Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 594
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Features
Playing safe in Europe
The strengthening euro and the poor prospects for Euro-zone growth have combined to create a condition among Euro-zone equity investors which Rick Lacaille, chief investment officer at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), describes as “Eurogloom”. “At the start of the year, analysts had generally been too optimistic by an ...
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Pick your stocks carefully
After many years at rock bottom, there finally seems to be some definite upward momentum in US interest rates. Tom Elliott is strategist at JP Morgan Fleming: “The fact that the Fed is continuing with its policy of raising rates has reassured the market that the economic recovery is on ...
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Asset Class Reports
Those twin deficits
So the US has the same president for the next four years, and it seems to be a case of ‘better the devil you know’, as far as bond and currency market participants are concerned. For Bruno Crastes, head of global fixed income at Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM), bond ...
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EIB to issue 'longevity bond' to match UK liabilities
The European Investment Bank is to issue a 25-year £540m (E775m) bond as part of a product designed by BNP Paribas aimed at protecting UK pension schemes against longevity risk. “We welcome this opportunity to further enhance EIB’s appeal among pension funds, through a con-tribution that can add a new ...
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Features
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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Features
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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Features
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 ...
