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Come out from behind that benchmark!
This month’s Off The Record was hastily rearranged to pull together your views on the recent out-of-court settlement reached between the Unilever Superannuation Fund (USF) and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), in one of Europe’s most high-profile financial court cases in years. We wanted to know what you thought the ...
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Currency change set to boost stocks
The physical introduction of the euro this month, when households, businesses and retail banks will start using and trading in euro-denominated bank notes and coins, is likely to have a positive effect on Europe’s equity markets, analysts agree “Though it is difficult to say what kind of impact the changeover ...
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Crossing the boundaries
The European market for pension fund consultants is effectively two markets - a mature and an immature market. In UK the Netherlands and Ireland, where their role is well understood, consultants are firmly entrenched. Elsewhere in continental Europe, however, consultants are far less established. This has created opportunities for continental ...
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Bulgarians still tied to home
Bulgaria’s first privately managed pension funds were established in 1994. But no special law regulated their activities until 1999. Unlike other countries, which did not allow foreign investment during the initial stages of their private pension systems, the Bulgarian legislature looked at this issue in 1999 when the special second ...
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Start of manager close down
From being joint top-of-the-class Poland is now the subject of disapproving looks from the headmasters of Brussels. Having taken on an enormous reform of the social security, education and health system in 1999, the new government which came to power in September last year is grappling with macro economic problems ...
