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Living in tougher times
Too high expectations regarding the development of the pension industry in Germany during this year have resulted in disappointment among the asset management community. The forecast growth in assets that the pension reform was supposed to bring into the institutional arena has not materialised, partly due to market conditions but ...
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Power of Master KAGs
If there is a development in the German market that could change the structure of the asset management industry as a whole, is the development of the ‘master KAGs’, a new multi-manager structure that has hit the headlines of the German financial press during the last few months. The development ...
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New product shakes up market
In June the Austrian parliament finally adopted the government bill reforming the country’s severance pay system that will definitely have an important impact on the development of occupational pensions. The discussions regarding the reform of the statutory severance pay, the Abertigung, started in the late 1990s when the Austrian Trade ...
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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 ...
