All Features articles – Page 427
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Nordic markets go 'open'
The Nordic market for investment funds has experienced a huge growth during the past few years. According to the Swedish Mutual Fund Association, the size of the investment fund market in the region – including Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland – amounted to e168bn at the end of last year, ...
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Harmonising property taxes
Tax harmonisation across the European Union (EU) would be an effective tool to stimulating further growth in the property investment market there, Nick Jacobson, managing director of Real Estate Investment Banking at JP Morgan Chase & Co in London, told the IPD/GPR European Property Strategies conference in Wiesbaden. “Tax laws ...
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Stakeholder on menu
The introduction of stakeholder pension schemes in the UK form the basis of a major overhaul of the UK’s pension fund industry, Dick Stratton of William Mercer told the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) annual conference in Birmingham. “Stakeholder pensions signal a major change to the pensions landscape,” he ...
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PPM sets a model
PPM sets a model Both the Nordic region and the rest of Europe are looking at Sweden. The new Swedish Premium Pension System (PPM) is attracting the interest of fund managers and pension professionals across the continent. It’s still early days, but some believe, that this system will be the ...
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On the road to respectability
Although the hedge fund industry has grown enormously over the past five years or so, pension funds and their institutional investors have been somewhat slow in warming to it. “The interest shown by the Swedish pension fund industry is a relatively new development,” says Eddie Dahlberg, managing director of the ...
