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Social security creates space for DC plans
Portugal’s new centre-right government, which came to power in March, could provide a spur to the development of private pensions in general and defined contribution (DC) plans in particular. This appears to be the consensus of the country’s pensions industry. Publicly, the view is that nobody knows what the new ...
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Systems ‘unsustainable’
Look at the future of retirement saving, and it is not a pretty sight. This was the message from Matthew Young, director of special projects at the Adam Smith Institute, to the Pensions Management Institute’s spring conference. With the loss of 0.5% of the workforce every year in the UK, ...
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‘Untouchable’
The National Pensions Reserve Fund in Ireland was purposely structured to enable it to match the returns achieved by private pension funds, the fund’s main architect, finance minister Charlie McCreevy told the recent UK and Irish Pensions & Investment Summit in Dublin. “The fund’s investment strategy and management was conducted ...
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'A guide to currency overlay management'
Deutsche Bank Global Markets Research has published a 70-page report titled ‘A Guide to Currency Overlay Management’. The report concludes that “investors and plan sponsors should consider increasing their focus on both the risk of, and the potential returns from FX” since “historical performance data suggest that active management of ...
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Private equity comes of age
Is private equity beginning to grow up and graduate from being a fringe asset class to being accepted as a fully fledged member of the investment community? The fact that it is now going through some performance problems is almost reassuring in itself. There was, for some years, a concern ...
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The medium is the message
Investments are only as good as the information they are based on. In today’s world, there is no shortage of information and the problem has become more one of identifying the most relevant sources and integrating the information efficiently into the investment decision making process. New technology is making it ...
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A man for all weathers
Aegon may trace its roots back to 1844, but chairman of the executive board Kees Storm, thankfully skips nearly 150 years of history, when bringing you up to date on the insurance group’s recent performance. Post 1983 is the start of modern times for the Dutch insurer in his view, ...
