All Features articles – Page 150
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Keeping a Rendezvous
The government and its social partners are due to discuss pension reform as projected deficits rise. George Coats reports that fundamental change will not be on the agenda
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Sticking to the plan
Paul Haines, investment director at DMGT Pensions in London, and a former investment consultant, discusses the future of consulting, the dangers of SRI and the positive influence of heavy metal music with Brendan Maton
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Transition revamped
Most transition managers have already signed up to the T-Charter code of best practice. Rick di Mascio gives his opinion on progress so far
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Super market waits for boost from Rudd
Australia’s new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, is backing the country’s bid to become an Asian funds hub. Richard Newell explains how tax reforms can make that bid more competitive
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The unknown hedge fund fat tail
Victor Wong finds investors are beginning to appreciate the potential scale of losses from quantitative hedge fund strategies
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Assessing value in Chinese equities
Michael Grimes talks to Fortis Investments about their approach to managing stocks and identifying shareholder value in Chinese companies
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Leaders tackle 'investment xenophobia'
As sovereign wealth funds extend their activities into global markets, to what extent should they be treated with suspicion and, as is the case in parts of Asia, actively discouraged? Richard Newell reports
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Opportunities for quant to deliver missing alpha
Swiss private bank Wegelin & Co is planning to expand its footprint into Australasia in 2008. The asset management arm of Wegelin is a leading active quant manager, with $5bn invested in quant strategies ($20bn overall) of which $1bn is invested in single hedge fun
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Taking in the LDI marketplace
Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the range of liability management strategies available to European pension funds
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Swap indices driven by LDI
Nina Röhrbein looks at the growing area of swap indices and their application within liability strategies
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Hedging for the cost of ice creams
Iain Morse describes the benefits and pitfalls involved in implementing a pooled liability fund strategy
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Policy review engages Polish funds
As the new government reviews its policy options, pension funds tell George Coats what they think should be on its agenda
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Looking forward to liberalisation
Two issues were predominant in the German fund market at the end of 2007. One was the planned introduction of a definitive withholding tax on income from capital assets from January 2009 at a rate of 25%.
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The elusive small cap gold
Large cap stocks may be set to outperform small caps, but the best active managers will be able to find opportunities whatever the market environment, says Joseph Mariathasan
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Looking for long-term solutions
Positioning a relatively new investment company is not always an easy feat when the world is stuffed full of boutiques and behemoths of all hues and everything in between.
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Re-balancing the rate of risk
Iain Morse looks at how two pension funds, Henkel and PME, are addressing risk in management of liabilities
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Euroclear edges towards conformity
Euroclear has taken another step in its aim to harmonise clearing and settlement in the countries it covers on to a single platform.
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Looking at the year ahead for funds
IPE asked three pension services – in France, Italy and Romania – the same question: ‘What challenges and opportunities will you face in 2008?’ Here are their answers:
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Weighing up the benefits of indexation
This month’s Off The Record looks at the issue of the indexation of pensions.
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Rights and wrongs of default funds
Customised default funds or blanket solutions, choice or guided decisions. The issue of creating the right default funds for defined contribution systems was the subject of discussion among Nobel Laureates, academics and investment specialists at Pioneer Investments’ second European Colloquia in Vienna.
