house Kames, says a spectrum of higher yielding asset classes have appealed, according to each pension fund’s appetite for risk....
...Good governance, as John Ashcroft (formerly of The Pensions Regulator), Juan Yermo and Fiona Stewart (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) rightly point out in their contributions can...
...John Ralfe, an independent pensions expert, believes Lloyds may lose out on as much as £155m of anticipated relief on its £1bn planned contribution when the loophole is closed....
...Redington has earned a reputation for risk management: it employs just six people in manager selection....
...● Redington has lured former Goldman Sachs executive director David Bennett to provide advice on asset and liability management....
...Much of the detail here I owe to the independent UK consultant John Ralfe. His thesis can be briefly stated....
...John Ralfe, an independent consultant, does not expect trustees to succeed in squeezing more money out of sponsors to meet deficits....
...Standard Life Investments, for example, has held talks with Redington Partners about such an arrangement....
...Rob Gardner, partner and co-founder of Redington Partners, a pensions consultancy, says that poses a big challenge for the PPF....
...Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, partner at Redington Partners, a pension consultancy, adds: “Lehman would have been one of a number of potential counterparties....
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