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AK Asset Management's Turkish delight
Now three years old, Akbank subsidiary AK Asset Management was a prime mover in structured products in Turkey and has notched up 24 funds and assets under management of more than 7.2 billion Turkish lira....
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A move to a market-based discount rate allied with an increased post-crisis focus on risk management has led some to claim the German pension sector is moving wholesale to an LDI approach. Theodora Tsentas reports
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Life settlements have been a controversial sector of the insurance-linked securities market for the past decade, but with a series of swap and note-based products now being marketed at pension fund investors, has this asset class come of age? Aaron...
US public pension deficits driving muni yields
It is common knowledge that US public schemes are in a precarious situation, but the scale of their funding deficit is less so because of the favourable accounting rules that allow liabilities to be discounted using the growth of a scheme’s asset portfolio....
Insurers weigh the pros and cons of total return swaps
With many pension funds needing to boost returns to make up poor funding levels while balance sheets remain at a premium, the total return swap market has grown in leaps and bounds. But there are some who see a familiar story of banks pushing products...
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