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Pension assets go on growing
Pension fund assets in Europe continue to grow in spite of the downturn in global financial markets. IPE’s annual survey of Europe’s leading pension funds shows that the top 1000 funds now account for E2.3trn in assets, up from E2.1trn last year. A total of 47 of the top 100 ...
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World-wide phenomenon
The past couple of years have seen an explosion in activity in ETFs outside Europe and the US. And it shows no signs of abating, despite recent disappointing market conditions which have led some investors to turn away from indexed products. Key developing markets include Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and ...
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No overnight US success story
The huge success of exchange-traded funds comes as no surprise to the people who pioneered the product. But over the nine-year history of the portfolio tool, there have been times where many doubted ETFs would ever gain more than peripheral acceptance. Paul Aaronson, now executive managing director of Standard & ...
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The ETF operating environment
An Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) or ‘tracker’ as it is known in continental Europe is a single share that gives the investor the benefit of exposure to a broad benchmark, sector, country or geographic zone in a single transaction. Essentially ETFs, allow you to enjoy both the flexibility of a ...
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Explosion of new products
It hasn’t been long since the first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were launched in Europe but the growth and development that this market has experienced during the last couple of years have been quite significant. Although the ETFs concept arrived in Europe around seven years after it first appeared in the ...
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Dutch still have hands on assets
Externally managed Dutch institutional assets are still on the rise according to our latest report on the Dutch institutional investment management market-place. Total Dutch external institutional assets managed totalled E309bn at the start of this year. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), the total amount of Dutch pension ...
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Reconciling different shareholders' views
There are essentially four major players in the provision of and management of pensions. An understanding of the objectives of each can be very illuminating when considering how they should and how they actually do interact with each other. This ‘Game Theory’ formulation has a clear, explicit macro objective, namely, ...
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Time for new products
It is obvious by now that drastic measures are required to handle the looming pension crisis in Europe as – because of demographic developments – a smaller number of salary earners will need to pay for the state pension income of an increasing amount of pensioners. European governments and professional ...
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Rumour of death exaggerated
Last July the US stock funds suffered a $52.4bn withdrawal, the second biggest cash-out as a percentage of assets and the largest ever in dollar volume. A healthy portion of mutual fund assets comes from contributions to individual retirement schemes like 401(k) plans and IRAs (Individual retirement accounts). To many ...
