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Conservative investments, strong local markets help Brazilian funds boom
Global Pensions | 08 Mar 2010
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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Russia’s pension reform a work in progress
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Poland’s government under criticism over pension reform plans
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Bucking the trend
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Pension funds riding the equity surge
Pension funds are casting a wider net in search of equity returns, as Alison Swersky reports
BlackRock’s planned transition
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Career average for Ireland’s new recruits
Following the budget at the end of 2009, the public sector has seen a series of changes, including the introduction of a career average scheme. Helen Morrissey reports
A more dynamic reserve fund
Helen Morrissey talks to Eugene O’Callaghan and Adrian O’Donovan of the National Pension Reserve Fund about their objectives for the fund as well as their role in recapitalising Irish banks during the financial crisis
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