All Features articles – Page 182
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Dealing with the new giants
The role of pension funds needs to be rethought, according to a group of academics who presented their views in a recent Geneva Association paper. Lans Bovenberg reports
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The disruptive power of innovation
In the second of the series, Amin Rajan and Jervis Smith argue that beneath the surface of booming markets fund management is changing irrevocably
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McCreevy endorses second pillar pensions
Ageing populations; shrinking work forces, are putting intense pressure on state pensions. This is driving change throughout the whole pensions system: The relationship between the state and its citizens; the nature of the pensions promises made by employers to their employees; the design of private retirement saving products. The pressure ...
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Finnish proposal garners support
Twenty five EU member states are backing a diluted version of the directive on portability of supplementary pensions, as Jeremy Woolf reports
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Keeping the focus sharp
The main business of Principal Global Investors, a US asset management company with headquarters in Des Moines, is pension funds. Principal manages the assets of 10 of the 25 largest pension funds in the US and more than two thirds of its $180bn (€134bn) assets under management belong to pension ...
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More needed for pan-European funds
More will need to be done for pan-European pension funds and cross-border activities to “grow and blossom”, European pension fund representatives told the sixth annual IPE Awards seminar. ABP’s pension director and European Federation for Retirement Provision president Jaap Maassen said: “I am optimistic and see progress, but there are ...
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Reform impetus runs out of steam
After making good progess establishing its third pillar, the Czech Republic now finds itself being overtaken by its neighbours, as George Coats reports
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Making sense of information
In a dramatically changed research landscape, BNY ConvergEx now offers a new service for both independent research firms and money managers. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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An initiative that is starting to work
Peter Moon describes how the Enhanced Analytics Initiative is having the desired impact on investment research
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Make way for the 'IW PEPP'
With the portability directive hitting opposition, Geoffrey Furlonger suggests that the way forward could be pan-European industry-wide schemes
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More than just a pressing need to know
Pension funds need more formal skills to deal with the plethora of new developments in the sector – from the flood of new investment products to changes in finance, pension and social legislation. Rachel Fixsen reports
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When multinational pooling pays off
Having a pooling policy can lead to a more co-ordinated benefit strategy. Jeremy Hill discusses the findings of a recent survey
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Predicting a predictable New Year
Forecasting the future of the financial world is fraught with difficulty and the chances of making spectacularly bad predictions are high. Famously, Irving Fisher, a professor of economics at Yale University, said in 1929 that “stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau”. If stoics are to believed and everything is predetermined, divination is at best guesswork and at worst alarmist. However, there may be some value in educated guesses.
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Tax and pan-European pensions
A big barrier to pan-European pensions - taxation - is being lifted, according to the European Commission’s (EC) Peter Schonewille. Speaking at Multi Pensions 2006 in Amsterdam, Schonewille said that cross-border tax deductions for contributions paid to pension funds in other member states no longer presented an obstacle in 20-22 ...
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India: a commitment, not just an asset allocation
Ian McEvatt of Iceman Capital Advisors believes investors should be exposed to India because it has characteristics which distinguish it among developing markets
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Where is India heading?
Indian Fund expert Jacqueline Aldhous, manager of the Forsyth India Fund of Funds, assesses the current market conditions and highlights some of her top fund picks
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Keeping a lid on volatility
While it has a high exposure to equities, the Singapore Management University Endowment fund, safeguards against risk by investing in a wide range of asset classes, writes Richard Newell
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When tradition meets modernity
The University of Melbourne fund is run along US lines with an ever increasing attention to private equity but it is careful to retain a strong sense of the past, writes Richard Newell
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The dynamics of Asia currency
Kevin Hebner argues that the key to investing in Asia, including the currency markets, is a grasp of the underlying market drivers
