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Features
Aiming to be leaders rather than followers
SPK is one of the oldest pension structures in Sweden, and when Peter Hansson arrived there from the banking sector in 1993 he sparked a serious overhaul of the fund structure and administration. Although a declared opponent of ‘beauty contests’, when the time could be spent implementing strategy, Hansson made ...
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Tax breaks needed to get assets moving
A year ago Spanish companies were working against the clock to meet the government’s deadline for externalising their pension reserves through a pension fund or an insurance contract before the end of the year. The industry, which has been quite since the first pension funds were created at the beginning ...
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Features
Short-lived solvency
As part of a new fiscal plan, the Spanish government has announced modifications that aim to promote the country’s underdeveloped funded pensions system. The new measures, including fiscal reductions for companies and more flexible limits to contributions for pension plans, have been welcomed in the corporate and financial communities. “The ...
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Features
Eyes fixed on reserve fund
This year has seen a slowdown in the creation of new pension funds in Portugal. The awaited reform of the social security system, the real key to the future development of the industry, has not yet materialised, and although the debate is still alive, so far no major steps have ...
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Features
Gescartera probe fuels political row
What began as an investigation into the activities of Spanish brokerage company Gescartera has developed into a political crisis for the ruling Partido Popular (PP), and a worldwide search for embezzled funds and ‘black money’ accounts Casualties already include the head off the stock market’s regulatory body and a senior ...
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Pension funds hit hard by equities slump
The growth of an equity culture has been one of the success stories of continental European investment over the past 10 years, and pension funds have been an important part of this. Funds in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the Netherlands in particular have steadily increased their exposure to equities to take ...
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Special Report
Exploiting the correlation
Compelling evidence is emerging that strong financial performance and sound financial management are increasingly linked. Much has been written over the past few years about the presence or absence of a relationship between the environmental and financial performance of companies. On balance, most evidence suggests that a positive relationship does ...
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Features
Living with increased volatility
Over the past 10 years, capital markets have been subject to a series of shocks. In the foreign exchange markets, the prime examples have been the ejection of sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and the collapse of a number of the Asian currencies in 1997. In the bond ...
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Features
Post the 11th
Reports in the media suggest that the terrorist attack in the World Trade Center on September 11 have ‘changed the world forever’. For those directly involved that must tragically be true. However, in the broader sense, what has changed in the professional lives of those of us involved in the ...
