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Nordic markets look for more
The market for asset management in Sweden is notoriously overcrowded, and for years a feature of Stockholm’s financial scene has been the large number of asset managers looking for a limited amount of institutional business. “There are few markets that have the same level of competition and the same number ...
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Too close for comfort?
On the face of it Finland’s tightly regulated pensions market, constrained by funding issues, might seem to offer rather infertile terrain for dynamic asset management. But while Finnish asset managers find their hands tied in certain respects, they and their clients are forging closer relationships. Too close for comfort, some ...
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Hitting the right mark
The message from the asset management community in Denmark is broadly: ‘It’s still tough out there but it has been a lot tougher.’ In part the difficulties are a result of changes as pension fund and other institutional investors reassess their positions after the 2000-2002 market collapse. But it is ...
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Bond market is the key
Being small and in the middle of the Atlantic make Iceland easy for asset managers to overlook. Its prosperity, fully funded pension system and outperforming equity market mean that it is probably a mistake to do so. “Given the number of people living there it’s an interesting market,” says Peter ...
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In the sky with diamonds
The pension fund of Dutch national airline KLM was launched 70 years ago to provide pensions for its pilots, cabin crew and ground staff. There are three distinct funds to cater for the different and mostly very individual needs of the three groups of employees. At the end of last ...
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Going beyond performance
Difficult markets and lower returns have caused pension funds to look ever more closely at performance, either of internal or external portfolio managers. At the same time, they want to examine their risks in more detail, and in conjunction with performance. This has led to a demand for systems and ...
