Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 590
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Features
Positively challenged
IPE asked three pension funds – one small, one medium and one large – in three countries – Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK – the same question: “What do you see as your major challenges in 2005?” Here are their answers: Steen Jørgensen, managing director and CEO of ...
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A1 at Lloyd's
The job of the Lloyd’s Register is to examine merchant ships and classify them according to their condition. The highest classification, ‘A1 at Lloyds’, indicates by the letter A that a ship’s hull is in first class order and by the number 1 that the trappings are also sound; in ...
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Ever tightening spreads
Have corporate bond spreads come down too far? A two year rally has seen spreads almost halve in the sector as a whole, with high yield bond spreads down by over 500bp. In Europe spreads are even tighter than the US reflecting a persistent domestic bias that US bond managers ...
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Swiss MM starts to motor
One particular feature of the Swiss pension fund market has been a big driver in the development of multi-manager investment. “Swiss pension funds have been in the vanguard when it comes to hedge fund investment, with some very substantial allocations. And hedge fund investment almost always uses the MM approach”, ...
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Minister with a mission
How does a deeply religious man who wanted to become a missionary grow into one of the most powerful politicians in the Netherlands? Aart-Jan de Geus is the Dutch secretary for social affairs and employment and oversees the country’s pensions and social security reforms. We take a closer look at ...
