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Features
UK pension funds report second year of negative returns
UK pension funds reported the worst returns last year for more than a decade, according to performance measurement consultants WM Company. WM says it is the second consecutive year of negative returns, the first time this has happened since it began its UK pension fund survey in the mid 1970s. ...
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Wait for rout to be over
Plagued by serious structural problems, Japan is still a market for only the bravest of investors. Things can’t get much worse, strategists say. But is this necessarily an argument that improvement is on the horizon? Among the optimistic voices, Mike Collins, chief strategist with Pictet Asset Management in London, says ...
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Cautious optimism on equities
We have a long-term, strategic asset allocation that stands at 3% cash, 57% bonds and 40% equities. Our current allocation differs only slightly from this long-term view, containing 43% equities, 56% bonds and 1% cash. The fourth quarter of 2001 was marked not only by the aftershock of the 11 ...
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Watch for the bumps in the road
There is mounting conviction in the markets that the synchronised slowdown in global growth – one of the worst on record – is close to ending. The principle of ‘first-in-first-out’ keeps the focus firmly on the performance of the US economy. The news flow emanating from there over the last ...
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Laying the foundations
At the end of last year, an era in Austria pensions came to end, as Helmut Kapl retired as head of the APK-Pensionskasse group he had done so much to build up. But, he is not going quietly into the twilight of retirement. He has a number of irons in ...
