All IPE articles in April 1997 (Magazine)
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Features
Foreign investors eye UK property
In preparing its window display to attract cross-frontier investment flows, the one thing the UK real estate industry has lacked in recent years is evidence of growth. The development of property derivatives and other types of financial engineering in property could never prove a total substitute for this essential element.Now ...
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Luxembourg to launch 'European pension fund'
The wraps were taken off the European pension fund made in Luxembourg last month by Lucien Thiel of the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association.The fund would be designed for European companies that want to have “a single pension scheme with common rules for all their employees in different EMU member states” said ...
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Overweight in European equities
The probability that the Fed will raise rates has increased due to unexpectedly strong growth momentum in the US. Not surprisingly, this is to some extent reflected in current US bond prices. This plus decreasing earnings momentum and a stronger dollar put a drag on the US equity market. European ...
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Hermes descends from the heights
Alastair Ross Goobey explains how the UK’s biggest pension fund will grow its investment services on the back of the defined contribution market. Fennell Betson reportsHermes is on the cusp of a momentous next stage in its development. As the UK’s largest pension fund, it is about to take the ...
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Survey understates use of outside custodians in UK
The major recent survey by the National Association of Pensions Funds found that only 75% of 600 or so UK private sector schemes responding used an outside custodian. Among public authority schemes only 61% of the 56 schemes used outside custodians.But the NAPF believes these responses understate the true position ...
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Unison uncertainty as brokers merge
The future of the Unison consultancy network is in jeopardy as a result of merger plans between US in-surance giant, Marsh & McLennan - parent company of William Mercer - and Johnson & Higgins (J&H), the core of the Unison employee benefits network.The Unison network covers insurance broking as well ...
