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Preparing for the long haul
While German insurance companies and investment banks have been gearing themselves up for the new Riester market, the significance of the developments in German has not escaped foreign players, in particular, with an eye on the huge predicted asset flows in Europe’s largest economy. International asset manager, Invesco, is one ...
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Challenge for active managers
Enhanced indexing is a quantitatively structured alternative to active management. Unlike indexing that seeks to replicate the returns of a market index, enhanced indexing seeks to exceed index performance, generally within some pre-specified risk parameters. Enhancements are generally achieved in two ways: q by the use of index futures in ...
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What next on the agenda?
With its passive managers in place from mid-January this year and the five active global equity and pan-European equity managers following soon after in early April, the NTMA had to set its sights on the daily monitoring of its managers and issues such as performance and risk analysis. The agency ...
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Mixed signals on the road ahead
UK pension funds “have had more thrown at them in the last 18 months than in the last 18 years!” is how one fund manager describes the turbulent UK pensions scene since the turn of the century. The lull in UK pension fund activity over the past 10 months is ...
