All Features articles – Page 199
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SNS Asset Management
Known as a specialist in socially responsible investing, active manager SNS Asset Management positions itself as a one-stop shop for SRI. Unlike some players operating within the sustainable investment arena that focus solely on one aspect such as company screening, SNS has brought all activities related to asset management under ...
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AVV seeks to redress the balance
The pre-pension settlement, which allowed over 55s to keep their tax-friendly schemes, ruffled a lot of feathers, especially those of young workers, as Leen Preesman reports
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Plain speaker who raised awareness
Chief executive of the NAPF, Christine Farnish, has consistently argued the cause for the generation following the ‘baby boomers’, writes David White
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Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers
Though founded back in 1881, Dutch bank Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers N.V offers one of the more modern strategies. Theodoor Gilissen is the only party in the Netherlands to offer passive index products, says Lodewijk van der Kroft, director of Institutional Asset Management at Theodoor Gilissen. Using an index-tracking ...
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Equity based strategies show improved returns
The month of June was characterised by flat returns on the stock markets, and volatility, still at a low historical level, remained fairly stable. Although the bond market continued its downward trend, returns were insignificant and volatility continued to be stable. Commodity prices increased significantly from their historical mean, driven ...
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Putting the cart before the horse
The decision to introduce the third pillar before the second in Romania has serious implications for marketing budgets. George Coats reports
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Who'd buy a bond from a pension fund?
Shayla Walmsley assesses the worthiness of pension fund bond issues on the back of the recent Wellcome launch
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Bounce-back factor
Equity returns have been a big driver of performance in recent years for Europe’s funds. Pragma’s Koen De Ryck analyses the trends and Rachel Fixsen reports
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Boutique staying true to its roots
Peter Wilby chose Stone Harbor, a beach town on the east coast of the US, as a location to negotiate a deal to spin off a team of some 65 professionals including 27 investment specialists from the entity created by Legg Mason’s acquisition of Citigroup Asset Management last year. The ...
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Managing risk in changed times
A new UK regulatory regime calls for a more adept approach to risk management as Joeri Potters, Jeroen van der Hoek, Janwillem Engel discover
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Lack of consensus on pensions portability
Many questions remain over the portability of pensions directive and agreement among member states seems as far away as ever, as Violetta Polese reports
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How DB schemes lost their sheen
Unless DB schemes become more affordable, they may be completely absent from the market in a few years time, writes Paul McGlone
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What is driving the marketplace?
The asset backed market is set to grow and overtake corporate bonds in Europe. Joseph Mariathasan reckons this is just one of the changes facing active bond managers
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Facing up to a harsher future
Gail Moss reports on how investment houses are preparing for the new financial framework due to come into force in January 2007
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Keeping the first pillar in pole position
Luxembourg has a generous state pension system. But as George Coats reports, it depends on continued economic growth and a steady influx of cross-border workers
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Meeting the need to know
For global custodians, information is the new asset class. Across Europe, pension fund boards and trustees are coming under pressure from sponsors, accountants and regulators to provide greater transparency. To do that they need information, not only about the value of their assets, but how that value was created. As ...
