All Features articles – Page 149
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Turkey's Oyak diversifies abroad
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
Paolo Barbieri discusses the opportunites provided by restructuring hedge funds
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Getting the message across
Bridging the communications gap between provider and member is a difficult task, Julie Henderson finds
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Winners and losers in 2007
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
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
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
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
George Inderst assesses the factors that will drive asset allocation this year
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Caught in the headlights
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
The government’s Green Paper is focusing attention on the options to develop Ireland’s pensions sector. Nina Röhrbein reviews them
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Shifting the goal posts
The scope of IASB’s phase I pensions accounting project has widened since it was announced in July 2006. Stephen Bouvier trawled through the official sound archives to set the record straight
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The impact of immigration
For the past decade Ireland, long seen as a country from which people emigrated, has witnessed a strong influx of immigrants, particularly from eastern Europe. But this phenomenon is still too recent to be able to lead to any conclusions of its impact on the pensions industry. “A lot of ...
