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Buck to replace investment consulting head
UK - Buck Consultants is set to name a new head of investment consulting following the departure of incumbent Paul Black to Lane Clark & Peacock.
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Germany’s Pensor bought by insurer Volksfürsorge
GERMANY - German insurer Volksfürsorge has acquired Pensor Pensionsfonds, one of the new equity-oriented pension vehicles, from Pensor shareholders Commerzbank and Höfer Vorsorgemanagement, a German pensions consultant.
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Dutch schemes’ Harcourt in Swedish hedge move
SWEDEN - Harcourt Investment Consulting, the Swiss hedge funds business that is ultimately majority owned by ABP and PGGM through NIB Capital, has launched a Swedish hedge fund index.
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Analysts welcome Deutsche Asset Management exit
UK - Deutsche Bank watchers have welcomed this morning’s announcement that virtually all of Deutsche Asset Management in the UK will be sold to rival Aberdeen, noting that the move gives Deutsche an elegant exit from the business.
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Dutch schemes’ NIB ‘close to take-over decision’
NETHERLANDS – NIB Capital, the merchant bank owned by the two largest Dutch pension funds, has received a bid from a former board member of Goldman Sachs, according to press reports.
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Capacity an issue for ‘unconstrained’ mandates
EUROPE – Hewitt Associates, an advocate of so-called ‘unconstrained’ mandates, has acknowledged difficulties n finding managers to run assets that are not benchmarked to an index.
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Hewitt says 39 clients go ‘unconstrained’
UK – Hewitt Associates says 39 of its UK pension fund clients have gone to so-called unconstrained mandates, up from 20 six months ago.
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Cominvest affilate Ebase sees pensions boost
GERMANY - Ebase, a fund service platform tied to German asset manager Cominvest, says the expected boom in occupational pensions will mean assets under administration from that sector will almost double by the end of 2008.
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Dutch schemes’ boards ‘need more control’
NETHERLANDS - The boards of pension schemes still aren’t sufficiently aware that they need to be in control and that just implementing internal management is not enough, claim two Dutch experts on corporate governance.
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Coal scheme’s Morgan joins research firm
UK – David Morgan, chief executive of Coal Pension Trustee Services, has been appointed as non-executive chairman of new pension fund monitoring firm Blacket Research.
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Totting up the fees
Is a multi-manager arrangement good value when compared with more traditional forms of institutional management?
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Pragma assesses new EU members
The 10 new EU member states ought to encourage defined benefit-type pension schemes and introduce three-pillar systems, according to a report from Brussels-based consultant Pragma. Nine international institutions, including the two largest Dutch pension schemes ABP and PGGM, sponsored the EU-wide study. It aimed to give the new members’ reserves ...
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Dutch may issue index-linked to aid schemes
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch Treasury is looking at the possibility of issuing index-linked bonds to help with the financing of pension funds, says finance minister Gerrit Zalm.
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Report warns pension funds about climate risk
GLOBAL – A new report has warned pension fund trustees that they need to consider climate change if they want to do the best for their beneficiaries.
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Top execs quit former Heubeck parent FJH
GERMANY - FJH, the embattled insurance software company that formerly owned German pensions adviser Heubeck AG, has announced the resignation of its chief financial officer as part of a shake-up of its management board.
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Putnam institutional chief Boneparth retires
GLOBAL – John Boneparth, head of global institutional management at Putnam Investments, is to retire in September.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders Japanese small-caps
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch consultant has tendered up to two Japanese small cap equities mandates on behalf of a Dutch pension fund via IPE-Quest.
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Cerulli sees multi-manager demand in Germany
GERMANY - Investor demand for multi-manager funds in Germany increased more than three-fold in 2004, taking total volume for the funds to €414m, a new study by Cerulli Associates shows.
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€1.3bn UK plumbing scheme fires Mercer
UK – Consulting firm Mercer has lost the investment consulting and scheme actuary roles at the £900m (€1.3bn) scheme for the plumbing industry.
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Watson’s Urwin doubts hedge fund capacity
GLOBAL – Roger Urwin, global head of investment consulting at Watson Wyatt, says the performance of fund of hedge funds is “in doubt” due to a lack of capacity at some of the managers.
