Asset Allocation – Page 247
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Globalists take it with them
Until 20 years ago, expatriates were a relatively rare species. Expatriates were transferred abroad mostly to provide particular technical or management skills that were not locally available. Along with the international transfer usually came a generous reward package. Times have changed. Most multinationals nowadays employ sizeable mobile employee populations. With ...
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How Shell spreads the gospel
The Shell International group has an impressive pedigree and scale when it comes to pensions provision for its 90,000 employees across the globe. To put this into context, at the end of 2000, the group had pension assets of around $50bn (E51bn). There are in excess of 40 funded schemes ...
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Lowering the return hurdle
It has been one of the hot issues of the market and the government finally decided to do something about it. The minimum interest rate for occupational pensions in Switzerland of 4% has been seen as a huge legal constraint that was making asset manager and insurers’ lives very difficult ...
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Still signs of life
The fund management industry in Switzerland continues to be one of the most dynamic markets in Europe, despite growth of assets slowing down. According to figures published by the Swiss Fund Association (SFA), the country’s fund market didn’t attract significant inflows during last year, even though the number of new ...
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Parting of the ways
The City of Zurich Pension Fund certainly belongs to the city as a wide range of local bodies use it as their pensions provider. In addition to city employees, other employers’ staffs can join whose work is of ‘special interest’ for the city, such as housing associations, explains the fund’s ...
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Ready for take-off
Flaws in the fabric of the Japanese economy still mar the outlook for equities in the country. But equity strategists are now cautiously optimistic about the prospects for share prices in Japan – at least in comparison to the outlook for equity markets in the US and Europe. Hopes are ...
