Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 679
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Features
Europe is going specialist
With global financial markets continuing their struggle, many European pension funds are taking a closer look at their portfolios, and an increasing number are switching their assets into specialist mandates. A recent study by Mercer Human Resource Consulting revealed a 64% increase in specialist mandates in Europe over the last ...
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Bear limps along
Economic data is once again the driving force behind the performance of Europe’s equity markets, with analysts playing down the significance and impact of the Iraqi parliament’s unanimous decision not to allow weapons inspectors to return to Iraq. “It’s not something that we can afford to ignore, but oil prices ...
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Investing in a cold climate
Three years of falling equity markets in Sweden have acted like a cold shower for the institutional asset management in Sweden and their pension fund clients: initially acting as a shock to the system, but ultimately invigorating. Fund managers have shivered but emerged fitter from the experience. Many of the ...
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Denmark switches lanes
It’s hard to avoid the traffic lights in Denmark these days. When the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (DFSA) introduced its two new colour-coded stress tests to assess the financial strength of life insurers and pensions institutions, Danish pension funds suddenly found themselves slamming the brakes on a steadily rising exposure ...
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Finns cross boundaries
This has been the year when asset liability management reasserted itself in Finland in the light of difficult markets and the need to meet tight solvency regulations. While the investment trends that became apparent at the time of the euro introduction are still evident, the focus has clearly shifted to ...
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Norway's place for money
The institutional market in Norway is a notoriously difficult market for asset managers to enter. There are three broad reasons for this. The first is that the is market controlled by a handful of large players. The second is that the pension fund business is too fragmented to be lucrative ...
