ITALY - Italy's multi-employer contractual pension funds underperformed the benchmark by 100 bp in 2003, registering returns of 5% on average.
In a year that saw equity markets lock in strong gains, Italian funds’ heavily concentrated fixed income portfolios saw much of the value to be had pass them by. “That’s a big issue,” said Wats...
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