Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 479
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Bridging the information gap
To what extent do the reporting requirements across Europe penalise smaller schemes? Rachel Fixsen investigates
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UCITS aids growth of ETFs
A more relaxed approach to regulation in Europe has helped stimulate the development of more exotic ETFs. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Need for pensions wake-up call
Both politicians and trades unions are concerned about pensions in Austria. Barbara Ottawa talks to some of the movers and shakers
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Keeping it Spezial
Despite competition from the world of mutual funds, Spezialfonds are still en vogue. Frank Schnattinger examines why
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Looking at alternatives and regulation
We asked three German pension funds to explain some of the important issues and challenges currently facing their investment strategies
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Tracking the corporate funding wave
CTAs and Pensionsfonds offer complementary management structures for corporate pensions, says Jan Wagner
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A warning against herd mentality
Gail Moss gives an overview of German pension institutions’ current asset allocation
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Politicians fail to deliver on pensions
Raising the costs of deferred compensation in Germany will push employees into the third pillar and damage occupational schemes, writes Klaus Stiefermann
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Weaving a national safety net
Inadequate state provision has led to the development of numerous private pension schemes for those who can afford them and a home-grown industry to market them. Now the industry is working out how to accommodate the planned new national security scheme, due to launch in 2010. Stephen Cranston reports
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Africa rides the Asian zebra
South Africa remains the continent’s superpower but Asian economic influence is increasing in Africa, writes George Coats
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A life in pensions with no regrets
Bengt Edström recently retired from his position as pension operations manager and internal consultant at the Swedish power utility Vattenfall Group, and as trustee for Vattenfall’s pensionsstiftelse, the group’s SEK5.5bn (€593m) DB pension vehicle. George Coats interviewed him
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The big shake-up
Following a vote in July 2006 by the International Accounting Standards Board to embark on a two-phase project to improve its IAS19 pensions accounting standard, Stephen Bouvier rounds up the developments to date
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Freedom brings new restraints
Funds are navigating their way around a new risk management directive, writes Barbara Ottawa
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Similar but by no means the same
In the US, HOLDRs and ETFs have some key features in common. But, as Lynn Strongin Dodds discovers, there is also much that differentiates them
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Going from strength to strength
Their tactical and strategic flexibility have made exchange traded funds an increasingly popular investment vehicle with institutions over the past few years. Rachel Fixsen looks at what has made them such as success
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US Treasury yields positive as rate cuts on hold
Yield curve/duration The oil price is on the rise, and indeed has been since the start of the year. There are a variety of factors all contributing to the higher prices: strong global demand, recent colder weather, production cuts from OPEC and tensions created by the capture of the fifteen ...
