Asset Allocation – Page 137
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The impact of immigration
For the past decade Ireland, long seen as a country from which people emigrated, has witnessed a strong influx of immigrants, particularly from eastern Europe. But this phenomenon is still too recent to be able to lead to any conclusions of its impact on the pensions industry. “A lot of ...
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Healthy investment
Michael Pederson, CIO of PKA, the Danish health and social services workers’ fund, tells Brendan Maton about the positive side to principled investment
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Which way to go?
The government’s Green Paper is focusing attention on the options to develop Ireland’s pensions sector. Nina Röhrbein reviews them
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Going global in fixed income
The liquidity crisis in the credit market caused by the US sub-prime upheaval is prompting institutions to switch their allocation from local to global fixed income. Joseph Mariathasan explains why and considers the implications.
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Seeing with new eyes
In the final article on a new study, Amin Rajan and Neeraj Sahai conclude that there are no short-cuts to any place worth going
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Turkey: Focus on ... derivatives
Founded two and a half years ago by the Turkish Chambers of Commerce, the ISE, the Izmir Mercantile Exchange and the banks Is Bank, Garanti Bank, Ak Bank, Yapi Kredi Bank and Vakif Bank, Turkdex offers 10 derivatives contracts of which two – on the Istanbul 30 Index and the US dollar – can be described as active and functioning.
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Here comes the sun
Over the past couple of years, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to sustainability and alternative energy funds by media and investors alike. And typically, one of the components of alternative energy funds is solar power technology, also known as photovoltaics (PV). Many in the investment industry hold ...
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Caught in the headlights
How has the sub-prime affair and resulting liquidity crisis affected the institutional investment management paradigm? Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Capturing opportunities
George Inderst assesses the factors that will drive asset allocation this year
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Batten down the hatches
The resilience of the European economy brought to the fore in January the question of whether the European Central Bank (ECB) would dare raise rates.
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The unknown hedge fund fat tail
Victor Wong finds investors are beginning to appreciate the potential scale of losses from quantitative hedge fund strategies
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Taking in the LDI marketplace
Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the range of liability management strategies available to European pension funds
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Swap indices driven by LDI
Nina Röhrbein looks at the growing area of swap indices and their application within liability strategies
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Hedging for the cost of ice creams
Iain Morse describes the benefits and pitfalls involved in implementing a pooled liability fund strategy
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The elusive small cap gold
Large cap stocks may be set to outperform small caps, but the best active managers will be able to find opportunities whatever the market environment, says Joseph Mariathasan
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Looking for long-term solutions
Positioning a relatively new investment company is not always an easy feat when the world is stuffed full of boutiques and behemoths of all hues and everything in between.
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Re-balancing the rate of risk
Iain Morse looks at how two pension funds, Henkel and PME, are addressing risk in management of liabilities
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Looking at the year ahead for funds
IPE asked three pension services – in France, Italy and Romania – the same question: ‘What challenges and opportunities will you face in 2008?’ Here are their answers:
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Spring cleaning your portfolios
Too many pension fund portfolios get cluttered up with unwanted exposures. Optimal rebalancing offers a way for asset owners to get back to strategic asset allocation weights in a highly cost-effective way. Andrew Capon and Sébastien Page explain how it works
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Sofia Group gives region a voice
CEE pension associations formed an ad-hoc working group during an August 2006 meeting of pension representatives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
