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Mercer expanding multi-manager service
International consultant Mercer says plans are “well under way” to expand its new multi-management service into the UK, Ireland and continental Europe following its US launch. The new business will use research into asset managers from Mercer Investment Consulting. Mercer says its Mercer Global Investments arm has now formally launched ...
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International investment tops
A new academic study has found that international investment brings better returns and that the reasons for limiting foreign investing are weak. “Data confirm theory that international investment allows superior investment performance in terms of risk and return,” says E Philip Davis, Professor of Economics and Finance at London’s Brunel ...
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Revolution at the top
Europe’s largest pension fund, the mighty ABP has turned its approach to investment inside out. The equity portion of the E170bn portfolio that was 75% externally managed just three years ago, is now two-thirds internally managed. The 45% that was on an indexed basis has fallen to zero – the ...
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Multinationals try to hold the line
Multinational companies based in the Netherlands are re-evaluating how much control they need to impose on their different pension plans around the world in light of ballooning costs and liabilities. But despite this increasingly close attention to their international liabilities and scheme designs – and the impact this is having ...
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Why quantitative asset management?
Quantitative models assist in dealing with the increase in available financial information through their great capacity for systematic analysis, which facilitates the identification of investment opportunities. The quantitative approach also presents the advantage of avoiding emotional reaction in the selection of stocks so as to act in the most objective ...
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Interest rate risk matching for pension funds
New regulations such as IFRS require pension funds to bring their interest-rate risk more in line with the interest-rate risk of their liabilities. This usually means that the duration of the fixed-income portfolio needs to be extended or the allocation to fixed-income investments increased. The latter would mean that there ...
