All IPE articles in July 2001 (Magazine) – Page 3
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Features
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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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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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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Fund of funds take off in Spanish market
The Spanish asset management industry has gradually increased its range of investment products, and both international funds and SICAVs and domestic SIMCAVS are gaining weight within the whole Spanish investment market. In the last few years the market for investment funds in Spain has grown in size and, for some ...
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Sitting out the summer gloom
Plagued by fears of looming recession, investors in Japanese equities are now playing a waiting game. The reforms outlined by new prime minister Junichiro Koizumi have given the market hope that longstanding problems, particularly in the banking sector, could finally be resolved. But weak economic data are keeping the mood ...
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Transparency the hedge issue
On the back of plunging markets, pension schemes have been rudely re-awakened to negative returns for the first time in many years. As a result, headspinning research papers debating alternative investment, particularly in hedge funds, are firmly back in the ‘in-tray’ of pension fund managers around the continent. So, where ...
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Irish vote 'just a hiccup'
The purpose of the Nice Treaty, signed by the European member states in February, is to complete the programme of institutional reform designed to prepare the EU for a significant expansion in its membership. It is absolutely key to the EU enlargement process. The European press certainly had a field ...
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Why SPIFs are ideal for investors
German investment law provides institutional investors, which are legal entities, the opportunity to organise – in a particularly efficient manner in terms of both management and taxation – their real-property investments already existing in Germany or are going to be effected there. This can be carried out through interposing a ...
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Incentives needed for pensions push
Despite a volatile round of EU summits over the past six months, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is still on course for fast track entry into the EU. Nevertheless, pension reform is moving at the same pace as a tourist’s hillside donkey on the holiday hotspot. While a revamp of ...
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