United States – Page 15
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Chart of the Week: DC overtakes DB in top seven pension markets
€35.6trn invested in 22 markets, Willis Towers Watson reports, with DC making headway in the UK, Canada and Japan
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Chart of the Week: 2018’s most popular asset classes
Public sector funds in the UK and US awarded almost 1,000 private equity mandates last year
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Opinion PiecesIs BlackRock set to revive annuities?
What can happen if the largest global asset manager teams up with the largest software company, which also happen to be the first and second largest companies in the world by market cap?
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FeaturesUS economy: Overpricing recession risk
Financial markets have suffered a nasty bout of indigestion since October. The interplay of sentiment and volatility induced widespread pessimism, with added concern that market tantrums could subsequently bleed into the real economy
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AP funds blacklist cannabis companies on UN convention grounds
Aurora Cannabis, Canopy Growth and Aphria excluded by Swedish buffer funds
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Special Report
US states move to fill pensions gap
States in the US are offering retirement savings plans to workers who are not covered by company-sponsored schemes
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NewsAccounting roundup: Discount rates on the rise
Also: DB, DC plan definitions under IAS 19; IASB staff still working on DC discount rate anomaly
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Beyond pensions: Debating auto-enrolment’s potential
Could auto-enrolment pension savings be used to pay off loans or buy a house?
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IPE Conference: EU should ‘use single market access to its advantage’
Former EU trade commissioner Karel de Gucht says EU ‘must remind Trump how valuable it is’
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: REITS a good long-term bet, says study
Investors have lost some of their enthusiasm for US REITs – real-estate investment trusts – after their poor performance in the third quarter. From July to September, the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index gained 0.5%, compared with a 7.6% return for S&P 500 over the same period. The return of the REITs index has trailed behind S&P 500 by more than seven percentage points for the first three quarters of the year.
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Asset Class Reports
FAANGS: Tech black swan in the wings?
The US technology giants could be hit by extreme risks
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Features
What next for US Treasuries?
A consensus on the direction of 10-year US Treasury rates is not obvious, because the answer reverts to a further question: whose consensus? Strategists, economists and other informed professionals have a particular view. The market itself, however, expresses a more diffuse and different opinion.
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AnalysisAnalysis: US proxy process under scrutiny – ESG under threat?
The SEC roundtable is bringing together stakeholders with diverging views on proxy advisers and shareholder voting. Sue Rust reports
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Joseph Mariathasan: Big decisions over China for Europe and the UK
Picking a side in the trade war ‘should be an easy decision’, Ashmore’s Jan Dehn tells Joseph Mariathasan
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Asset Class Reports
Investment Process: In search of an edge
Investors have to work hard to gain an information edge to successfully exploit small-cap markets
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Asset Class Reports
Small & Mid-Cap Equities: Small-cap effects
Some US smaller companies may benefit from America First policies but others will not
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Special Report
Markets & regions: Spotlight on US equities
US equities have proven overwhelmingly popular with investors desperate for signs of economic growth
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Special Report
Markets & regions: Using ETFs to position for a US–China trade war
Many media and market commentators believe that the potential US-China trade war could be one of the largest risks facing the global economy
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Special Report
The market: Transatlantic invasion
The Americans are coming! But unlike the US cavalry providing an 11th-hour rescue in the last reel of an old-time Western, these Americans are moving in on what they hope will be a lucrative European ETF market
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NewsMercer parent company to buy JLT Group for $5.6bn
Marsh & McLennan Companies announces deal to acquire Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group
