Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 655
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Features
'Conflict free' fund service
Major consulting firm Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow(HBW) has introduced the Fund Delivery Service enabling UK pension funds to choose investment funds from a wide range of managers, but on a basis that claims to avoid any conflicts of interests. This is for defined contribution and smaller defined benefits plans as ...
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Reducing equities but buying Asia
Many feel that we could be now at a major turning point in the equity markets. Some argue that the strong performance since mid March shows that the equity market is going for a recovery in the economy. Some indicators indeed were quite positive, first quarter company earnings were in ...
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'Avoid UK's mistakes'
In these days of heated debates on a European Constitution it seemed appropriate that the IPE/Royal Institute of International Affairs conference in London entitled: ‘The Future of European Pensions’, should commence with a conciliatory message from Alan Pickering, chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) that there are ...
