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Wise men to advise parliament
The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs is to set up a panel of financial services experts to advise it on the package of measures outlined in the Financial Services Action Plan, which includes the European pensions directive and the Lamfalussy report. The panel will be composed of ...
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Measuring up to standards
Most large investment managers now comply with performance presentation standards according to new research from PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC received responses from 69 investment managers around the world for its report 2001 Global trends in performance measurement. The survey found that 95% of those who responded are either compliant with at least ...
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SFIM triumphs
Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) has won the mandate to run a pan-European equity portfolio for Procordias Pensionsstiftelse II. The active mandate, the size of which is not revealed, is to be benchmarked against the MSCI Europe (excluding Sweden) total return index, with the aim to outperform it by ...
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Alternatives join the mainstream
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to alternative investments in an attempt to boost returns, claims joint research undertaken by Goldman Sachs and Frank Russell. The report finds that since the last survey in 1999, the amount of funds committed by European investment houses to private equity has almost doubled from ...
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Spain takes up the reins
It’s easier to sparkle in a new role if a predecessor is seen to have failed dismally, and this is the case with Spain taking over the presidency from the much-maligned Belgians. In the few months prior to the handover at the beginning of the year, the prevailing opinion in ...
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Puzzling over the data
There’s still caution in the markets, despite positive economic data being circulated at the moment. “We’re basically waiting to see what direction this year is going to take,” says Catherine Reilly, an economist at Conventum Securities in Helsinki. She says that whilst she believes the markets have bottomed out, investors ...
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Taking a long and hard look
Despite a tough year marked by investment underperformance, it wasn’t all bad news in the development of the Irish pensions industry during 2001. First there was the announcement of the tendering process for the C7bn National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) and, a few weeks later the publication of the Pensions ...
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Opening up third pillar market
The long awaited Irish Pension Bill was finally published in July last year, providing for the introduction of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs). This new step was welcome by the industry as a good means of promoting the further development of the Irish market for retirement. There had been criticism, ...
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What next for investment?
Despite declines in the markets, equity investments were here to stay and investors should focus on the long term and stick to their strategic asset allocation. This was the message from panel members discussing their first topic of the session, namely, the future of the equity culture and focussing on ...
