All IPE articles in July 2001 (Magazine) – Page 2
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Features
Irish property trust finds streets paved with gold
If there was ever a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it has been Irish property investment. This certainly has been the case for pension funds using the Irish Pension Fund Property Unit Trust, based in Dublin. This specialised vehicle was originally formed in 1967 to provide ...
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A European stock exchange
A little over a year ago we were tempted by the prospect of a merger between the Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Well, nothing became of the proposed iX but Euronext, the joint venture between the AEX (from Amsterdam), Brussels Exchanges and the Paris Bourse has gone ...
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Dutch funds go scheme-specific route
The phenomenon of peer group comparison as a benchmark to judge an internal or external money manager is, although extremely common within pension funds in the UK, not used in the Netherlands. In Holland the use of scheme-specific benchmark is widespread. The basis for the strategic asset allocation is usually ...
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Silent and deep at Merrills
The removal of RBS Trust Bank and Lloyds TSB Securities Services from the global custody equation – the first swallowed up by The Bank of New York, the other falling victim to a predictable post-merger realignment of priorities – left a London-shaped hole in the business that a number of ...
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Custodians join the rating game
The ratings game has finally caught up with the custodian sector of the investment community, with Paris- based Fitch-AMR ready to publish the results of its first contract. “The development of the methodology to rate custodians and trustees is one of the major areas we’ve progressed in during the last ...
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Currency risk out of the closet
Many may not be familiar with the concept of a ‘currency benchmark’. It results from the explicit recognition of currency risk in a portfolio, and, for example, might be ‘World ex UK equities 100% hedged’. The ‘100% hedged’ is the key point here: the process of choosing benchmarks is in ...
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Mefop chooses on performance
Make no mistake about it. The Italians are deadly serious about developing their pension funds, adopting the latest and best from outside, but only after a thorough and rigorous analysis as to what they need and how it can serve their needs. This message came through very clearly at the ...
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