Asset Allocation – Page 246
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Preparing for the long haul
While German insurance companies and investment banks have been gearing themselves up for the new Riester market, the significance of the developments in German has not escaped foreign players, in particular, with an eye on the huge predicted asset flows in Europe’s largest economy. International asset manager, Invesco, is one ...
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What next on the agenda?
With its passive managers in place from mid-January this year and the five active global equity and pan-European equity managers following soon after in early April, the NTMA had to set its sights on the daily monitoring of its managers and issues such as performance and risk analysis. The agency ...
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Mixed signals on the road ahead
UK pension funds “have had more thrown at them in the last 18 months than in the last 18 years!” is how one fund manager describes the turbulent UK pensions scene since the turn of the century. The lull in UK pension fund activity over the past 10 months is ...
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All embracing approach to protection
PRO BTP is an organisation created by the French construction industry for the French construction industry. Its job is to run the complementary system of social protection, insurance and pensions for more than three million people who belong to the BTP – ‘batiments et travaux publics’. The organisation was set ...
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All on the same spreadsheet
Siemens group office head office in Munich is gearing up for the end of the group’s financial year at the end of September, when the uniform asset management reporting system will come into place. All the group’s pension plans will be reporting their performance data according to a group-wide platform. ...
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All quiet on the western front?
To gauge the temperature of the NPRF debate, we asked a number of opinion formers in Ireland, including professional bodies, trade unions and employers’ organisations for their views The Panel Ann Fitzgerald – secretary general, Irish Association of Investment Managers (IAIM) John Feely – chairman, Irish Association of ...
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Performance and attribution analysis
Such a high-profile public fund as the NPRF needed watertight systems to monitor both the performance and risk profiles of the investment managers appointed. For this, the NTMA looked to specialist providers in the market. On the performance side, performance analysis outfit StatPro picked up the mandate to provide its ...
