All IPE articles in December 2004 (Magazine)
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Features
Nordic markets look for more
The market for asset management in Sweden is notoriously overcrowded, and for years a feature of Stockholm’s financial scene has been the large number of asset managers looking for a limited amount of institutional business. “There are few markets that have the same level of competition and the same number ...
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Smooth transition launches streamlined new structure
To ensure its future success in a fast-changing pensions market, Munich-based Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), an independent pensions holding company with over 1.5m active members and retirees and a capital value at 31 December 2003 of €31.4bn, felt it needed a new structure that was not only cost-effective, efficient and transparent ...
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Hitting the right mark
The message from the asset management community in Denmark is broadly: ‘It’s still tough out there but it has been a lot tougher.’ In part the difficulties are a result of changes as pension fund and other institutional investors reassess their positions after the 2000-2002 market collapse. But it is ...