Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 762
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Features
Pensions that follow the members
They haven’t stopped running at the Novartis pension fund in Basle since the merger of the two chemical companies Sandoz and Ciba Geigy in 1995. Not only was there the merger of the two funds into one, but a string of divestitures of non-core businesses has continued, as part of ...
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The need for a broader index
The world economy grows, and shrinks, capital markets change, technology improves, crises rock the equilibrium and investors carry on adapting, fast. It has been well documented how the introduction of the euro would, at a stroke, create a huge new market that would provide a new melting pot for the ...
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Taking the regulators to task
In this month’s ‘Off the Record’ we asked about that most onerous of responsibilities – meeting the requirements of the regulator. No mean feat by all accounts… oops… did I mention accounts…. Seventy-five per cent of this month’s pension fund respondents say that regulations are one of their greatest causes ...
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Robeco's private-equiteers
Dutch financial services group Robeco has decided private equity is a sector it can no longer afford to ignore. It recently scored a coup by pinching two of Europe’s best-known names – Ad van den Ouweland from the Dutch health workers’ fund PGGM and Harrie Meijers from general civil servants’ ...
