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Calpers looks for investment talent
The giant Dutch scheme ABP is not the first large pension fund to encourage innovative asset management firms and invest in them. Another very well known fund, actually the largest in the world, the $170bn (e187bn) Calpers (California Public Employees’ Retirement System), took this decision in early 1999. The main ...
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Pension reform can't wait
Now is the time to tackle pension reform, European industrialist Carlo de Benedetti told those attending the ‘Defusing Europe’s pensions timebomb’ conference organised by the Friends of Europe body in Brussels last month. “Unemployment in European countries is today mostly a supply problem rather than a demand one. In the ...
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ECB resists rate cut mood
Only one to go? After the Bank of England’s careful quarter-point cut in early February, a move which followed similar actions from the central banks of the US, Canada, Australia, Denmark and even Japan, the spotlight turned, by default, on the European Central Bank (ECB). But no such rate-cutting announcement ...
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Essentials of success
As many European institutions are beginning, or considering beginning, a private equity programme, it is important to revisit a few essentials for what can make this a successful endeavour over the long-term. Any asset manager considering these important programme-building steps at the moment is, of course, doing so in a ...
