All articles by Fennell Betson – Page 5
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FUND FORUM: MAN CEO on investable hedge indices
MONACO - Investable hedge funds indices were given the thumbs down by a senior industry figure at the Funds Forum conference.
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FUND FORUM: Germany piles into derivatives
MONACO - German investors have moved huge volumes of assets into the derivatives and certificates area, says Martin Theisinger, managing director for Germany and Austria at Schroders Investment Management.
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FUND FORUM: Fund market at “standstill”
MONACO - The European investment fund market is not growing in real terms, says Diana Mackay, managing director of Feri Fund Management Market Information.
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FUND FORUM: Horlick on Deutsche Asset Management
MONACO – Nicola Horlick, the high profile former Deutsche Asset Management UK fund manager, has spoken about her recent reported attempted to buy the firm.
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The Dutch revolution
“The Dutch pensions industry had come from being a virtually unknown pension power 10 years ago, to being the global pension revolution leader today,” said Keith Ambachtsheer, academic and strategic adviser to pension plans. Ambachtsheer, who runs KPA Advisory Services in Toronto, was one of the high profile speakers to ...
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Dutch system seen as global pension leader
NETHERLANDS – “The Dutch pensions industry had come from being a virtually unknown pension power 10 years ago, to being the global pension revolution leader today,” said Keith Ambachtsheer, academic and strategic adviser to pension plans.
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Luxembourg insurance expert James Ball dies
LUXEMBOURG - It is with great regret that IPE announces the very sudden death of James Ball, head of insurance and employee benefit consultants JBI Deloitte in Luxembourg.
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ABP rejigs investment process in drive for alpha
NETHERLANDS - Europe’s largest pension fund ABP has restructured completely how it goes about managing its assets. The E170bn fund has switched to being predominately in-house managed and is 100% on an active basis dedicated to producing alpha.
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Revolution at the top
Europe’s largest pension fund, the mighty ABP has turned its approach to investment inside out. The equity portion of the E170bn portfolio that was 75% externally managed just three years ago, is now two-thirds internally managed. The 45% that was on an indexed basis has fallen to zero – the ...
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Simplicity is the key
Commodities are Jim Rogers’ investment passion. As a measure of their neglect by other investors, he puts forward a simple observation: “There are 40,000 mutual funds for stocks and bonds, but you cannot find five mutual funds investing in commodities.” Rogers, a co-founder of the Quantum fund, and best-selling author ...
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BVK spreads its wings
Germany’s biggest pension provider, the multi-employer Bayerische VersorgungsKkammer, is about to become bigger. It is to add another occupational group – the psychologists – to the 12 already covered. “This is a brand new arrangement with just 1,000 members to start with, so for reasons of economy of operations, they ...
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UK Pension Commission looking at annuity market
UK – The Pensions Commission will be looking at what tax and regulatory changes are needed to reshape the working of the annuity market, the commission chairman Adair Turner said in London.
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Dutch pensions research network launched
NETHERLANDS - The Netspar pensions research network has been formally launched at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
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Dutch PM speaks out against early retirement
NETHERLANDS - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has spoken out strongly against early retirement – adding that the new levensloop marks a crucial change of direction.
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Managers: focus on return
Last year US pension funds’ median return was 11.7% for corporate and 12.5% for public funds, according to Russell Mellon universes performance data – a good result. But it is the legacy of the past five years that has done the damage, with annual returns averaging just 3.6% for corporate ...
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Business pioneers
There was no fanfare to announce the birth of commission recapture story in the US. It goes back to 1986, to two almost platitudinous observations: A Department of Labor pensions bulletin which commented that broker commissions are an asset of the pension plan and that the administrator of the plan ...
