Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 459
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Opportunities for quant to deliver missing alpha
Swiss private bank Wegelin & Co is planning to expand its footprint into Australasia in 2008. The asset management arm of Wegelin is a leading active quant manager, with $5bn invested in quant strategies ($20bn overall) of which $1bn is invested in single hedge fun
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Taking in the LDI marketplace
Lynn Strongin Dodds assesses the range of liability management strategies available to European pension funds
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Swap indices driven by LDI
Nina Röhrbein looks at the growing area of swap indices and their application within liability strategies
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Hedging for the cost of ice creams
Iain Morse describes the benefits and pitfalls involved in implementing a pooled liability fund strategy
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Policy review engages Polish funds
As the new government reviews its policy options, pension funds tell George Coats what they think should be on its agenda
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Looking forward to liberalisation
Two issues were predominant in the German fund market at the end of 2007. One was the planned introduction of a definitive withholding tax on income from capital assets from January 2009 at a rate of 25%.
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The elusive small cap gold
Large cap stocks may be set to outperform small caps, but the best active managers will be able to find opportunities whatever the market environment, says Joseph Mariathasan
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Looking for long-term solutions
Positioning a relatively new investment company is not always an easy feat when the world is stuffed full of boutiques and behemoths of all hues and everything in between.
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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
