Asset Allocation – Page 223
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Why Electrolux aims to go 'blue'
For a surprising number of multinationals operating in Europe, the question of their worldwide pension fund arrangements is less one of streamlining an existing structure and deciding where pan-European pension plans might fit into the equation, than actually figuring out what pension plans the corporation has in place globally and ...
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Strengthening the second pillar
Slovakia is set to overhaul its entire pensions system, introducing a second-pillar privately funded plan alongside changes to its existing first and third pillar systems. The new proposal is a more radical version of the previous government’s attempts at pensions reforms, which in any case fell by the wayside after ...
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Italian resurgence
Change in Italy is natural. As Dante famously wrote in the Divine Comedy: “The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.” Unless, that is, you’re talking about Italian pension reform. Few Italian governments over the years have strayed near ...
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TNO sticks to its guns
There are not many pension plans in the Netherlands that represent workers across such an eclectic diversity of private/government entities ranging from the qualitative labelling of fruit and vegetables through to the technicians in vehicle crash-test dummy laboratories. This is because the TNO organisation is founded by law in The ...
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Three pillar foundation
Life insurers and banks offering mutual funds stand to gain most from any expansion of Greece’s funded occupational pension plans. The Greek life market is dominated by a handful of insurers. In 2001 the top four had 66% of the market, split between Interamerican (now part of the Netherlands-based consortium ...
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Wall Street fall out
American pension funds will not get a penny of the $399m accused restitution fund paid by 10 of the biggest Wall Street firms found ‘guilty’ of conflicts of interest. In fact the settlement between them and the US government, following New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s investigation, should benefit ...
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Dollar's fall divides market
The recent realignment of the euro with the dollar has created clearly defined winners and losers in the Eurozone equities market. The winners are companies that import their raw materials from outside the Euro-zone while the losers are companies like semiconductors that export outside the Euro-zone. Catherine Reilly, chief economist ...
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Building a pension factory
It was more than two years ago that HypoVereinsbank, the second largest German retail bank, decided to strengthen its position in the pensions area. This was a brave move at the time, as for decades pensions had been a stronghold of the insurance industry, protected by tax regulations that provided ...
