Asset Allocation – Page 144
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Special Report
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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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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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.
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Diversifying asset management
Cultural, economic and political variations remain but Krystyna Krzyzak finds that investment styles are converging
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Widening the investment universe
Bulgaria’s €365m Doverie welcomes the relaxation of regulations but says there’s still some way to go, finds Thomas Escritt
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Coping with high inflation
Wages and economic growth fuel advances in the Baltic asset management industry, Krystyna Krzyzak reports
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Out of Africa
Although often seen as too risky, David White finds that the continent could be a useful outside bet
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Asset growth comes under global spotlight
The influx of new foreign fund managers to Australia is a reflection of the maturing of the superannuation funds market. Richard Newell reports
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Curse of the liquidity freeze
Yield curve/duration: Market liquidity often worsens as end-of-the-year housekeeping and the holiday season approach. It is a regular, usually seasonal, pattern. What is different about the latest year-end is that the bid/offer spread widening spilled over into the futures contracts for the first quarter 2008.
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Displacement theory - and why this time isn't different
When does market exuberance become a bubble? Some argue that the Chinese equity market is different. Their optimism could be dangerous
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What did we learn from the downdraft?
Richard Johnston of Albourne Partners Asia assesses the data to see how well Asian hedge funds coped with the equity slowdown in 2007
