Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 458
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Features
Re-balancing the rate of risk
Iain Morse looks at how two pension funds, Henkel and PME, are addressing risk in management of liabilities
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Euroclear edges towards conformity
Euroclear has taken another step in its aim to harmonise clearing and settlement in the countries it covers on to a single platform.
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Looking at the year ahead for funds
IPE asked three pension services – in France, Italy and Romania – the same question: ‘What challenges and opportunities will you face in 2008?’ Here are their answers:
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Weighing up the benefits of indexation
This month’s Off The Record looks at the issue of the indexation of pensions.
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Rights and wrongs of default funds
Customised default funds or blanket solutions, choice or guided decisions. The issue of creating the right default funds for defined contribution systems was the subject of discussion among Nobel Laureates, academics and investment specialists at Pioneer Investments’ second European Colloquia in Vienna.
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North Cyprus reforms pensions
Social Security reforms to harmonise the retirement benefits of public and private sector workers came into force in Northern Cyprus on 1 January.
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Spring cleaning your portfolios
Too many pension fund portfolios get cluttered up with unwanted exposures. Optimal rebalancing offers a way for asset owners to get back to strategic asset allocation weights in a highly cost-effective way. Andrew Capon and Sébastien Page explain how it works
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The index issue
MSCI Barra has responded to the new-found interest in frontier markets with the launch of a dedicated frontier markets index.
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A new triumph for economic liberalisation?
Frontier emerging markets are attracting interest. Proponents say they are a natural step in a rapidly developing and globalising economy and not just a reaction to overvaluations in the other emerging markets. Joseph Mariathasan explores the latest additions to the investible world
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Sofia Group gives region a voice
CEE pension associations formed an ad-hoc working group during an August 2006 meeting of pension representatives in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Diversifying asset management
Cultural, economic and political variations remain but Krystyna Krzyzak finds that investment styles are converging
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Widening the investment universe
Bulgaria’s €365m Doverie welcomes the relaxation of regulations but says there’s still some way to go, finds Thomas Escritt
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Coping with high inflation
Wages and economic growth fuel advances in the Baltic asset management industry, Krystyna Krzyzak reports
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Investors risk averse
Credit concerns re-emerged in November as the US sub-prime problems worsened, leading to large-scale risk aversion by investors. This had a negative impact on hedge fund performance, resulting in the Eurekahedge Fund of Funds index ending the month down 1.5% .
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Volatility returns to the market
November was marked by a sharp fall in stock markets, as can be seen from the average returns of the S&P 500, in spite of a rally at the end of the month in anticipation of an imminent reduction in the US Treasury’s intervention rate.
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Special Report
SRI mutual funds growth
SRI mutual funds across Europe continue to grow, both in terms of numbers and assets under management, according to corporate social responsibility ratings agency Vigeo Italia.
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Delivering a seal of approval
In the third of a series of articles based on a new study*, Amin Rajan and Jervis Smith highlight the ascendancy of third-party administrators
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Taking advice on advisers
There is a great deal of discussion about what liability-driven investing is exactly. So what clear advice is there for the investor? Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Watch out for the gorilla
What do CIOs think this year will hold? Pirkko Juntunen asks 11 of them
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Patience and time
Silvio Vecchi, CEO and CIO of the European Patent Office’s pension scheme, tells David White of the importance of patience and time in avoiding the turbulence of the capital markets – a successful strategy given the fund’s growth
