Asset Allocation – Page 145
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Indexing for an inefficient market
Passive indexing has rapidly gained popularity and importance among institutional investors in the rest of the world but to a lesser extent in Asia, with good reason. Jason Hsu and Jason Chia-Shang Tuan explain a new strategy that may alter this
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Benchmarking for tomorrow's models
Paul Hoff looks at how index providers are responding to the needs of investors for ready access to new markets
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Treading with caution in the global market
Richard Newell talks to the management of New Zealand’s investment fund about the challenges of being a global investor
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How to avoid future minefields
The row over pension funds investing in companies that manufacture cluster bombs and landmines could perhaps have been avoided if the funds had used a new portfolio screening service. David White reports
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Smart solutions for the self-employed
The pension needs of the self-employed in Holland have been overlooked in the past, particularly their ability and willingness to bear risk. Alwin Oerlemans and Jeroen Tielman report on some of the solutions proposed at the recent PensionSummit
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Philips - outsourced but not out of touch
How does a pension fund stay in touch with its assets once it has outsourced their entire management to a third party? Rob Schreur and Ernst Hagen report on how the Philips pension fund supervises and monitors a wide range of portfolios
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Factoring in fears of image risk
The cluster bomb controversy has transformed Dutch pension funds from paragons of virtue to robotic monsters without a conscience. Peter Kraneveld suggests how they can avoid such ‘image risk’in the future
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Assessing views on commodities
We asked three funds – in Italy, the Netherlands and Norway: ‘In light of recent commodity price rises but given that they are still historically low, are they a worthwhile diversification tool?’
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Need for pensions wake-up call
Both politicians and trades unions are concerned about pensions in Austria. Barbara Ottawa talks to some of the movers and shakers
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Keeping it Spezial
Despite competition from the world of mutual funds, Spezialfonds are still en vogue. Frank Schnattinger examines why
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Tracking the corporate funding wave
CTAs and Pensionsfonds offer complementary management structures for corporate pensions, says Jan Wagner
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A warning against herd mentality
Gail Moss gives an overview of German pension institutions’ current asset allocation
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Take the 'A' train
While foreign investors seek out new ways to capture their share of China’s growth phenomenon, the A shares market still offers one of the key entry points to mainland exposure
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Roll with the punches
Asia may have led the markets down in recent weeks but, Kevin Hebner argues, the case for the region’s equities remains undiminished
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Only the strong survive
Richard Johnson reviews the performance of Asian hedge funds and discovers that a manager for all seasons can be hard to find
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A life in pensions with no regrets
Bengt Edström recently retired from his position as pension operations manager and internal consultant at the Swedish power utility Vattenfall Group, and as trustee for Vattenfall’s pensionsstiftelse, the group’s SEK5.5bn (€593m) DB pension vehicle. George Coats interviewed him
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Thinking for the future
Where does a pension fund get ideas about a new asset class? ABP Investments is asking its staff to think about new asset classes and has created an ‘innovation committee’ to assess them. Liam Kennedy reports
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The end of a perfect storm
Investors need to safeguard against complacency having grown used to double digit returns over recent years, Joseph Mariathasan argues
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US Treasury yields positive as rate cuts on hold
Yield curve/duration The oil price is on the rise, and indeed has been since the start of the year. There are a variety of factors all contributing to the higher prices: strong global demand, recent colder weather, production cuts from OPEC and tensions created by the capture of the fifteen ...
