All Features articles – Page 321
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Reforming zeal of a big-picture man
If there is such a thing as a European pensions ‘time bomb’, then Frits Bolkestein, member of the European Commission responsible for Internal Market, Taxation and Customs Union, is one of the individuals most likely to help defuse it. This year’s IPE Award for Outstanding Industry Contribution goes not just ...
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Putting currency in the blend
We believe a sound investment approach for enhanced cash and short duration portfolios is through diversifying portfolios across global fixed income and currency asset classes. We view cash management in terms of actively managing along a risk spectrum, defined by the duration of the portfolio and the allocation to various ...
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Money market funds come in from the cold
The only sure-fire success for a fund promoter in recent times has been to offer investors some form of safe haven. Anything that has provided the promise of low volatility and a return of the invested principal has found a willing buyer. Money market funds have been one such success. ...
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Coming out of the woods
It is cold in Stockholm but asset managers are happy. The market recovery has translated into new mandates for some Swedish houses, with the rest contenting themselves with the fact that the worst is probably over. At a safe distance from the downturn, managers say it had its benefits. The ...
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Committed to flexibility and customised pensions
Still the largest pension fund in the Netherlands, with over a million active members, 700,000 inactive members and 700,000 pensioners, ABP is the self-administered occupational pension scheme for the Dutch public sector. Aside from pensions, it offers disability and death benefits for survivors and dependants. ABP’s long-standing defined benefit structure ...
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Confidence index rises
Institutional investors’ confidence rose in October, according to a new State Street index. “The October index shows investor confidence rose 1.7 points to 104.2 from a revised September level of 102.5,” says State Street. It added that the increase continues the trend seen throughout much of 2003. Confidence was at ...
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Consolidating platforms
Industry utilities have a reputation for procrastination and entropy, but over the past five years Euroclear, the Brussels-based international depository, has displayed an admirable determination to seize the initiative and, even more unusually, to bite the bullet when it comes to making tough choices. The merger between fellow ICSD Cedel ...
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Quality services at an optimum cost
The London Pensions Fund Authority, set up in 1989, is one of the largest administrators in the UK of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). It has 73,000 members from this scheme, and includes more than 220 employers. As well as this, the LPFA operates nine agency administration contracts, covering ...
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Information is a special duty for creator of web
The CERN Pension Fund – the fund of the European Organisation of Nuclear Research – was set up in 1955 to insure members, beneficiaries and family members against the financial consequences of disability and old age of members, and death of members and beneficiaries. CERN is a non-profit research laboratory ...
