Arun Muralidhar
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SMART portfolio management
Static portfolio management techniques fail because they cannot respond to changing economic conditions. Arun Muralidhar offers an alternative
Devising an investable index
There has been a growing emphasis on pension fund liability management and creating a portfolio of assets to match these liabilities. The popular press has published several recommendations to protect pension fund solvency through the immunisation of liabilities. Recommendations have ranged from the approach of the Boots Pension fund, which converted the entire portfolio of assets into fixed income assets (since revised to include a small allocation to non-fixed income assets), to
Book review: 'European Pensions & Global Finance'
Gordon Clark’s book, European Pensions and Global Finance, provides a refreshing addition to the burgeoning literature on social security and old age retirement security. Rather than offer another solution to the pending crisis, he reviews the political economy and economic geography to examine the role and status of European pension systems in relation to financial imperatives driving globalisation. This book is a unique examination of the history and geography underlying pension systems and