Asset Allocation – Page 236
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More returns without increasing risk?
Amid greater longevity and falling stock markets risk management has become a much more important issue for pension funds than ever before. However, different pension funds are tackling the problem or having the problem tackled for them in very different ways. Whilst a number of well resourced companies remain firmly ...
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The Neyt legacy
The only guide to managing our pension fund assets are our liabilities – these are the raison d’être of pension funds. Never think asset only. You must not manage a pension fund like an investment fund. Your asset allocation is based on your liability characteristics. So if they are index-linked ...
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Risk management providers
o Algorithmics Algorithmics was set up in 1989 to develop risk management software. It is based in Toronto, and has more than 140 clients in 26 countries. Products: The company focuses on implementing risk management software for enterprises. Its enterprise risk management software Algo Suite, provides a platform for a ...
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Market with split personality
Investors in European equities enter this year with an even greater degree of uncertainty and foreboding than the last. Enormous risks overhang the market, not least the fear of war with Iraq, but also concerns over a double-dip recession and the need for structural reform in heavyweight markets like Germany. ...
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'Avoid fashion' advice for funds
The head of the E2.4bn pension scheme for UK airport operator BAA says pension administrators should not follow fashion and try to work out their requirements for themselves. “Don’t be a dedicated follower of fashion, think about it, and work it out for yourself,” is BAA Pension Fund director Stuart ...
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Fund managers up in arms
To say that the German government’s tax initiatives have not been well-received is to put it mildly. Just three months after being narrowly re-elected, the German government has managed to slip 22 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls following a series of proposed tax reforms. But the German ...
