Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 608
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Features
Currency managers do it all the time
The Russell/Mellon survey of actively managed currency accounts* continues to grow in its coverage. Last year’s results indicate that managers on average can add value in this type of mandate across a broad spectrum of investor’s currencies.The survey of active currency overlay managers is conducted on a quarterly basis ...
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Working within constraints
Norway’s pension funds are highly regulated, at least as far as funding and investments are concerned. Kjell Taftø, managing director of the Trondheim Kommunale Pensjonskasse, says that the need to produce an minimum annual level of return restricts investment freedom. “I would like to see fewer regulations, particularly in the ...
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Bucking the trend
On average pension funds in Sweden allocate 55% to 60% to equities, making them somewhat more risk friendly than some of their counterparts in continental Europe. But where the funding position is more comfortable, it seems that funds will happily move towards a more conservative position. An example of such ...
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Too local for comfort
At the Novartis Pensionskasse, one of Switzerland’s leading pension institutions, the mood for risk is muted. Exposure to equities was reduced from 31% at the end of 2002 to 16% a year later; the target for this year is 20%. “The markets are still rather over-valued,” says Gino Pfister, pension ...
