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Actuaries past sell-by date?
Across Europe, demand for actuarial services has ballooned as corporations and their pension funds struggle to comply with new regulations and accounting standards. In some areas, there are now signs that the peak is past, but how has the industry coped with the call on its skills? Malcolm Campbell, vice ...
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Not all on the same hymn sheet
“Historically, pension funds gave all their assets to one manager. Then they realised that one manager could not outperform over every asset class. So they turned to specialists, and ended up with several asset managers, 10 or 12 reports, and a very complex structure. Multi-manager (MM) is the solution. It ...
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Separate alpha from beta
Many of the pension and asset management industry’s leading figures gathered at the Institutional Fund Management conference in Geneva in February to discuss key topics, including how to pursue alpha, the structure of trustee boards, and the best way to ‘work’ your assets. Mark Anson, chief investment officer for the ...
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Risk analysis vital for success
The current level of underfunding of corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans has raised awareness of the risks inherent in the plans – risk to plan members in the case of insolvency, risk to plan sponsors relative to the need to make large contributions, risk to governments (or their agencies) ...
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Hedge funds by another name
According to Mercer’s study of UK pension fund asset allocation, tactical asset allocation (TAA) is also anticipated to become more popular, with the proportion of schemes using TAA expected to rise from 3% in 2004 to as much as 10% this year. David Tucker, of the UK arm of Australian ...
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Real estate attractions explored
Delegates to the first IPE Real Estate European Investor Forum, held in Barcelona last month, gathered to hear some of the leading lights of the real estate industry talk about current issues, global real estate markets and the investment options open to pension funds. The one-day event was organised by ...
