All Features articles – Page 142
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FeaturesLooking for second pillar growth
Recent legislation has mainly given third pillar pension providers a boost, finds Reeta Paakkinen
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FeaturesAfter the turmoil
While many investors have been left with severe losses, the massive dislocations raise new opportunities for those brave enough to enter the marketplace, Joseph Mariathasan finds
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Inflation assets: alternatives from inflation
Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the use of alternative assets as a means of protecting against inflation.
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A wait-and-see approach
New investment regulations have not had a great impact on Greek funds’ investments, says Reeta Paakkinen
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FeaturesInflation seller: Øresund Bridge
While pension funds, insurers and private investors benefit from lower inflation, public authorities and enterprises, utilities, real estate and distribution companies profit from higher inflation. So, the latter group can benefit from becoming inflation sellers, according to a Fortis Investments reports, ‘Inflation swaps to safeguard future income or hedge against ...
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FeaturesInflation buyers: using swaps
Use of inflation swaps as a hedging tool has grown as pension funds adopt LDI strategies, finds Nina Röhrbein
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FeaturesThe contrarian: deflation
Inflationary fears are exaggerated according to veteran fixed income specialist Joop Bresser. He spoke to Miranda Schoutsen about his concerns over deflation
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Rally in credit
Yield curve/duration There is a growing consensus that the demise of Bear Stearns, the US investment bank, may have marked the low point of the current financial market problems. Although liquidity remains low and interbank lending is still far from normal, the belief seems to be that the worst of ...
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FeaturesTaking a leap in the dark
A reform of Greece’s first pillar leaves a lot still to be done, discovers George Coats
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Dead man walking
Question: What starts with ‘P’ and ends in chaos? Answer: The International Accounting Standards Board’s Phase I pensions accounting project. It has all been a bad dream. That was the message from the 21 April joint board meeting in London between the IASB and the US Financial Accounting Standards. At ...
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FeaturesDealing with inflation
IPE asked three pension funds – in Austria, Finland and the Netherlands – the same question: ‘How do you protect your investments from inflation?’ Here are their answers:
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FeaturesDiminishing the mismatch
Fundamental indices could help mend the mismatch between assets and liabilities. David White reports
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FeaturesHoliday season
In July last year the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit what was then an all time high, closing above 14,000 for the first time. All seemed set fair. Banks were announcing record results, house prices moved inexorably upwards and the former CEO of Citigroup was still cutting a rug. In ...
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An imbalanced market
The UK has the most stringent pension indexation requirements of all the OECD countries. Joseph Mariathasan here points out the pressures that are pushing pension funds towards low-yielding assets such as inflation linkers
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FeaturesLongevity index spreads its wings
Faced with ageing members and increasing liabilities, pension funds and other institutional investors are paying greater attention to the risk presented by longevity. And in this environment, JPMorgan’s LifeMetrics index - which claims to be the first international longevity index - is spreading into several countries. As one of three ...
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FeaturesIndices
Index for Hong Kong stock market Index service provider China Securities Index (CSI) has developed what it claims is the first market-monitoring index tracking Hong Kong securities. The CSI HK 100 index is designed to reflect the performance of the Hong Kong stock market following the rapid economic integration of ...
