Asset Allocation – Page 225
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Turning the tanker around
For the first time it has opened a storefront office encouraging walk-in traffic. It is offering more comprehensive and personalised financial advice. It is dramatically cutting expenses, laying off 8% or 500 of its 6,500 employees. In other words, the 85-year old Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities ...
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The viruous circle of transition management
The tricky proposition of simultaneously restructuring portfolios while changing investment managers can be daunting for even the most sophisticated pension fund sponsor. If badly handled, a transition can severely impact the health of a pension fund. Transition managers allow pension funds to allocate assets efficiently – both with reference to ...
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Dancing to our own tune
Although still very much tied to the fortunes of the global economy, Asian markets are increasingly dancing to their own regional tune. The attractive valuations and higher dividend yields in Asia have brought domestic and foreign liquidity into the equity markets and have certainly been a major contributor to their ...
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Low taxes pose pension dilemma
The Isle of Man, less than 100km from the UK coast, has always followed pension developments in the UK closely. This is in contrast to the other two British offshore centres, Jersey and Guernsey, which have taken a more independent approach. The island adopted most of the provisions of the ...
