Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 715
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Features
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 ...
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Come out of your silos
For an industry that is meant to be forward looking and agile, it is surprising how the fund management community have allowed themselves to stay a couple of steps behind the companies that they buy and sell. UK fund managers have traditionally structured themselves along geographic lines. This means that ...
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Risk management challenges facing global players
Risk in investment is getting into the news rather more in the present decade. The obvious stimulus to this attention is that investment markets are producing poor returns (risk is seen as dull in bull markets), but we can cite three new factors at work in addition to this. o ...
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Diversification key continental trend
In 2001, continental European funds continued both to outsource the management of their assets and shift their asset allocation strategy. These are key findings of our study of investment management in continental Europe conducted in the summer of 2001. For three years, we have charted the shift in asset mix ...
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Taking a long term view
Equity markets around the world have taken a beating over the last two years and most analysts are focused on trying to work out whether there will be a rally this year. Here we take a longer-term perspective and consider the question of what returns we can expect for equities ...
