All articles by Fennell Betson – Page 6
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Commodities 'bull market'
The only place where there is currently a pure bull market is in commodities, investment guru Jim Rogers told the SuperHedge conference in Frankfurt last month. Allaying investor fears that commodities are dangerous, the author of bestselling books ‘Hot Commodities’ and ‘Adventure Capitalist’ pointed out that economic history shows there ...
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Researcher sees ageing changing job structures
NETHERLANDS - The effect of ageing on western economies could mean dramatic changes in job structures, says professor Axel Borsch-Supan of the University of Mannheim.
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UK making “terrible mistake” with PPF - academic
NETHERLANDS - A leading US pensions academic, drawing on experience of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., has said the UK is making a “terrible mistake” with its new Pension Protection Fund.
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Back on a roll
Things are coming back together again - that’s official - but not as we knew them. Ron Logue, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, has slid his legs firmly under the CEO’s desk at State Street’s new HQ building in Boston. He clearly feels at home and relishing the challenges ahead. “The 1990s ...
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Commodities now the only ‘pure bull market’
GLOBAL - The only place where there is currently a pure bull market is in commodities, investment guru Jim Rogers told the SuperHedge conference today.
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German hedge fund market seen doubling
GERMANY - Hedge funds in Germany are set to double from an investment of currently €15bn to €30bn euros by 2007, the SuperHedge conference was told today.
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MTS reports strong trading growth in 2004
EUROPE – Overall trading volumes of the MTS Group, Europe’s premier electronic fixed income market, hit €17 trillion in the period January to November, up 9% on the same period in 2003.
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LCP unveils specialist consulting services
UK -- Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) has launched two specialist practices, LCP Trustee Consulting and LCP Corporate Consulting, to offer advice to the trustees and corporate sponsors of pension schemes.
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HPM to break chair link with BTPS
UK – Hermes Pensions Management (HPM), the asset management arm of the British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), has announced that from next month it will separate the roles of its chairman and that of chairman of BTPS, which owns 100% of HPM.
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Pension funds back LGT private equity fund
SWITZERLAND – The London Pension Fund Authority, Sweden’s AP3 and AP7, the London Borough of Hillingdon are among pension funds investing in the Crown Private Equity European Buyout Opportunities fund, which has announced its closing at 392 million euros.
