Recently added articles from Financial Times Mandate:
Analysis: Consultant attacks fund recovery plans.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Henry Smith Many of the recovery plans drafted by underfunded pension schemes are "a fantasy", according to Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, a partner at investment consultants Redington. Speaking at an investment conference hosted by Aviva Investors in London recently, ...
Analysis: Doubt over BGI merger benefit.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Spencer Anderson Opinion is divided on whether BlackRock's $13.5bn (EU9.7bn) acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) will benefit clients. Officials from both firms were quick to emphasise that the transaction gave the organisation a much larger scale ...
News in brief.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Diversity still drives us investors The impact of the financial crisis has not deflected US institutional investors from their pursuit of portfolio diversification. Seventy per cent of 152 institutions surveyed by Greenwich Associates, continued to move money out of ...
Analysis: Market Analysis - Europe.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Andrew Allen 2008 was a major turning point for the European property markets, with all except Switzerland recording value falls, according to IPD indices. Capital values declined across the continent's property markets by up to 10 per cent with two exceptions: the UK ...
Analysis: Owning up to key structural flaws.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nat Mankelow Asset managers have a massive mountain to climb if they are to repair the significant loss of confidence from customers who have seen their savings and investments "destroyed" in recent months, one of the industry's most influential figures has said. ...
Analysis: Market Analysis - North America.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Katharina Lichtner The current economic and credit environment is challenging for US private equity. The effects of the government stimulus packages on the financial services sector hasn't yet resulted in a discernable increase in credit availability. The global ...
Analysis: Keva takes an active stance.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Spencer Anderson Keva, the EU20bn Finnish local government pensions institution, has moved an estimated EU1bn of its emerging market equities from passive to active management. While Keva's chief executive Markku Kauppinen would not comment on the ...
Analysis: Market Analysis - South America.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Valentino Gallo The credit crunch and the fall in commodity prices driven by the recession in the western world and the slowdown in China, are taking a toll on Latin American economies. Capital flows to the region waned in recent months, not so much as a result of a ...
Analysis: MTFS could spark a pricing war.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nat Mankelow The alternative exchanges marketplace is on the verge of a price war as many of the trading platforms that have sprung up this year fight for survival. A number of these new trading platforms, called multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), are ...
Analysis: China funds industry.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Henry Smith Now is the perfect time for asset managers looking to gain a foothold in China to buy into or establish a Sino-foreign joint venture (JV) fund management company, according to Shanghai-based investment consultants, Z-Ben Advisors. In a recent ...
Analysis: Market Analysis - Asia Pacific.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Joseph Wat Optimism about a global economic recovery is encouraging investors to look to Asian markets. Signs of stabilisation in economic activity have begun to emerge, with the OECD leading indicators bottoming out. While it is possibly still too early to be confident ...
Analysis: Money market fund misery.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nat Mankelow Institutional investors have had their fill of money market funds, according to data out this month, which reveals another batch of outflows to cap a miserable few months for the asset class. For the week ending June 10, money market funds ...
Analysis: GSAM makes alternative prediction.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Spencer Anderson Irish and UK pensions will allocate more to alternative investments as a result of 2008, according to Goldman Sachs. Paul Craven, managing director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), believes huge losses in equities and an overall ...
Comment: Leader - DB funds go down without much fight.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Henry Smith - Editor Barclays announcement of plans to close its final salary pension scheme to existing members probably paves the way for other big UK companies to follow suit. But while the death of defined benefit (DB) retirement provision is seen as ...
Comment: The Consulting Room - Covering your assets.(Column)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Gordon Fletcher "I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left." These words from Voltaire will ring true with many sponsors of defined benefit schemes. In managing this uncertainty, the ...
Comment: Technology - Progressive relationships.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Nat Mankelow As we enter the summer, it is worth looking at how spring proved kind, not cruel, to what surely must be one of capital market's youngest entrants. Successfully installed in April, a gleaming new electronic trading system now housed at the Iraq ...
Comment: Digital developments - Track our tweets on Twitter.(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Byline: Spencer Anderson In an effort to keep up with the digital movement and get our news, insights and projects out to the public more quickly, FT Mandate can now be followed on Twitter. Our feed is located at www.twitter.com/ftmandate. We will update the page ...
Comment: Soapbox - Regulate with some integrity.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Vincent Neate My personal view of the European Commi-ssion's draft directive on alternative investment fund management (AIFM) is unashamedly negative. I do not believe it will achieve anything and, worse, it could be damaging to the private equity and venture capital ...
Interview: The Chief - A very long engagement.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: Henry Smith The recent shareholder revolt over directors' pay and bonuses at Royal Dutch Shell is further evidence of growing investor interest in corporate governance as the financial crisis bites hard into portfolio returns. But despite signs that investors ...
Features: Choosing the right path.
Jun 01, 2009 ... The sharp rise in equity markets since March has failed to impress sceptical investors who are busy plotting or implementing strategies to recover steep portfolio losses. Many who invested in hedge funds, private equity and property have had their faith in diversification sorely ...