All Securities Services articles – Page 24
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Taking no prisoners
When the star of the cult Sixties TV show The Prisoner was not being pursued around the Welsh coastline by amorphous white blobs or grappling manfully with yet another convoluted, would-be existential conceit, Patrick McGoohan could be found securing his place in the glittering pantheon of pop culture with the ...
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Technology's pivotal role
German pension funds face a range of challenges depending on the organisations and members they serve, and the pressures upon them to adjust to the current market environment. Technology plays a key role in enabling them to operate more efficiently, manage their investments with greater sophistication and meet members needs. ...
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Hedge funds in the mainstream
Hedge funds have now moved into the mainstream with 32% of European institutions now using them, Greenwich Associates says. “Among European institutions, the proportion using hedge funds jumped to 32% in 2004 from 23% a year earlier,” the Connecticut-based consulting firm sasy. It added that US institutional use climbed to ...
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Dress rehearsal for Europe's pensions
As a centre for servicing investment funds, Ireland –or more precisely the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin – has been growing at a rapid rate. In the past year, according to London-based funds industry analyst Fitzrovia International, domiciled net assets in the Irish funds industry grew by more than ...
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Working to standards
Eighteen months ago, consultants and managers Russell kick-started the process of establishing a standard for measuring portfolio performance during transitions. The result is the T Standard, which sets out the success and performance of a transition. “From the word go, we didn’t want to say that Russell says this is ...
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Doubts over European long-only equity
European institutions including pension funds have expressed doubt about asset managers’ long-only equity returns in the future, according to a new survey organised by alternative investment groups. Thirty-percent of respondents to a survey organised by the Alternative Investment Management Association and IPM Informed Portfolio Management said their expectations of external ...
