All IPE articles in September 2001 (Magazine) – Page 3
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Features
Time for calm reflection
The summer recess couldn’t have come at a better time for the prospects of the European supplementary pensions directive. If the mid-year break allows time for European parliamentarians, commissioners and politicians to reflect on the events of the year so far and ponder those to come, then they’ve had plenty ...
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B&W chosen
Consultant Bacon & Woodrow has been appointed to advise the Irish National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) on the selection of a global custodian for the e6.5bn National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF). The consultant was chosen from a list of 10 tenders. The size of the fund is set to increase ...
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Waiting for a head of steam to build up
Hopes for a recovery in UK equity prices have been dashed more than once this year. But fund managers are still cautiously optimistic that the market could yet push through key barriers to end the year higher than its summer lows. Over recent months, the market just about managed to ...
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'Taking to the streets' brinkmanship
It’s been business ‘comme d’habitude’ in France over the last 12 months – very little in tangible changes in the creaking French retirement system and protests in the street at the slightest mention of tinkering with the status quo. At the beginning of the year, French employer associations led by ...
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Way the wind is blowing
The arguments for using currency management have been widely publicised for many years, both from the perspective of lowering risk in a foreign portfolio, as well as enhancing active management returns. So why has it become even more important now for pension funds to re-assess their currency exposures? This is ...
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Making the big switch
The challenge facing the UK’s electricity industry a decade ago was that of converting its virtually monolithic industry-wide pension scheme into a system that met the needs of the new multi-employer environment. In meeting this challenge the industry, both on the distribution and generating sides, has worked unceasingly since privatisation ...
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Putting the case beyond doubt
The global asset allocation, which has been advocated by academic scholars and investment practitioners for the last two decades, produces a puzzling effect on the portfolios of pension plans. The puzzle stems from the fact that international assets offer ex-post diversification benefits to institutional portfolios while introducing an additional source ...
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