All IPE articles in July 2004 (Magazine)
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Features
Index-linked index
Fixed income market operators MTSNext has introduced the EuroMTS Inflation Linked government bond index, which uses real-time tradable prices. The index is to be calculated and published twice daily at 11.00 and 16.00, with a real-time index to be introduced this month. The purpose of the index is to represent ...
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Shaking off the peer group
One of the main distinguishing factors of Irish pension funds is that they have been and to a lesser extent today continue to be heavily invested in the domestic equity market. This is not so unusual in itself, of course, except that investing up to 30% of one’s portfolio in ...
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Making funded plans more secure
Pension insurance systems can be an important component in maintaining the viability of defined benefit (DB) systems by providing a safety net in cases of sponsor insolvency with underfunded pension obligations. However, creating such a system does not solve all the problems. Such insurance funds already in existence have suffered ...
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A day at the races
While many larger, unionised companies in Ireland have maintained their defined benefit (DB) schemes, privately-owned building firm John Sisk & Son took action to shift the risk element towards its staff – well in advance of the recent stock market turmoil. The company runs two DB schemes: the executive scheme ...
