Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 646
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Features
Starting on ten years of reform
In March 2002 the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia disappeared as its two remaining republics, Serbia and Montenegro, opted for a looser union with their own currencies, economic policies and customs procedures. While the union retains some federal structures such as foreign and defence ministries and a joint president, other institutions ...
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Norway's small adjustments mean big changes
On December 8, 2000 the Kvidal task force was appointed by royal decree. The mandate was to report on gender neutrality in retirement schemes for the private sector. The task force was also asked to give an opinion on denying the insurance companies and pension funds the ability to use ...
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The future for hedge funds
There are some expressions you read about in magazines and hear regularly at conferences these days that most people had never heard of a few years ago. One such expression now heard regularly is: “the search for alpha”. Another is: “absolute return investing for pension funds”. Even now, few of ...
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Keeping abreast of events
Few pension schemes can have their location in as historic a setting as An Post in Dublin. It is based at the General Post Office building in O’Connell St, where the 1916 Rising started with the reading of the proclamation founding a separate Irish Republic. The building is still the ...
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Doesn’t suit you, Sir
The other day Belle and I went into a car showroom. When we finally got to see a salesman, he said: “You’ll want a Volvo estate.” “Certainly not, we want a Lotus Elise,” I said. “Sorry, couldn’t sell you that. A beast like you would look silly, the Volvo it ...
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Dancing to our own tune
Although still very much tied to the fortunes of the global economy, Asian markets are increasingly dancing to their own regional tune. The attractive valuations and higher dividend yields in Asia have brought domestic and foreign liquidity into the equity markets and have certainly been a major contributor to their ...
