News & Events – Avida International

Sally Bridgeland panellist at EPI Summit

8-10 June 2015 – Sally Bridgeland was a panellist on an asset allocation discussion panel at Marcus Evans’ EPI Summit.

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Dorothee Franzen to join Avida International

Dorothee Franzen’s joining Avida was given attention in a press release: Dorothee Franzen joins Avida International.

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Sally Bridgeland looks at how maturing pension funds can rework investment governance in I&PE

Sally Bridgeland: “Looking beyond the UK may provide lessons on how maturing pension funds can rework investment governance.”

Rembrandt’s self-portraits show an honest, unflattering, self-awareness as he aged. At a recent discussion event in London, large and maturity UK pension funds were candid in challenging their limitations and knowing their weaknesses. While UK pension funds still have long-term time horizons, these will diminish and will have a bearing on whether it is worthwhile establishing in-house resources to manage long-term illiquid investments.

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Sally Bridgeland: Future of Fund Management panelist

10 March 2015 – Sally Bridgeland participated as a panelist in Marketforce’s The Future of Fund Management on the ‘Ask-the-experts panel discussion: improving dialogue with investors’.

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Don Ezra to join Avida’s Advisory Board

Don Ezra’s decision to join Avida’s Advisory Board was announced in a press release.

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Gordon L. Clark to join Advisory Board

A press release announced Gordon Clark‘s joining Avida’s Advisory Board.

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Sally Bridgeland keynote speaker at Annual Pensions Conference 2014

2 October 2014 – Sally Bridgeland was the keynote speaker at the Annual pensions conference 2014: Living with Risk.

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Simone Lavelle joins Avida as a partner

Simone Lavelle’s decision to join Avida International was announced in a press release.

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Bart Heenk comments on misalignment of interests in pension fund governance in I&PE

The UK is a divided market for pension funds and while many argue it is well-regulated, others say it is overtly restrictive. In truth, both sides are right. The regulations put in place since Pensions Act 1995, the regulatory response to fraud at the Mirror Group pension fund following the death of Robert Maxwell in 1991, have succeeded in adverting further scandals but have arguable hastened the demise of defined benefit (DB) schemes.

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Bart Heenk gives his viewpoint on outsourcing the investment process to fiduciary managers or delegated CIOs in I&PE

More and more pension funds are outsourcing part or all of their investment process to fiduciary managers or delegated CIOs, and in the Netherlands the majority of pension funds have already done so. Fiduciary management, solvency management, outsourced CI or delegated CIO, depending on how the various market participants label their service, can be very beneficial for defined benefit pension schemes that want or need a relatively sophisticated investment portfolio to meet their obligations.

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