Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 673
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Modified cash balance
B y mid-March 2003 a huge battle can burst out in the American workplace, involving up to 42m employees, who are still enrolled in traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans. At stake is the conversion of these plans into the so-called ‘cash balance’ retirement schemes, which was halted in September ...
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The Neyt legacy
The only guide to managing our pension fund assets are our liabilities – these are the raison d’être of pension funds. Never think asset only. You must not manage a pension fund like an investment fund. Your asset allocation is based on your liability characteristics. So if they are index-linked ...
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Hedge fund seeding
Growth in the hedge fund world is unprecedented and the future remains promising. After a decade of growth averaging 20% a year, analysts now predict that the annual growth rate for the next 10 years could exceed 25%. According to a recent study by Oliver, Wyman & Co and UBS ...
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Silence on role of custody
Custody services provider, Northern Trust, says the government’s recent pension reform proposals did not address a key aspect of the Myners report on the independence of custodianship. “We’re almost back to before Myners raised the question,” says Steven Hayward, head of UK pensions relationship management at Northern Trust. He says ...
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Large IPOs on fast track
Euronext has amended its rules, with the aim of allowing newly introduced large companies to be admitted more quickly. “After adopting general rules on the treatment of initial public offerings in June 2002, the Euronext Indices Steering Committee has decided to approval an additional rule which will see to quicker ...
