Asset Allocation – Page 157
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Fit for purpose and ready for the future
The pensions industry has emerged from the past 10 years stronger and in good shape world-wide to tackle the challenges ahead, writes Daniel Brooksbank
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Special Report
Tapping into the Green agenda
Real estate investors need to keep abreast of sustainability issues if they want to add value while protecting existing assets, Scott Muldavin argues
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Putting youth appeal into pensions
How can pension funds persuade the young that pensions are important and should be taken seriously? Gerda Smits and Wieke Everts report on an initiative to involve young people in workplace pensions
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Breaking with tradition
Institutional investors in France are increasingly widening their net as they hunt for greater performance and diversity. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Capital flowing?
Following INREV’s Investment Intentions Survey a roundtable was convened to discuss the results and develop themes arising from them
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Market report: compelling case
Allthough small, at only 1% of Europe’s real estate in value terms, Finland is undergoing one of the most profound changes of all European markets. On the one hand, there has been a surge of demand to invest in the market over the past two or three years. Domestic institutions ...
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Siemens - the never ending story
In the first issue of IPE we interviewed Herbert Lohneiss of Siemens who ran the group’s pension investment operations. He brings Fennell Betson up to date about the development over the past 10 years
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Head for homes
It is boomtown – and not just in Berlin – but caveat investor: European residential has little to bind it as an asset sub-class, Shayla Walmsley finds
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It's hot in Helsinki
Continued investor exuberance over Finnish real estate will depend on bigger, better portfolios and further expansion outside the capital, as Shayla Walmsley explains
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Making liabilities the measure
The switch in mindset needed to adopt liability-led approaches in Irish portfolios is happening, writes Joe O’Dea, who examines the impact this will have
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In the pipeline?
While developers flock to seize the opportunity of Moscow real estate, institutional investor interest remains cautious – for now at least. Christine Senior reports
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Slovakia consolidates its pensions offering
Since introducing a mandatory pillar system two years ago Slovakia has seen some local players fall by the wayside, writes George Coats
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Elections may delay reform in Romania
While on the verge of introducing second and third pillar pension funds, the political will behind the reforms could be on the wane writes George Coats
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Hungary tilts balance towards equities
Radical pension reform in Hungary continues apace despite a recent government admission about the state of the economy, writes Krystyna Krzyzak
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Poland leads part of the way
Although it is the biggest and most developed CEE market, Poland has to catch up with practices elsewhere, writes Krystyna Krzyzak
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Entering into the 26th regime
Proposals for 26th regime pension products come under the critical gaze of the Dutch pension insurers association working party on these products
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Investing in Africa
Despite growing interest for emerging markets, pension funds are still hesitant about them. Peter Hinton, managing director of Enterprise Banking Group in Botswana, says that funds were not yet heavily investing in African emerging markets due to the problem of finding the right investment vehicles or entities for their investment ...
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Credit markets set for tough year ahead
Yield curve/duration Though the US housing market continues to show significant signs of weakness, prompting economists to downgrade domestic growth forecasts, the US consumer has yet again surprised us by significantly increasing their spending rather than their savings during October. And another shock came in the form of a significantly ...
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Optimising beta
Institutional investors may be missing out on the full benefits of a core-satellite approach to portfolio investment because they are using broad market indexes as benchmarks for the core and failing to optimise the passive part of their portfolio. This was the central message of Noël Amenc, professor, finance department, ...
