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Features
Foreign investors eye UK property
In preparing its window display to attract cross-frontier investment flows, the one thing the UK real estate industry has lacked in recent years is evidence of growth. The development of property derivatives and other types of financial engineering in property could never prove a total substitute for this essential element.Now ...
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Unison uncertainty as brokers merge
The future of the Unison consultancy network is in jeopardy as a result of merger plans between US in-surance giant, Marsh & McLennan - parent company of William Mercer - and Johnson & Higgins (J&H), the core of the Unison employee benefits network.The Unison network covers insurance broking as well ...
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Survey understates use of outside custodians in UK
The major recent survey by the National Association of Pensions Funds found that only 75% of 600 or so UK private sector schemes responding used an outside custodian. Among public authority schemes only 61% of the 56 schemes used outside custodians.But the NAPF believes these responses understate the true position ...
