Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 713
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Features
Front-to-back office systems
Pension funds and asset managers are under pressure to diversify their investments to meet growth targets, while the choice of financial instruments available to them grows ever wider and more complex, as does the range of markets across the globe, including a growing number of online trading platforms. Investors need ...
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That old eggs-and-baskets question
The collapse of the US energy giant Enron, and the impact of this on the company’s pensions plan, has placed a question mark above defined contribution (DC) schemes in general and 401(k) plans in particular. More than 60% of Enron’s 401(k) retirement plan was invested in company stock and Enron ...
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The shape of things to come
Numerous articles have been written about the demographic need for pension reform as countries across Europe struggle to come to terms with their ageing populations. The responses of individual European countries have been varied, as each, to a greater or lesser extent, moves from state provision towards private funding. The ...
