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Innovative combination of tools ensures reserves aplenty
Denmark’s biggest pension fund, ATP, with more than Dkr300bn under management and covering practically 4.9m members in the public sector, undertook a restructuring last year of its risk management process by reviewing two key areas: asset-liability modelling (ALM) and asset allocation adjusting. The two go hand in hand and ATP ...
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Too long the unloved asset
Most individuals know how much cash they have and why they keep it. Curiously, institutional investors have a more difficult relationship with money. Cash is often neglected, or regarded as an inferior investment, if an “investment” at all. More recently, however, many pension funds have started to reconsider their position ...
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Real-time asset-liability testing reduces the stre
With its Pension Risk Management (PRiMa) concept, MetallRente, the Berlin-based pensions fund provider for Germany’s metal industry, believes it has achieved true innovation in pension fund management with the creation of a real-time asset-liability management framework. The two areas of the German pension reform bill in 2001 that received the ...
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New avenues in residential
UK residential investment offers investors low risk high returns. Residential has many attributes that lead us to recommend it as a core holding for a balanced investment portfolio. The UK residential market has largely been ignored by commercial property investors (residential accounts for 2% of UK property investment according to ...
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Going beyond performance
Difficult markets and lower returns have caused pension funds to look ever more closely at performance, either of internal or external portfolio managers. At the same time, they want to examine their risks in more detail, and in conjunction with performance. This has led to a demand for systems and ...
