All IPE articles in July 2002 (Magazine) – Page 4
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Features
Custody award surprises competitors
One appointment by the NTMA that caused some surprise in the market was that of ABN Amro Mellon to the position of fund custodian. Observers had predicted that one of the larger custody players in Europe in terms of assets under custody might pick up the brief. Certainly with IR£8bn ...
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Titan annual changes
Dow Jones Indexes said it made changes to three of its Titans indices, as a result of the regular annual review. Five component stocks are being changed in the Dow Jones Global Titans 50 index – Chevron Texaco, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, PepsiCo, Barclays and AstraZeneca will be added ...
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Performance and attribution analysis
Such a high-profile public fund as the NPRF needed watertight systems to monitor both the performance and risk profiles of the investment managers appointed. For this, the NTMA looked to specialist providers in the market. On the performance side, performance analysis outfit StatPro picked up the mandate to provide its ...
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All embracing approach to protection
PRO BTP is an organisation created by the French construction industry for the French construction industry. Its job is to run the complementary system of social protection, insurance and pensions for more than three million people who belong to the BTP – ‘batiments et travaux publics’. The organisation was set ...
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All on the same spreadsheet
Siemens group office head office in Munich is gearing up for the end of the group’s financial year at the end of September, when the uniform asset management reporting system will come into place. All the group’s pension plans will be reporting their performance data according to a group-wide platform. ...
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All quiet on the western front?
To gauge the temperature of the NPRF debate, we asked a number of opinion formers in Ireland, including professional bodies, trade unions and employers’ organisations for their views The Panel Ann Fitzgerald – secretary general, Irish Association of Investment Managers (IAIM) John Feely – chairman, Irish Association of ...
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Mixed signals on the road ahead
UK pension funds “have had more thrown at them in the last 18 months than in the last 18 years!” is how one fund manager describes the turbulent UK pensions scene since the turn of the century. The lull in UK pension fund activity over the past 10 months is ...
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What next on the agenda?
With its passive managers in place from mid-January this year and the five active global equity and pan-European equity managers following soon after in early April, the NTMA had to set its sights on the daily monitoring of its managers and issues such as performance and risk analysis. The agency ...
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Challenge for active managers
Enhanced indexing is a quantitatively structured alternative to active management. Unlike indexing that seeks to replicate the returns of a market index, enhanced indexing seeks to exceed index performance, generally within some pre-specified risk parameters. Enhancements are generally achieved in two ways: q by the use of index futures in ...
