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Why securities lending adds value to your portfolio
With markets bringing in significantly reduced returns over the last couple of years, pension funds have been put under pressure to maintain their performance in order to fulfil future pension obligations. In the light of this subject, the word that passes most lips and hands is the ‘coverage-ratio’. According to ...
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Time for Ireland to take steps to avoid a future pension shock
Recent statistics suggest that Ireland is less immediately threatened by the demographic time bomb than some larger economies. A younger population means our dependency ratios will not go critical until years after many of our European partners. In the words of the proverbial Irish optimist: “it could be worse”. But ...
