All IPE articles in December 2006 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Why asset allocation looks more attractive
The changing approach to asset allocation in Spain is assessed by Jose-Luis Masferrer who sees investors becoming more venturesome
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Why Portugal favours the domestic touch
While mergers have raised the bar in Portugal in terms of services provided by asset managers, it is still a market dominated by local players, as George Coats discovers
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Portugal: crisis or challenge?
Bernie Thomas argues that the lifting of investment restrictions on pension plans in Portugal should help to lift the economy out of the doldrums
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Incentives needed to boost second pillar
Portugal has to find better ways of channelling money into complementary schemes, writes Manuel de Vasconcelos Guimarães
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Barclays steps up 'return-seeking'
Since 2002 Mark Hyde-Harrison has reduced his fund’s exposure to equities and heavily increased the share of alternatives. David White reports
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Winds of change drive innovation
The last bear market, new accounting rules and demographics are causing major shifts in client behaviours, argues Amin Rajan in the first of three articles on a new study
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Wealth from the woodlands
Timberland investments can offer high longer-term returns to institutional investors, mainly through specialised vehicles, says Stephanie Schwartz-Driver
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One share, one vote
US research suggests that the one share, one vote principle could benefit corporate efficiency. Brussels is looking at the issue but will it take heed, asks Jeremy Woolf
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The Spanish road towards multi-management
Over the past few years Spanish pensions have begun to focus more on equities and started to embrace multimanager strategies. Xavi Bellavista and Ignasi Puigdollers report
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Who manages the managers?
Penny Green suggests that some companies are risking overall pension costs by not paying enough attention to the less glamorous operational tasks at hand
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Traffic light system sends out the right signals
In an increasingly complex and evolving German pension fund market, sustained yields and preservation of capital are essential. Given falling interest rates in the last few years, this is becoming an ever growing challenge. Germany’s Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), the pensions management company that runs 12 independent public sector and doctors ...
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Learning from your mistakes
Five years on one of the biggest stock market bubbles ever, investors such as fund manager Cliff Asness still bear the scars from being a tech-bubble naysayer. Richard Newell reports
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Innovation is watchword for scheme that makes most of new legislation
Robert Bosch, a leading German industrial company with 250,000 employees worldwide, of whom 110,000 are in Germany, established its pension scheme, Bosch Pensionsfonds (BPF), in 2002, making full use of legislation in Germany encouraging the creation of funded pension schemes to replace the traditional but somewhat creaking pay-as-you-go and Pensionskassen ...
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A sure hand on the tiller
It says much about a person when a pensions regulator heads the poll for this Award. This is what Anne Maher, chief executive at the Pensions Board in Ireland, has done. In fact, the end of her stint at the board coincides exactly with the IPE Awards, making the presentation ...
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Goldilocks or stagnation?
With beta back in vogue, the time could be ripe for some thinking outside the box, says Georg Inderst
