Asset Allocation – Page 241
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Features
Why home teams are winners
As the trend towards outsourcing continues to gather pace, and both external managers and investment consultants intensify their marketing efforts, internal managers must be feeling a little beleaguered. But they are sure to find some reassurance in the WM Company’s latest analysis of internal investment management in the UK pensions ...
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Power of Master KAGs
If there is a development in the German market that could change the structure of the asset management industry as a whole, is the development of the ‘master KAGs’, a new multi-manager structure that has hit the headlines of the German financial press during the last few months. The development ...
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Features
Living in tougher times
Too high expectations regarding the development of the pension industry in Germany during this year have resulted in disappointment among the asset management community. The forecast growth in assets that the pension reform was supposed to bring into the institutional arena has not materialised, partly due to market conditions but ...
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Features
New product shakes up market
In June the Austrian parliament finally adopted the government bill reforming the country’s severance pay system that will definitely have an important impact on the development of occupational pensions. The discussions regarding the reform of the statutory severance pay, the Abertigung, started in the late 1990s when the Austrian Trade ...
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Time for new products
It is obvious by now that drastic measures are required to handle the looming pension crisis in Europe as – because of demographic developments – a smaller number of salary earners will need to pay for the state pension income of an increasing amount of pensioners. European governments and professional ...
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Technology at your service
Pension funds in Europe face increasingly unwieldy operations issues, while some have the additional strategic goal of growing a third-party business. Multi-tiered structures, multiple managers and a demand for more frequent information are pressuring the operations of pension funds on both sides of the Atlantic. Bringing in more asset managers ...
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Special Report
Good governance will pay back
PGGM is the Dutch pension fund for the healthcare and social welfare sector, responsible for the financial future of over 1m people and their family members. This is a major social responsibility, of which PGGM is very much aware. We reflect this responsibility by pursuing sustainable policies that are based ...
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Under a cloud
One of the most developed markets in Europe, the Swiss pension fund industry is now entering a new phase of maturity. Disappointing investment returns and shrinking reserves are pushing institutional investors to rethink their strategies to find new investment solutions to face the future. Overall, investors are not satisfied with ...
