Asset Allocation – Page 308
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Woodrow Milliman firms give their market views: BELGIUM
As the chart below indicates, there has not been any major shift in the asset allocation policy of Belgium’s larger segregated pension funds during the last 10 years. This has now started to change.Currently, such funds are invested about 50% in Belgian assets. A further 15% to 20% is invested ...
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A bitter pill for pensions
If the issue of wrestling with the implications of the euro seems to be preoccupying the Portuguese investment management community, it is mere posture in comparison to the political and economical knots being tied around the country’s social security retirement system.And when unravelled, this so-called ‘noose’ looks set to present ...
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EXPECTATIONS COMMENTARY
The euro has landed as far as investment managers’ expectations are concerned and euro-zone equity looks like being the brightest spot on the investment map (see pages 16/17). Though we have not given any comparisons to show the change from our December expectations, since this was on the ‘Europe’ basis ...
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Slow death of DB
Only a fifth of occupational pension schemes will be on a defined benefit basis by the year 2018, according to a recent survey by Bacon & Woodrow. And employee-sponsored health and welfare insurance contracts will be the norm for over half of UK employees in the first quarter of the ...
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Woodrow Milliman firms give their market views: DENMARK
Denmark, as a result of public referendum, is not entering the euro. However, the national banks involved have agreed to maintain exchange rates Danish Krone (DKK) vs euro in a narrow band. Additionally, for Danish pension institutions, the rules of congruency are changed from this month. Sixty per cent of ...
