All Securities Services articles – Page 25
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Flying below the radar
The E400m Belgian industry-wide construction scheme, FSE-FBZ, finished a major asset transition in May last year. The scheme is essentially a social fund, of which part will become a pension fund in the future. It was due to this change that restructuring was being undertaken. Because of the size of ...
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ABP, USS in warning over global drugs industry
Two of Europe’s largest pension funds, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP and the Universities Superannuation Scheme, have warned of continued “downward valuation” of the global pharmaceutical industry. And they’ve called for a new acknowledgement of the “mutual inter-dependence” between drugs firms and shareholders. The comments come in a new report called ‘Pharma ...
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Going beyond performance
Difficult markets and lower returns have caused pension funds to look ever more closely at performance, either of internal or external portfolio managers. At the same time, they want to examine their risks in more detail, and in conjunction with performance. This has led to a demand for systems and ...
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Why securities lending adds value to your portfolio
With markets bringing in significantly reduced returns over the last couple of years, pension funds have been put under pressure to maintain their performance in order to fulfil future pension obligations. In the light of this subject, the word that passes most lips and hands is the ‘coverage-ratio’. According to ...
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No fund is an island
Few investment and pension administration applications nowadays operate entirely on their own – most need to be connected to data sources, or reporting, back office or other systems. The internet has simplified the connection to external sources. But the piecemeal implementation and connection of internal systems can lead to inefficiency ...
