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Features
Market report: Spanish property funds look to east Europe for new opportunities
Spanish pension funds have only fractionally increased their allocations to real estate over the last decade but Spanish property funds have enjoyed a boom and are now looking at eastern Europe as residential property prices cool off in Spain.
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Waking up to real estate
Hungarian pension funds currently have just 1.15% of their managed assets in real estate. But change is afoot, as Marianna Lukács explains
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Downturn proves short-lived
While the Icelandic stock market fell by 20% last year on fears that the economy was overheating, this scare has proved to be an overreaction, as George Coats reports
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Double-digit returns mark goodyear
Many funds increased their exposure to equities last year but there were some exceptions to the rule, as George Coats discovers
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Moving away from home
Funds look global as expectations of a domestic market correction boom, George Coats finds
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Managers assess fallout from Swissfirst
The Swissfirst scandal has rocked the pensions industry, but managers in Switzerland feel there is no need for root-and-branch reform. George Coats reports
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Room at the inn for non-Swiss custodians
While the market for custodians in Switzerland is ruled by local players there is space for providers with international reach. Heather McKenzie reports
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Occupational savings accounts - made in Germany
In a country that has traditionally been dominated by the state pay-as-you-go system, Murat Ünal examines an innovative vehicle that is a growing part of the debate on the future of German pensions provision
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What managers really do
To identify ‘skill’, it is now possible to measure the moves and decisions that a manager makes. Rick di Mascio reports
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Polished display from Pensioensfonds Metaal
A more specialist approach and less dependence on consultants has helped the Pensioenfonds Metaal scheme in Belgium increase its assets six-fold, writes David White
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Dynamic strategies for pension funds
Are dynamic investment strategies a realistic alternative to static strategies for Swiss pension funds? Can a simplified ALM model be used to evaluate a pension fund’s financial decisions? St Gallen University has just released interesting research on this topic
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Special Report
European SRI tops €1trn
SRI investments in Europe’s nine major markets have increased by 36% over the past three years, according a new report from Eurosif. Jérôme Tagger reports
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Special Report
A duty to litigate?
The case for European pension funds to take part in US shareholder litigation is becoming so strong that not to do so could be regarded as a lack of fiduciary responsibility? Roy Jones, Darren Check and Daniel Summerfield explain
