All Features articles – Page 139
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Collective power lift for DC plans
Jorrit de Jong, Joeri Potter and Alwin Oerlemans argue that a collective approach can improve the outcome of DC pension plans for both employers and employees
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FeaturesStagflation has arrived
Pension funds are now working in an investment environment that is not only difficult but that has not been seen some time, as George Inderst reports
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Exceptions to the rule
The message from Anne McGeachin on international financial reporting standards (IFRS) was clear: "The IFRS must be applicable worldwide, and we therefore cannot go around exempting jurisdictions.
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FeaturesImplementing personal accounts
Liam Kennedy spoke to Paul Myners, chairman of PADA, about default options, charges and implementing best practice for the new personal accounts system
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A new world for the brave
The European asset-backed securities market now appears to be in tatters after a period of rapid growth that lasted until just over a year ago. Joseph Mariathasan investigates whether there is still life ahead for the market
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FeaturesBuy-out market shows dramatic surge
New players have entered a market of over €3bn in the past couple of years, finds Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesFeeling comfortable with shorts
In 2003 the two biggest Dutch pension funds pulled out of stocklending because they feared that short selling was contributing to market instability. Five years on, some are suggesting that European pension funds should do likewise
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Hunt is on for commodity-related opportunities
Following record commodity prices this year, index providers are on the lookout for more opportunities related to the commodities boom. MSCI Barra, for example, has already developed the MSCI Agriculture & Food Chain indices, which are part of the MSCI Thematic & Strategy indices family. The new indices are designed ...
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Inflation concerns continue
Yield curve/duration Corporate Europe is worried about the business outlook: both sentiment indicators and real economic news have been deteriorating over the summer. But with headline inflation so far above the European Central Bank’s (ECB) own target rate - in fact it hit double that level in July - there ...
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FeaturesGoing Dutch on risk sharing
The search for a way to share risk between employers and employees continues in the UK with the recent publication of a consultation document. Gail Moss explores its proposals
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FeaturesRipe for fiduciary management growth?
With trustees facing an increasingly complex task in today’s tougher environment will fiduciary management take off in the UK as it has in Holland? David White reports
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Fine wine outclassed
As an alternative investment class, fine wine has rewarded investors with steady returns of up to 8% per annum over the past decade, according to the Liv-ex 100 Index. In the 12 months to end-June 2008 a typical fine wines portfolio rose 8.5%. But this has been trumped by ...
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FeaturesHedge fund index outperformance
With a performance of 5.02%, hedge fund index ARIX (Absolute Return Investable Index) Composite index - which covers the four hedge fund strategies of equity hedge, event driven, relative value and tactical trading and is sponsored by German Feri Institutional Advisors - outperformed its rival investable hedge fund indices in ...
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FeaturesFunds risk selling themselves short
As important sources of stocklending, pension funds are under pressure to ensure they are not enabling damaging short selling. David White reports
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New products
Longevity winners index Research, rating and index company E Capital Partner Indices (ECPI), which focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, has launched a longevity index consisting of stocks that are set to profit from demographic changes. With the section of the population aged 60 or over expected ...
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FeaturesOn the offensive when times are tough
When Yves Perrier (pictured right) took over the tiller of Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) last September, his immediate objective was to ensure that the company had not sprung any serious leaks in the financial storm that had broken the month before. “My first objective was to ...
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FeaturesPanic sell-off opportunities
The indiscriminate sell-off in European bond markets sparked by the sub-prime crisis has opened up opportunities for canny investors and reminds Joseph Mariathasan of the words of former US president Franklin Roosevelt
