All Features articles – Page 274
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First time for Europe index
The first pan-European index for unlisted real estate funds is set to hit the market next year. Unfortunately, it will not give investors everything they need. One of the major barriers to entry for institutions looking at the private real estate funds market has been the lack of benchmarks. In ...
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Ever tightening spreads
Have corporate bond spreads come down too far? A two year rally has seen spreads almost halve in the sector as a whole, with high yield bond spreads down by over 500bp. In Europe spreads are even tighter than the US reflecting a persistent domestic bias that US bond managers ...
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Finns take a wrong turn
From January the mode of calculating the parliamentary pension in Finland will be changed. The pension will be calculated on the basis of the salary during the whole mandate of the member of parliment (MP); currently the pension is calculated on the basis of the salary of the last month’s ...
