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German consultant Bode looking for partners
GERMANY - Bode Grabner Beye, a German actuarial and benefits consulting firm, is actively seeking an international partner following the recent dissolution of its 22-year-old joint venture with Watson Wyatt.
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Winds of change: institutional funds-of-funds in Germany
DekaBank, the central asset manager of the German Sparkassen Organisation, is Germany’s number one provider of structured investment concepts and fund-based asset management in the retail market. Due to the new possibilities of the Investment Modernisation Act, institutional investors can now profit from our know-how based on breadth of experience ...
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Mercer says Austrian reform disappointing
AUSTRIA - Kurt Bednar, managing director of Mercer Austria, has called for finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser to show more courage in reforming the pension fund law, or PKG.
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Railpen stresses human face of ALM
UK - Stephen Lowe, head of asset strategy at Railpen Investments called for the human component to be considered when pension funds set their asset liability models.
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Bank of New York targets European fund market
EUROPE – One of the Bank of New York’s top executives has said the bank is targeting the European investment funds market, saying there is “tremendous growth opportunity”.
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Mercer advises funds not to follow fashion
UK – Pension funds should not give in to what is ‘in vogue’ but concentrate instead on why they are investing, says a senior investment consultant at Mercer.
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UK funds have
UK - Pension funds in the UK are relying more on consultants but have little or no idea how to measure their advice, a new survey has found.
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FundPartners founder Mansour leaves
NETHERLANDS – Amin Mansour, founder of FundPartners, is leaving to join a private bank.
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Dutch funds
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds are looking to increase their use of unconstrained active investment management, according to a survey by JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management.
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S&P hires FTSE’s Davies for Europe role
EUROPE - Standard & Poor's Index Services says it has hired FTSE Group’s head of relationship management in Europe, John Davies, to the role of director of market development for Europe.
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Jobs safe as State Street exits German KAG biz
GERMANY - State Street Global Advisors is to exit the German KAG investment trust business, citing regulatory changes, to focus on asset management.
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Kodak pension scheme gets property boost
UK – The one-billion-pound (1.46 billion-euro) Kodak Ltd. Pension Plan has seen the real-estate assets in its joint venture with property firm Halladale almost double in a year, according to company documents.
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IPE-QUEST: Danish funds tender at least E140m
DENMARK – Two Danish pension funds have tendered at least 70 million euros each in global equities via IPE-Quest.
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Alitalia cuts pensions amid crisis - union
ITALY - Alitalia, the troubled Italian airline, has almost halved its annual contribution to its staff pension schemes in a bid to “get away from the quicksand”, a union official says.
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Aegon denies Fortis pension outsourcing claim
NETHERLANDS – Aegon Nederland has denied a claim by Fortis Investments that it has opted for the latter’s products as part of a pensions outsourcing move.
