Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 661
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Features
Clamping down on costs
There is more pressure than ever on pension funds to keep a lid on their costs. “That’s because of the current environment,” says Ron Hitchens, financial controller of the Xerox pension fund in the UK. “Falling markets and therefore falling values of pension funds are happening at a time when ...
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Sharing the upside
Inherently the concept of performance fees is appealing. The plan sponsor only pays for performance when the manager delivers, and the manager has additional motivation to perform. However, a lower fee is poor compensation for cost of the poor performance it accompanies, and managers, in the pursuit of higher performance, ...
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Mapping out the road ahead
It wouldn’t have been hard to guess the theme dominating the concerns of CEOs from Europe’s leading asset management houses over the last year, but seeing it in black and white (pages 2-9) brings it home that much more firmly. Current equity market conditions, of course, are stretching the minds ...
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Irish launch for Mercer 360
Mercer Investment Consulting has launched a new product allowing smaller Irish pension funds access to international investment managers. The new service, Mercer 360, combines the investment consulting experience of Mercer with the fund management skills of Attica Asset Management. Attica provides manager of manager products in the UK, and is ...
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Who's for private equity?
Pension funds have been identified as one of the factors that could help in the development of the European private equity industry. The European Venture Capital Association says that it has identified 10 indicators – of which five are tax related – which can contribute to “shaping” a favourable environment ...
