Asset Allocation – Page 268
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Good time for the buy decision
In times of high risk aversion and fears of global recession investors tend to overlook the opportunities offered by emerging markets, it is a pity, as this is usually the best time to buy. Recent results may help to put through this thesis. In the year to date the MSCI ...
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Setting standards to deal with risk
We are all, at last, coming to realise in these volatile times that risk cannot be avoided. Indeed, for any serious investor in the equity market, the acceptance of risk has always been essential to the earning of a reward. Ignoring risk is never an option – the question is ...
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Pension systems developed to meet different needs
ARGENTINA The pension reform in Argentina was approved in 1993, establishing a mixed system consisting of a public pension pay-as-you-go pillar, complemented by a mandatory second pillar in which workers can choose between privately managed individual accounts or a publicly managed defined benefit scheme. Affiliation to the system, the Sistema ...
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Using multinational pooling for effective management
In essence, multinational pooling is a technique that allows organisations with multiple operations around the world to consolidate their employee benefit insurance contracts in these countries with a local insurer of an international insurance network. Financial and non-financial advantages of multinational pooling are often described to include: q economies of ...
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What every multinational needs to know
Multinational companies, whatever their size, need two essential things for successful employee benefits and pension provision: information on the benefit programmes offered in each of their local subsidiaries; and centralised financial control of each of the programmes. Global human resources managers must be open to local alternative concepts and understand ...
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New law for private schemes
The problems of an ageing population are not confined to large countries, as Malta’s experience shows. Despite a buoyant economy and a well-established social security system, the government is preparing legislation to ease the introduction of private pension schemes, including provision for international retirement plans. The latest available figures show ...
