Asset Allocation – Page 231
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Irish launch for Mercer 360
Mercer Investment Consulting has launched a new product allowing smaller Irish pension funds access to international investment managers. The new service, Mercer 360, combines the investment consulting experience of Mercer with the fund management skills of Attica Asset Management. Attica provides manager of manager products in the UK, and is ...
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War against deflation
Although it may not currently be fashionable to admit it: we are fundamentalists. This relates to our investment and research, not ideological, approach. The first step in every investment decision is the analysis of the key long-term drivers of an investment. We then confront our findings with the consensus view. ...
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And the 'Blue Ribbon' answer...
We propose a more pragmatic direction that leverages the best practices adopted by corporate pension funds. If anything, the mistake made by many reformers was to confuse ‘corporatisation’ with sprivatisations. In our forthcoming book ‘Rethinking Pension Reform’ (Cambridge University Press), we propose a ‘permanent’ solution to the problem of maintaining ...
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Avoiding the 'DB killer'
Agreement on the translation of IAS 19 accounting standards for Dutch pension funds looks set to allay fears about how the standards might affect the Netherlands’ predominantly defined benefit (DB) pension plans. According to Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of the OPF, interested parties, including the OPF, have been talking to and ...
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Going down the private road
Macedonia is one of Europe’s most impoverished countries, with deep-seated political problems stemming from the aftermath of Yugoslavia’s bloody disintegration. Nevertheless, it has prioritised the reform of its pensions system. “Macedonia has certainly been brave in implementing its pensions reforms,” observes Iain Batty, partner at CMS Cameron McKenna, the legal ...
