Asset Allocation – Page 249
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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 ...
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Custody award surprises competitors
One appointment by the NTMA that caused some surprise in the market was that of ABN Amro Mellon to the position of fund custodian. Observers had predicted that one of the larger custody players in Europe in terms of assets under custody might pick up the brief. Certainly with IR£8bn ...
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Why the 'feel bad' sentiment
The current market circumstances give rise to some frustration for market commentators and participants alike. It is one of those periods during which it has become abundantly clear that the development of equity prices and interest rates is not one related to a certain set of factors but rather reflects ...
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Drive to improve benefits
PSA Peugeot Citröen, France’s leading car manufacturer, is introducing an Article 83 defined contribution pension plan this month in a move designed to raise the retirement benefits of its employees. The plan will cover all employees of the PSA group’s French automobile, logistics and transportation businesses whose earnings are above ...
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Choosing from the world's best
Once the decision was taken that the National Treasury Management Agency would look after the overall management of the National Pensions Reserve Fund, the need was to put together a specialist in-house team for the job. John Corrigan of the NTMA (the former director of funding and debt management) was ...
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Waiting for better plans to emerge
The current move by some of the largest French companies to introduce Article 83 defined contribution plans for their employees suggests that they are not prepared to wait for a new pensions law and the products it will bring. PSA Peugeot Citröen is only the latest of a number of ...
