All Features articles – Page 149

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    New man at EFRP

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    He may be a new broom, but Angel Martinez-Aldama will be sweeping up much of the same old dust, finds George Coats

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    Overdoing the doom and gloom

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Off The Record is an opportunity for readers of Investment & Pensions Europe to say what they think about topical issues. This month’s Off The Record looks at the year ahead and asks what we can expect in 2008.

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    Turkey's Oyak diversifies abroad

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Oyak, the €5.5bn pension fund of the Turkish armed forces, is to invest in foreign assets for the first time since it was established over 40 years ago.

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    Alpha through restructuring

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Paolo Barbieri discusses the opportunites provided by restructuring hedge funds

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    Getting the message across

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Bridging the communications gap between provider and member is a difficult task, Julie Henderson finds

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    Candidates talk Social Security

    February 2008 (Magazine)

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    Winners and losers in 2007

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    While all group pension managed funds in Ireland were posting negative returns late last year, figures from Rubicon Investment Consulting show that some were doing less badly than others during the worst of the rout.

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    Batten down the hatches

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    The resilience of the European economy brought to the fore in January the question of whether the European Central Bank (ECB) would dare raise rates.

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    Pass the hat to whom it fits best

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    The impact on pension funds of long-term funding issues means that actuaries will have to be particularly vigilant when it comes to managing conflicts of interest, says Gerry O’Carroll

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    Risky business

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Pension funds have come far in their approaches to risk management. Some risks, however, are harder to mitigate than others. Maha Khan Phillips reports

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    Capturing opportunities

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    George Inderst assesses the factors that will drive asset allocation this year

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    Caught in the headlights

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    How has the sub-prime affair and resulting liquidity crisis affected the institutional investment management paradigm? Lynn Strongin Dodds reports

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    Counting the cost of a downturn

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Irish pension funds find out the hard way that eggs really should be kept in more than one basket, Rachel Fixsen discovers

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    CPP IB: Heed our cry

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is concerned about protectionist legislation directed at sovereign wealth funds. Gail Cook-Bennett, chair of CPP IB, outlined her vision of governance and transparency to Liam Kennedy

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    Turkey: Focus on ... derivatives

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Founded two and a half years ago by the Turkish Chambers of Commerce, the ISE, the Izmir Mercantile Exchange and the banks Is Bank, Garanti Bank, Ak Bank, Yapi Kredi Bank and Vakif Bank, Turkdex offers 10 derivatives contracts of which two – on the Istanbul 30 Index and the US dollar – can be described as active and functioning.

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    Seeing with new eyes

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    In the final article on a new study, Amin Rajan and Neeraj Sahai conclude that there are no short-cuts to any place worth going

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    Going global in fixed income

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    The liquidity crisis in the credit market caused by the US sub-prime upheaval is prompting institutions to switch their allocation from local to global fixed income. Joseph Mariathasan explains why and considers the implications.

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    Looking to the future

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    Orlaigh Quinn outlines the role the The Green Paper on Pensions will play in the evolution of Irish pensions policy

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    Which way to go?

    February 2008 (Magazine)

    The government’s Green Paper is focusing attention on the options to develop Ireland’s pensions sector. Nina Röhrbein reviews them