Asset Allocation – Page 208
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A day at the races
While many larger, unionised companies in Ireland have maintained their defined benefit (DB) schemes, privately-owned building firm John Sisk & Son took action to shift the risk element towards its staff – well in advance of the recent stock market turmoil. The company runs two DB schemes: the executive scheme ...
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Shaking off the peer group
One of the main distinguishing factors of Irish pension funds is that they have been and to a lesser extent today continue to be heavily invested in the domestic equity market. This is not so unusual in itself, of course, except that investing up to 30% of one’s portfolio in ...
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Pricing power is back
We currently have around E5bn in mixed portfolios, that is portfolios which contain both equities and bonds. The portfolios give us a mandate to allocate between equities and fixed income instruments. Our investment philosophy is very much characterised by a top-down approach. Here, I will describe our current allocation strategy ...
