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JP Morgan makes 'master KAG' move
Global custodian JPMorgan Chase has gone into the ‘master KAG’ business in Germany. “Our aim is to strip out the administrative part of the JPMorgan Fleming KAG and decouple the asset management from this,” says Arnulf Manhold, business executive of the US bank’s investor services in Frankfurt. From the beginning ...
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Is this really on?
The months of July and August have long been known as ‘the silly season’ in newspaper circles. In keeping with this fine tradition comes the recent story in the Boston Globe newspaper that Citigroup is looking to purchase State Street – a story that, on the face of it, would ...
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Shedding light on funds
The fund market information service, FERI FMI is making further strides in its coverage of cross-border funds distribution. The firm already offers a directory, a growing number of in-depth single market reports and various sales analysis tools. Its latest product, FundFile, is the culmination of many months of research and ...
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Lose your constraints
Claire Smith A couple of years ago, currency overlay mandates were fairly few and far between. Most pension funds left overseas currency exposures unhedged and those that did seek to manage them sought, in the main, to expunge the risk and accept the resulting profit or loss as simply part ...
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Delivering the performance
Most investors recognise that currencies have a large impact on the returns of international and global portfolios. By selecting a multi-currency benchmark, the investor, implicitly or explicitly, makes decisions on a set of underlying assets and on the desired level of embedded currency exposure. There is a need to analyse ...
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A tale of two indices
Are emerging markets currencies a source of pain or pleasure? Looking at MSCI EMF equity index returns, investors might be forgiven for thinking the answer is always ‘pain’. However, the ELMI+ index of currency forward contracts tells a potentially more pleasant story. Given the significant return volatility patterns evident in ...
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Increase your options
The creation of the euro played a bad trick on currency managers. To begin with, currency managers had strong performance and information ratios, and this was managed with only 20 currencies (which given cross hedging gave a fair opportunity set). A number of research studies suggested that the alphas in ...
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Most thumbs are up for the directive
This month’s Off The Record looks at the European directive on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (IORPs) – the pensions directive – and asks what has really been achieved? The directive, recently approved by the Council of Ministers (Ecofin), is a key element of the ...
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Absolute rules
Chastened by the experience of a three-year bear market in equities, European pension funds are moving from away from traditional benchmarks and relative returns toward ‘liability-driven’ strategies and absolute returns. Certainly this is the picture that alternative asset managers, and some traditional asset managers, are painting. Mark Rosenberg, head of ...
