Asset Allocation – Page 198
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Bond market is the key
Being small and in the middle of the Atlantic make Iceland easy for asset managers to overlook. Its prosperity, fully funded pension system and outperforming equity market mean that it is probably a mistake to do so. “Given the number of people living there it’s an interesting market,” says Peter ...
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Real-time asset-liability testing reduces the stre
With its Pension Risk Management (PRiMa) concept, MetallRente, the Berlin-based pensions fund provider for Germany’s metal industry, believes it has achieved true innovation in pension fund management with the creation of a real-time asset-liability management framework. The two areas of the German pension reform bill in 2001 that received the ...
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Innovative combination of tools ensures reserves aplenty
Denmark’s biggest pension fund, ATP, with more than Dkr300bn under management and covering practically 4.9m members in the public sector, undertook a restructuring last year of its risk management process by reviewing two key areas: asset-liability modelling (ALM) and asset allocation adjusting. The two go hand in hand and ATP ...
