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Systems ‘unsustainable’
Look at the future of retirement saving, and it is not a pretty sight. This was the message from Matthew Young, director of special projects at the Adam Smith Institute, to the Pensions Management Institute’s spring conference. With the loss of 0.5% of the workforce every year in the UK, ...
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‘Untouchable’
The National Pensions Reserve Fund in Ireland was purposely structured to enable it to match the returns achieved by private pension funds, the fund’s main architect, finance minister Charlie McCreevy told the recent UK and Irish Pensions & Investment Summit in Dublin. “The fund’s investment strategy and management was conducted ...
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Private equity comes of age
Is private equity beginning to grow up and graduate from being a fringe asset class to being accepted as a fully fledged member of the investment community? The fact that it is now going through some performance problems is almost reassuring in itself. There was, for some years, a concern ...
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A man for all weathers
Aegon may trace its roots back to 1844, but chairman of the executive board Kees Storm, thankfully skips nearly 150 years of history, when bringing you up to date on the insurance group’s recent performance. Post 1983 is the start of modern times for the Dutch insurer in his view, ...
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Pension funds score better
All compulsory industry-wide pension funds in the Netherlands have ‘passed’ the first performance test of the Z-score system introduced in 1998. The results were published last month by the Asociation of Industry-wide Pension Fund (VB) and the Company Pension Fund Organisation (OPF) Under the Z-scores system pension fund boards have ...
