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  • Features

    Making liabilities the measure

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    The switch in mindset needed to adopt liability-led approaches in Irish portfolios is happening, writes Joe O’Dea, who examines the impact this will have

  • Features

    Putting youth appeal into pensions

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    How can pension funds persuade the young that pensions are important and should be taken seriously? Gerda Smits and Wieke Everts report on an initiative to involve young people in workplace pensions

  • Features

    Good fishing in property pools

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    Property investment managers must be inventive finding properties suited to pension funds’ strategies. Pensions provider and asset manager Cordares has responded by setting up international pools for unlisted property, as Leen Preesman discovers

  • Features

    Head for homes

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    It is boomtown – and not just in Berlin – but caveat investor: European residential has little to bind it as an asset sub-class, Shayla Walmsley finds

  • Special Report

    Tapping into the Green agenda

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    Real estate investors need to keep abreast of sustainability issues if they want to add value while protecting existing assets, Scott Muldavin argues

  • Features

    Breaking with tradition

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    Institutional investors in France are increasingly widening their net as they hunt for greater performance and diversity. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports

  • Features

    In the pipeline?

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    While developers flock to seize the opportunity of Moscow real estate, institutional investor interest remains cautious – for now at least. Christine Senior reports

  • Features

    It's hot in Helsinki

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    Continued investor exuberance over Finnish real estate will depend on bigger, better portfolios and further expansion outside the capital, as Shayla Walmsley explains

  • Features

    Market report: compelling case

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    Allthough small, at only 1% of Europe’s real estate in value terms, Finland is undergoing one of the most profound changes of all European markets. On the one hand, there has been a surge of demand to invest in the market over the past two or three years. Domestic institutions ...

  • Features

    Capital flowing?

    February 2007 (Magazine)

    Following INREV’s Investment Intentions Survey a roundtable was convened to discuss the results and develop themes arising from them

  • Features

    Slovakia consolidates its pensions offering

    January 2007 (Magazine)

    Since introducing a mandatory pillar system two years ago Slovakia has seen some local players fall by the wayside, writes George Coats

  • Features

    Elections may delay reform in Romania

    January 2007 (Magazine)

    While on the verge of introducing second and third pillar pension funds, the political will behind the reforms could be on the wane writes George Coats

  • Features

    FOfs up an average 1%

    January 2007 (Magazine)

  • Features

    Hungary tilts balance towards equities

    January 2007 (Magazine)

    Radical pension reform in Hungary continues apace despite a recent government admission about the state of the economy, writes Krystyna Krzyzak

  • Features

    Poland leads part of the way

    January 2007 (Magazine)

    Although it is the biggest and most developed CEE market, Poland has to catch up with practices elsewhere, writes Krystyna Krzyzak

  • Features

    Custodians warm to what CEE has to offer

    January 2007 (Magazine)

    While varying from market to market, the trend is towards business growth and more open-ness, writes Heather McKenzie

  • Features

    Baltic States now making rapid strides

    January 2007 (Magazine)

    As the local economies take off, the knock on effect for pensions is highly positive, writes Krystyna Krzyzak