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Pension funds look in-house for governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... according to a Mercer survey. The Asset Allocation Survey and Market Profiles study examined 849 European and UK pension funds representing $642 billion in assets and found an increase in the number of funds beefing up their internal investment committee. ...

Regulator clamps down on conflicts of interest

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... governance arrangements and eliminate any potential conflict of interest. The report was drafted after a review of UK pension funds identified potential conflicts of interest as an area of concern. The guidelines cover how to identify, evaluate and manage ...

UK alternative weightings quadruple

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
UK pension funds now have record low weightings to domestic equities and record high weightings to international equities while weightings to alternative assets have quadrupled in four years, according to a survey by Pension Funds Online, the UK directory ...

UK funds earn 8.8 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... even clawed back most of the losses from the earlier in the decade and are up 30 per cent or more, he said. For UK pension funds however, good returns may be encouraging but the real problem is liability management. "There is no doubt that four consecutive ...

Multiport SMSF receives UK pension roll-over approval

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... announced that its wrap services had been granted similar approval. The UK legislation holds that roll-overs from UK pension funds to Australia may be taxed at 40 per cent plus penalties unless being rolled into a QROPS. "SMSFs had to be structured in ...

New global shares boutique for Australia

... approximately one quarter of their clients are US pension funds, around 20 per cent are Scandinavian pension funds, with UK pension funds taking up most of the remainder. Hamilton said that in Australia the "appetite for global equities is very positive ...

UK pension funds weaker than Oz

The UK pension funds market posted a second quarter return of 5.1 per cent amid rising fuel prices and weak company earnings affecting the global equities market during the same period. This is, however, the UK pension funds' ninth straight quarter ...

Risk-return numbers fail to tell the story

... information ratios have little predictive value. The group used data from between 1995 and 2003 for 2000 portfolios of UK pension funds equities managers across five regions, the US, UK, Europe ex-UK, Japan and Pacific ex-Japan. Information ratios are ...

UK pension funds to dump equity: IMA

A survey in the UK conducted by the Investment Management Association (IMA) has found UK pension funds could shift as much as stg150 billion away from the UK equity markets during the next three years. The report said the current 56% assets held by ...
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