The largest asset management houses comfortably beat inflation over both one and three years to the end of October 2012. This is according to the...
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- 28 September 2012 Embargoed until midnight SAST 27 September 2012 -
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 28 September 2012 - How much investment in Africa today proactively...
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Managing Potential Conflicts of Interest
Over our twelve-year business history, the foundation of our business has been to drive the improvement of retirement fund...
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In the previous article on hedge funds, we mentioned that the South African hedge fund industry is relatively young compared to the global market. The first South African hedge fund was launched...
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When it comes to optimising pension fund portfolios, the new Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act gives trustees more arrows in their quiver. By allowing pension funds to increase their exposure...
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Before the redraft of Regulation 28, the amount of capital SA pension funds could allocate to private equity was ill-defined. This was largely because regulators didn’t fully acknowledge the...
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Now that Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act allows pension funds to invest 10% of their portfolio in private equity, it is worth considering what this asset class has to offer. Internationally...
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For several months, we have been discussing the changes to Regulation 28 with our clients. A key and important point we take ever y oppor tunity to reiterate, is that the recent amendments place...
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The 'old school' approach to setting a pension fund’s investment strategy has usually been to set a target return and then structure the assets to try to match the actual performance with the...
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You don’t have to spend a great deal of time researching global pension issues to establish that threats like longevity and adverse equity and interest rate environments have contributed to the...