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SEBASTIAN CHEEK looks at the merits of using non market-capitalisation based indices for passive equity allocations and assesses if this is the best way to deal with concentration risk

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has highlighted the risks faced by schemes with concentrated equity portfolios – with BP, the firm at the centre of the crisis, making up a sizeable portion of...

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