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Pension assets fall
Assets held by the world’s largest 300 pension funds fell by 12% according to research by consultant Watson Wyatt and Pensions & Investments. Assets of the largest 300 funds totalled $5.43trn (E5.5trn) last year compared with $6.17trn at the end of 2000. The drop is in sharp contrast to growth ...
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Living in tougher times
Too high expectations regarding the development of the pension industry in Germany during this year have resulted in disappointment among the asset management community. The forecast growth in assets that the pension reform was supposed to bring into the institutional arena has not materialised, partly due to market conditions but ...
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Power of Master KAGs
If there is a development in the German market that could change the structure of the asset management industry as a whole, is the development of the ‘master KAGs’, a new multi-manager structure that has hit the headlines of the German financial press during the last few months. The development ...
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New product shakes up market
In June the Austrian parliament finally adopted the government bill reforming the country’s severance pay system that will definitely have an important impact on the development of occupational pensions. The discussions regarding the reform of the statutory severance pay, the Abertigung, started in the late 1990s when the Austrian Trade ...
