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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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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
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Out of Africa
Although often seen as too risky, David White finds that the continent could be a useful outside bet
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Novel approach hits problems
The aggressive strategy adopted by speicalist pension manager, Pension Corporation, to gain control of pension funds, has attracted plaudits and criticism as David White reports
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For better or for worse
One of the deterrents of environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies is the perception of missing out on returns when investing in them.
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Taking to custody
Heather McKenzie finds that the wide variety of CEE markets, from Russia to Albania, are waking up to the need for financial infrastructure
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Slipping back into the cold
CEE pension funds face an unexpected source of volatility – politicians, George Coats discovers
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Revising the first draft
Hungary has modified its initial second pillar pensions architecture to introduce multiple portfolios, Thomas Escritt reports
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The credibility gap
Pension trustees have access to better education and training than ever before but, say observers, in an increasingly complex investment world, they may never have enough knowledge. Maha Khan Phillips reports
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A blessing in disguise
The retirement of the baby-boom generation, a lower fertility rate and increasing life expectancy will result in a relatively high number of elderly people whose income consists of benefits paid by the working generation and savings such as pensions and life insurance.
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Keep a wary eye on politics
Stefano Pighini recently left Italian energy giant Ente Nazionale per l’energia Elettrica (Enel) where he had been head of Enel pensions funds from 2002-04. George Coats asked him about his career.
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Do we expect too much of trustees?
Brian Holden argues that the current model of the part-time, non-specialist trustee cannot continue indefinitely
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Curse of the liquidity freeze
Yield curve/duration: Market liquidity often worsens as end-of-the-year housekeeping and the holiday season approach. It is a regular, usually seasonal, pattern. What is different about the latest year-end is that the bid/offer spread widening spilled over into the futures contracts for the first quarter 2008.
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Enigmatic as ever
Japanese companies are rightly praised for their stance on many responsible investment issues. But there remain some deep-seated structural problems. Richard Newell reports
