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Norway's funds take stock
Norway’s hard-pressed life insurers and pension funds have enjoyed a brief respite over the past year. This has been provided by the Norwegian stock market which, helped by rising oil prices, has strongly outperformed international equity markets. Norwegian equities rose 25% in the first nine months of 2004 and 120% ...
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Hitting the right mark
The message from the asset management community in Denmark is broadly: ‘It’s still tough out there but it has been a lot tougher.’ In part the difficulties are a result of changes as pension fund and other institutional investors reassess their positions after the 2000-2002 market collapse. But it is ...
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Smooth transition launches streamlined new structure
To ensure its future success in a fast-changing pensions market, Munich-based Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK), an independent pensions holding company with over 1.5m active members and retirees and a capital value at 31 December 2003 of €31.4bn, felt it needed a new structure that was not only cost-effective, efficient and transparent ...
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Nordic markets look for more
The market for asset management in Sweden is notoriously overcrowded, and for years a feature of Stockholm’s financial scene has been the large number of asset managers looking for a limited amount of institutional business. “There are few markets that have the same level of competition and the same number ...
