All Features articles – Page 151
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North Cyprus reforms pensions
Social Security reforms to harmonise the retirement benefits of public and private sector workers came into force in Northern Cyprus on 1 January.
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Spring cleaning your portfolios
Too many pension fund portfolios get cluttered up with unwanted exposures. Optimal rebalancing offers a way for asset owners to get back to strategic asset allocation weights in a highly cost-effective way. Andrew Capon and Sébastien Page explain how it works
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The index issue
MSCI Barra has responded to the new-found interest in frontier markets with the launch of a dedicated frontier markets index.
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A new triumph for economic liberalisation?
Frontier emerging markets are attracting interest. Proponents say they are a natural step in a rapidly developing and globalising economy and not just a reaction to overvaluations in the other emerging markets. Joseph Mariathasan explores the latest additions to the investible world
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Sofia Group gives region a voice
CEE pension associations formed an ad-hoc working group during an August 2006 meeting of pension representatives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Diversifying asset management
Cultural, economic and political variations remain but Krystyna Krzyzak finds that investment styles are converging
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Widening the investment universe
Bulgaria’s €365m Doverie welcomes the relaxation of regulations but says there’s still some way to go, finds Thomas Escritt
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Coping with high inflation
Wages and economic growth fuel advances in the Baltic asset management industry, Krystyna Krzyzak reports
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Investors risk averse
Credit concerns re-emerged in November as the US sub-prime problems worsened, leading to large-scale risk aversion by investors. This had a negative impact on hedge fund performance, resulting in the Eurekahedge Fund of Funds index ending the month down 1.5% .
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Volatility returns to the market
November was marked by a sharp fall in stock markets, as can be seen from the average returns of the S&P 500, in spite of a rally at the end of the month in anticipation of an imminent reduction in the US Treasury’s intervention rate.
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Delivering a seal of approval
In the third of a series of articles based on a new study*, Amin Rajan and Jervis Smith highlight the ascendancy of third-party administrators
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Taking advice on advisers
There is a great deal of discussion about what liability-driven investing is exactly. So what clear advice is there for the investor? Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Out of Africa
Although often seen as too risky, David White finds that the continent could be a useful outside bet
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Novel approach hits problems
The aggressive strategy adopted by speicalist pension manager, Pension Corporation, to gain control of pension funds, has attracted plaudits and criticism as David White reports
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Asset growth comes under global spotlight
The influx of new foreign fund managers to Australia is a reflection of the maturing of the superannuation funds market. Richard Newell reports
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Slipping back into the cold
CEE pension funds face an unexpected source of volatility – politicians, George Coats discovers
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Banking on trust
Oscar Volder finds trust banks’ key role in managing pension funds’ assets is unlikely to change, even if the range of products and services they offer does
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A blessing in disguise
The retirement of the baby-boom generation, a lower fertility rate and increasing life expectancy will result in a relatively high number of elderly people whose income consists of benefits paid by the working generation and savings such as pensions and life insurance.
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The credibility gap
Pension trustees have access to better education and training than ever before but, say observers, in an increasingly complex investment world, they may never have enough knowledge. Maha Khan Phillips reports
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Curse of the liquidity freeze
Yield curve/duration: Market liquidity often worsens as end-of-the-year housekeeping and the holiday season approach. It is a regular, usually seasonal, pattern. What is different about the latest year-end is that the bid/offer spread widening spilled over into the futures contracts for the first quarter 2008.
