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Features
Europe's investors respond to ETFs
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are increasingly being used by institutional investors in Europe. This can be gleaned from figures that show that the use of US-listed ETFs and the similar HOLDRS vehicles by European institutional investors has grown 20% faster over the year to end June 2003, compared with the ...
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Breeding for Brussels
This month’s Off the Record looks at the issue of demographic ageing and the problem of who will pay the pensions of Europe’s pensioners in the future. The topic has been well rehearsed. The solution has not. First, the problem: Europe’s population is set to shrink over the next 50 ...
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The viruous circle of transition management
The tricky proposition of simultaneously restructuring portfolios while changing investment managers can be daunting for even the most sophisticated pension fund sponsor. If badly handled, a transition can severely impact the health of a pension fund. Transition managers allow pension funds to allocate assets efficiently – both with reference to ...
