All Features articles – Page 319
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Whose hands on the tiller?
The importance of the asset allocation decision has been highlighted by the market volatility of recent years. This has encompassed phases when both equities and bond have moved in the same direction, albeit at different paces (mid to late 1990s) and the more recent past where performance has diverged radically. ...
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HSBC 'on a roll'
After years of drift, few would dispute that Global Investor Services, HSBC’s global custody division, is now on something of a roll. The custodian’s ranking as the number one player in R&M Consultants recent UK trustee and depository survey will certainly have come as a welcome fillip to Mike Martin ...
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UCITS III options for institutions
The arrival of UCITS III has provide some investment houses with the opportunity they have been looking for to package their funds for the European institutional market. Payden & Rygel Global, a UK based global fixed income specialist, has amalgamated its range of eight offshore bond funds into a single ...
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Why Lamfalussy is worried
Late last year the European Commission set up European occupational pensions regulatory and supervisory committees as part of a broad package which also saw the formation of committees to cover banking and investment funds. The European Council had asked the Commission in December 2002 to extend the committee structure applied ...
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Moulding yourself to the system
As pension funds and investment firms come to rely more heavily on technology, they need to know how to get the best out of what can be a considerable investment. Part of the trick is making the right choice of system, but much can also be gained or lost in ...
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State Street unveils 'virtual pooling'
Global custody group State Street is introducing a ‘virtual’ product for multinational pension fund asset pooling. “This enables pension fund assets to be legally, beneficially and directly owned by the funds participating in the pool,” William Slattery, head of State Street’s business in Ireland, said at the IPE Multi-pensions conference ...
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Bringing consistency to schemes in 19 countries
As a growing multinational with a young workforce, Vodafone faces atypical challenges when compared to more traditional companies. The pension benefits provided to its employees must be relevant to their expectations and must fit within a total reward package, which also has an emphasis on Vodafone shares. The Vodafone group ...
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Fund aims for 5% real estate share with overseas focus
To bring diversification into ATP’s overall investment portfolio, approximately 4.3% has been invested in property – equivalent to €1.4bn. The strategic goal is to reach a 5% allocation (+/– 3 percentage points) in property by the end of 2003. Until the beginning of 2002, ATP invested solely in Danish real ...
