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WORK and pensions secretary James Purnell is to launch a study into the impact of means-tested benefits on personal accounts.
11 February 2008
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Global
GLOBAL - Pension funds with in-house investment management may have suffered more during recent market disarray than those schemes using external managers, research by leading industry figures has suggested.
11 February 2008
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Fixed Income
Justin Pugsley explains how technological advances in the way international trade is financed could open up a new kind of short term investment for pension funds
11 February 2008
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Australia
NEW ZEALAND - Superannuation funds delivered negative returns for the fourth quarter of 2007, recording a median return of -1.7% for New Zealand investors, according to Mercer's latest survey of fund managers.
11 February 2008
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US
US - Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) have awarded two emerging market mandates in the first stage of their portfolio restructure.
11 February 2008
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Uncategorised
THE aggregate deficit of the 7800 defined benefit schemes monitored by the Pension Protection Fund rose to £61.2bn in January 2008, latest figures reveal.
11 February 2008
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Custody
Specialist manager evaluation firm Inalytics uses quantitative processes to identify a quality previously thought unidentifiable - manager skill. Rachel Alembakis reports
11 February 2008
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Press
Buy-out specialist approached over Prudential; SocGen unveils €5.5bn emergency fundraising; Bank of England likely to miss inflation target;
11 February 2008
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Australia
AUSTRALIA - The Brisbane Supreme Court has banned superannuation business Instep Super from operating and advertising because of misleading and deceptive conduct.
08 February 2008
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Property
SELF-INVESTED personal pension and small self-administered scheme investors are looking to diversify away from mainstream commercial property funds and residential buy-to-let, Assetz Fund Management says.
08 February 2008
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