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Leading from the front
The €11bn private equity mandate awarded by Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM to AlpInvest Partners has taken Dutch institutional investment in the asset class to a whole new level. But will this kick-start a renewed interest by other Dutch pension funds - particularly the smaller ones - in private ...
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Proving support for compulsion
There are over 700 pension funds in the Netherlands. Most of them carry out schemes for employees themselves. Eleven funds focus on the liberal professionals. These occupational pensions funds serve physiotherapists, marine pilots, artists, general practitioners, medical consultants, notaries, obstetricians, vets, pharmacists, dentists and the oarsmen of the Rotterdam port. ...
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The makings of a winner
Year-end prognostications about the evolution of the securities services product set are always an ill-advised enterprise – after all, it was only after the fourth year of commentators touting it as the next big thing that outsourcing finally deigned to take off as ‘predicted’. However, if I were a betting ...
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Are mega funds a mega trend?
Are the mega funds that have come to dominate the private equity landscape, dinosaurs? This was the question that Jon Moulton of Alchemy posed provocatively at the recent Super Investor conference in Paris to an audience of 500 representatives of private equity firms, investors, intermediaries and service providers. Moulton amusingly ...
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Asset allocation game
The asset allocation game was chaired by Karel Stroobants of Akkerman Stroobants in Brussels and focused on how the imaginary ‘Easy Going’ pension fund should handle its asset allocation, on which the attendees were invited to vote. Six asset management executives - Darrell Riley of T Rowe Price, Craig Scholl ...
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New Europe shows potential
Central and east European asset management markets are currently among the fastest growing in Europe. The markets are skewed by the compulsory private pensions system, which distinguishes the region from the ‘old’ EU, but growth is most rapid in the investment fund market, albeit from a low base. According to ...
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Global players home in
There is an air of eager anticipation among global custodians when it comes to providing services in central and eastern Europe. Interest in the region has been steadily building over the past few years and the accession of countries including Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the EU ...
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Rates on the move
After such voluble hints from European Central Bank (ECB) President Trichet himself, the first Euro-zone rate hike since October 2000 ought to have come as no surprise to the markets. Whether or not any move was necessary is less clear, however, and investors are not convinced that after this move, ...
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The Euro-zone bond success
It is now over six and a half years since the introduction of the euro, and in a recent article, PIMCO’s Emanuele Ravano suggests that the Euro-zone’s bond market should be viewed as perhaps the politicians’ biggest success story. Many of the statistics speak for themselves: The euro government bond ...
