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Chile’s SWFs up 6.9%

Global Pensions | 11 Mar 2010 | 14:54

CHILE – Chile’s Pension Reserve Fund (PRF) and the Economic and Social Stabilization Fund (ESSF) have returned on average 6.9% since their creation in 2006 to December 2009, ministry of finance Andrés Velasco revealed.

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Argentina brings home $200m of frozen pension assets

ARGENTINA/US – Argentina has repatriated US$200m of public pension assets frozen in the US by a court order.

Global Pensions | 05 Mar 2010

Pension assets worldwide up 14% in 2009

GLOBAL – Global pension assets totalled US$29.5trn at year end 2009, up 14% from the previous year, according to a report by the International Financial Services London.

Global Pensions | 22 Feb 2010

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Conservative investments, strong local markets help Brazilian funds boom

A conservative investment approach meant Brazilian pensions suffered only minor scrapes during the crisis, but too-strong funding levels bring problems of their own, as Dorothee Gnaedinger reports

Room for growth

Rodrigo Amaral speaks to Wagner Pinheiro, president of Petros, Brazil’s second largest complementary pension fund, about positioning his portfolio to tap the booming equity market and to take advantage of more flexible regulations

The high-flying BRIC

Brazil’s conservative economic policy has helped the country shed its image as one for the faint-hearted investor to ignore, as Rodrigo Amaral reports

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Video: interview with Jonathan Boersma, CFA Institute

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Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Jonathan Boersma, executive director, Global Investment Performance Standards, at the CFA Institute.

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Are claims that the European Commission's alternative investment fund manager directive will cause an exodus of alternative managers from Europe overblown?

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