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Pensions Trust hands iBoxx brief to Standard Life
UK - Standard Life Investments says it has been awarded a 75 million-pound (107.4 million-euro) corporate bond brief by the Pensions Trust, benchmarked against the iBoxx index.
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Mercer sees one more mega custody merger
EUROPE – The securities services industry has “significant” scope to concentrate further – with another ‘mega-merger’ possible, a report by Mercer Securities has said.
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Lane Clark names Fernandes’ replacement
UK - Actuarial consulting firm Lane Clark & Peacock has named PricewaterhouseCoopers' David Everett as head of pensions research.
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Pictet senior partner Charles Pictet to leave
SWITZERLAND - Pictet & Cie’s senior partner, Charles Pictet, is leaving the company after 36 years to join the seven-member Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC), the authority that controls the country’s financial sector.
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ABP buys stake in UK real estate firm
UK - ABP, the 150 billion-euro Dutch civil service pension fund, has acquired a minority stake in the UK-based student accommodation company Unite Group.
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IPE-Quest has 13 searches worth E1bn
GLOBAL – Thirteen new searches worth more than a billion euros have gone live on IPE-Quest, IPE’s online mandate matching service, in the last few days.
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Fidelity hires PWC’s Bucksey for UK DC
UK - Fidelity Investments has continued its hiring spree with the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Paul Bucksey as director of business development in its UK defined contribution business.
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PGGM hikes pension premiums
NETHERLANDS – The 57 billion-euro Dutch health care pension fund PGGM has increased its premiums to 15.5% of gross salary for 2005.
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USS, PGGM group outline broker evaluation
EUROPE - A group of buy-side institutions that includes two of Europe's largest pension schemes, USS and PGGM, has outlined the criteria they will use to evaluate the performance of brokers.
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Pension pooling a way to “get rid of trustees”
EUROPE – Pension pooling by multinational companies may be a way for them to “get rid of” uncooperative local trustees, an industry conference has been told.
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Call for “predictable” Swiss pension rate
SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension funds should see their real coverage ratio as 10-15% lower than their technical estimate, a consultant has warned – calling for a “predictable minimum interest rate policy”.
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UK schemes in “long march” into bonds - Barclays
UK – Barclays Capital says possible new rules about pension fund transparency means further pension fund demand for bonds as funds begin “their long march out of equity into fixed income”.
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Finland “clouded” by ageing – report
FINLAND – Finland’s long-term outlook is not only “clouded” by the imminent ageing of the population – but the pension reform set to come in next year is insufficient, says a new report.
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UBS asset management profit slips 20%
GLOBAL – Pre-tax profit at UBS Global Asset Management has slipped almost 20% in the third quarter despite three billion Swiss francs (1.9 billion euros) of new institutional business.
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Fidelity names pan-Europe bond business head
EUROPE - Fidelity Investments has named Achim Gloger as business development director for pan-Europe in its institutional fixed income team to help as clients move into bonds.
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Deutsche asset strategy queried amid AUM slump
GERMANY – Deutsche Bank’s asset management strategy has come under scrutiny in the wake of disclosures that its institutional fund arm DeAM lost 13 billion euros in assets in the third quarter.
