Government Bonds – Page 17
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
As the US economy continues to recover, the hour when the Fed starts to tighten is approaching
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Special Report
GDP-linked sovereign bonds: Would investors buy them?
Some emerging markets have experimented with GDP-linked sovereign borrowing, and the Greek finance minister is the latest to discuss the idea. We ask whether investors would buy it
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News
Bonds, alternatives drive 12% return at DAX-listed company schemes
Liabilities on rise together with assets, consultancies warn
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News
Santander pension fund closes in on £10bn after 18% return
UK scheme for banking group makes raft of property purchases, implements new hedge fund strategy
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Features
Asset Allocation: Fixed income, Rates, Currencies - The big picture
Getting the big picture right always helps and sometimes it makes subsequent investment decision-making blindingly obvious. But so often there seem to be diametrically opposed eventualities, with ambiguity everywhere. The dramatic fall in the oil price, for example, is creating plenty of puzzlement.
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News
Ilmarinen boosts Chinese exposure, returns nearly 7%
Largest Finnish pensions mutual turns cashflow negative as baby-boomers retire
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NewsBoost in UK medical bulk annuities as Gilts provide discount pricing
Schemes trading medically underwritten contracts at 5-10% discount over traditional bulk annuities
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UK must offer annuity 'auto-protection' to counter DC freedoms
Centre for Policy Studies suggests government intervention in annuity market could appease right and left political spectrums
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News
HSBC Pension Scheme banks on annuities amid DC investment shake-up
UK pension fund to offer drawdown investment strategy as it prepares for DB member influx
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News
UK Debt Management Office concedes 'growing case' for CPI issuance
Pension funds continue to lobby DMO over issuance of index-linked Gilts based on consumer prices index
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News
Possibility of Greek exit already factored into portfolio – APG
Pension fund shifted strategic government bond allocation in favour of UK, US government paper
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News
Asset managers calm over risk of contagion from Greek election
Greek yields rise marginally after Syriza victory as Spanish, Italian yields continue QE-fuelled decline
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NewsFalling discount rates hurting Swiss schemes' funding – Towers Watson
Strong returns help offset damage to ‘certain extent’, consultancy says
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NewsPension funds warned over wait for UK Gilt real-yield improvement
AXA IM says real-yields on UK Gilts not expected over 0.5% in long term due to supply, demand pressures
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News
UK roundup: PPF 7800 Index, Partnership, medically underwritten buy-ins
Funding shortfalls at UK pension funds shoot up as Gilt yields falls dramatically in November
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News
NEST to replace cash, money market funds with short-dated Gilts
UK master-trust looking to ‘eke out’ extra return by matching Gilt funds with target-date fund maturity
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News
ERAFP to shift strategy after France lifts investment restrictions
Civil service pension fund to increase equity allocation after government allows 40% exposure to non-bond investments
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News
IPE Awards: Asset managers should look at wider investment horizon (video)
Christian Böhm, chief executive at APK, speaks at the IPE Conference & Awards 2014 on pension fund, asset manager relationships
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Asset Class Reports
Interview - DMO:We want to hear from you
Robert Stheeman, CEO of the UK Debt Management Office, tells Taha Lokhandwala about the importance of ongoing dialogue with institutional investors
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Special Report
Special Report - Emerging Markets: Fed up with volatility
The Federal Reserve-sparked ‘taper tantrum’ of 2013 revealed how sensitive emerging market currencies could be to interest rates set in the developed world. Caroline Saunders asks whether that volatility told us more about investor sentiment than fiscal fundamentals
