All Features articles – Page 436
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Asset allocation on a global scale
A growing number of multinational head offices are seeking to exercise some influence on the way their subsidiaries’ pension assets are allocated among broad classes. Indeed, a recent Towers Perrin survey of leading multinationals shows that the area in which head offices exert the most influence is with respect to ...
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Holistic benefit approach at GSK
In January last year multinational corporations Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham announced merger plans to create a global leader research-based pharmaceutical and research company. Last December, after months of negotiations and integration plans between the two companies, the merger was completed and the new organisation began trading under the name ...
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Wise men recommend four-pronged approach
A four-pronged approach to regulation of European securities markets should be adopted by Europe’s policymakers if barriers of “Kafkaesque inefficiency” to financial market development are to be broken down, says the final report from the Committee of Wise Men, chaired by Alexandre Lamfalussy, on the regulation of European Securities Markets. ...
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The need for a broader index
The world economy grows, and shrinks, capital markets change, technology improves, crises rock the equilibrium and investors carry on adapting, fast. It has been well documented how the introduction of the euro would, at a stroke, create a huge new market that would provide a new melting pot for the ...
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What Euronext means for local brokers
Napoléon once said, “France needs me more than I need her”. Looking at the performance figures of Euronext and the Paris Bourse for 2000, one is left to wonder who needs whom the most. The statistics announced show, as was suspected all along, that Paris is the engine driving Euronext, ...
