Asset Allocation – Page 70
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Dutch schemes seek to raise risk profile to boost funding
Pension funds want to reduce interest rate hedges as as they seek to improve solvency
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Joseph Mariathasan: The decline of India's infrastructure buyers
Time for a rethink of India’s infrastructure policy to tap foreign institutional money
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Equity markets boost large Dutch schemes in first quarter
PNO Media cites 7.6% profit on equity, while KLM and PGB also record strong results
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Union clashes with Royal Mail over hybrid pension scheme
CWU argues for equity-heavy investment policy for replacement scheme
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: When diversification fails
What do Swiss pension funds do when risk budgets are stretched and diversification has failed? Barbara Ottawa reports
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
With the eight anniversary of the risk asset rally passing in March, many have taken the opportunity to compare the longevity of this bull run to previous ones
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: A diversification call
Gail Moss writes that French pension providers are looking to diversify their asset allocation to counter political and economic uncertainty
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Ticino maintains aim
Pierre Spocci, director of the Istituto di Previdenza del Cantone Ticino, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the pension fund’s stable strategy
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Insurers more upbeat on credit after expectations ‘reversal’
Most insurers no longer think the credit cycle is in its final stage
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ATP plans equity shift to Europe, EM, away from 'overvalued' US
Danish pensions giant makes highest quarterly return in five years on Danish stock picking
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Private equity fundraising breaks more records in 'saturated market'
Unused capital also continued to rise, hitting $842bn at the end of Q1
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Development banks mobilise €151bn of private capital
Cash put to work in infrastructure and other assets in 2016 by private investors, pension funds, and other institutional investors
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Joseph Mariathasan: Pension fund trustees' top five mistakes
Prioritise asset allocation over small matters and maintain a long-term investment time horizon
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Dutch retailer scheme doubles mortgages allocation, cuts private equity
Asset allocation overhaul at €4.3bn Ahold Pensioenfonds also sees unlisted real estate dropped
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Pension funds' ETF use to grow 'modestly': Vanguard
Schemes often use cheaper alternatives, such as index funds and separate mandates
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Norwegian sovereign fund's returns outweigh oil revenue for first time
NBIM reports third-best quarterly performance in sovereign wealth fund’s 21-year history
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Uncertainty focuses minds
German pension investors continue to diversify their assets against a backdrop of political uncertainty, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country Report
Asset Allocation: Investors embrace change
The latest Willis Towers Watson risk-management study reveals the ongoing challenge that German pension funds face in meeting their liabilities
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Asset Class Reports
Asset Allocation: Defining Europe for investors
Investors looking to invest in European equities have to decide on what countries to include as well as exclude, as their choices could have significant impacts on portfolio performance, finds Joseph Mariathasan
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
So the world economy continues to expand, albeit at quite a modest pace. Many observers remain cautious that this upswing will go the way of all the other post-financial crisis recoveries and run out of steam, perhaps soon. But the synchronisation of these reflationary signs across the world gives others hope that the current growth upturn will be sustained.