All Features articles – Page 397
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A big 'Yes' for the euro
The arrival of euro coins and notes on the streets of Europe – the new kid on the currency bloc – is a milestone on the road to monetary union. As the UK labour peer Lord Radice remarked, the idea of 300m Europeans using the same euro notes and coins, ...
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Watch for the bumps in the road
There is mounting conviction in the markets that the synchronised slowdown in global growth – one of the worst on record – is close to ending. The principle of ‘first-in-first-out’ keeps the focus firmly on the performance of the US economy. The news flow emanating from there over the last ...
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New tenants in the house of cards
Hunker down for a chat with a custodian these days and, sure as apples is apples, soon enough the conversation will turn to outsourcing. To be fair, custodians can be forgiven for getting somewhat over-excited, given that they spent most of the latter part of the 1990s talking up the ...
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Cautious optimism on equities
We have a long-term, strategic asset allocation that stands at 3% cash, 57% bonds and 40% equities. Our current allocation differs only slightly from this long-term view, containing 43% equities, 56% bonds and 1% cash. The fourth quarter of 2001 was marked not only by the aftershock of the 11 ...
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Why Euro groups must centralise
As the New Year rings in the euro, how much evidence is there that European companies are adopting a more centralised approach to benefits management at the same time as they start using the single currency? The reasons for a more centralised approach are compelling. Employee benefits represent a huge ...
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'History of change' launch by MSCI
Morgan Stanley Capital International has launched a product to help researchers which shows all the historical rebalancings which have been made to its indices. The MSCI ‘History of Change’ (HoC) provides details on index rebalancings made to all MSCI Equity Indices since 1988, but does not include market-driven changes such ...
