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Watching the mighty fall
“High Yield Walloped Treasuries” – the headline on a recent Merrill Lynch research paper describing the huge outperformance enjoyed by the US High Yield sector over 10-year US Treasury bonds during the month of March. Sadly for the European counterpart, there have been no such headlines over here. In fact ...
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NTMA names final seven managers
Ireland’s National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has announced the final seven managers to run the unallocated E2bn of the National Pensions Reserve Fund’s E8bn in assets. Lord, Abbett & Co has been appointed to run a E410m portfolio of north American value equities. A similar-sized mandate for growth equities has ...
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New Star's six long-only funds
The London-based investment fund manager, New Star International is launching – pending approval by the Central Bank of Ireland – six new long-only equities funds. The new funds are sub-funds of the proposed Dublin-based, open-ended investment company (OEIC). Philip Goldsmith, managing director of New Star International, believes it will be ...
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Whether to take it or leave it
If the current low interest rate, low growth environment persists across Europe the question of annuities is likely become contentious. The value of annuities – which is linked to the performance of bonds – has fallen with interest rates. As defined contribution (DC) pension plans mature, people are discovering that ...
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A life more rewarding
As defined contribution (DC) schemes become more popular with companies, it is increasingly important that they provide satisfactory investment and education programmes for their members to enable them to make suitable decisions about their long-term pension savings. An appropriate long-term strategy for a DC plan differs in many ways from ...
