Advisers – Page 50
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E-based personal accounts need member education
[17:00 CET 09-03] UK – The pensions and investment industry has warned a 'self-service' e-approach to personal account members investment decisions risks "underestimating" the challenges involved in educating consumers.
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Westminster re-tenders advice contracts
[16:55 CET 09-03] UK – The City of Westminster Council has initiated a search for providers of investment and actuarial advice to its local government pension scheme (LGPS).
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NewsPension fund advice leads to take-up of AVCs
[16:00 CET 05-03] UK – The West Midlands Pension Fund is running an initiative giving its over 50s members free financial advice and which has in turn led some members receive an extra 20% tax free on some of their pension savings.
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Credit crisis puts DC back in the spotlight
[15:50 CET 24-02] UK – Employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) pension schemes may have to step up their game as the financial crisis has thrust governance issues into the spotlight, according to research published by Watson Wyatt.
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NewsNAPF updates corporate governance guidelines
[16:06 CET 18-02] UK - The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has updated its Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines urging investors to adopt a "stronger stance" on companies' application of the Combined Code.
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Mercer buys Callan to create consulting giant
[16:55 CET 17-02] UNITED STATES – Callan Associates, the San Francisco-headquartered consultant to major investors such as US pension funds, is being bought by rival firm Mercer to create one of the largest investment consulting businesses in the US.
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DB sponsors fear scheme impact
[16:55 CET 09-02] UK – Research suggests nine out of 10 companies with a defined benefit (DB) pension fund are worried about the impact their scheme will have on the business.
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Hammersmith & Fulham seeks investment advice
[15:45 CET 09-02] UK – The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has formally initiated a search for an investment consultant for its £430m (€490m) local authority pension fund.
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Nuclear authority tenders for advice
[16:30 CET 06-02] UK – The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is seeking an actuarial and investment consultant and a legal adviser to provide services in relation to all the pension arrangements which comes under its remit.
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Merseyside tenders for transition manager panel
[16:05 CET 30-01] UK – Merseyside Pension Fund has issued a tender to establish a framework list of transition managers who would aid the movement of assets between investment managers following strategy changes.
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CEM and VB to map out pension operating costs
[16:30 CET 23-01] NETHERLANDS – The Canadian CEM Benchmarking, set up by Keith Ambachtsheer, has announced it will cooperate with the Dutch association of industry-wide pension funds (VB) on new comparative research into the operating costs of pension funds.
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SPK awards IT contracts for pension reform
[15:15 CET 20-01] NORWAY – Statens Pensjonskasse (SPK), the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund, has appointed Accenture and Steria to develop a new system for the pension fund portfolio as part of the pension reform project.
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PADA targets admin in first tender
[15:45 CET 15-01] UK – The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) has launched its procurement process for services, to establish the new system of personal accounts, with a search for a scheme administrator.
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Asda taps Cardano for 'new-style' mandate
[17:05 CET 14-01] UK – The £1bn (€1.1bn) group pension scheme of UK supermarket retailer Asda, has appointed Cardano’s London office for a so called 'solvency management' mandate.
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POB to consult on quality rules for pension actuaries
[16:40 CET 14-01] UK – The Professional Oversight Board (POB), an operating body of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), is to consult on possible improvements to the professional quality assurance requirements for actuaries, following a review of the monitoring and scrutiny of actuarial work.
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Xafinity to take on Hackney admin
[16:35 CET 14-01] UK – The London Borough of Hackney Council has appointed Xafinity Paymaster to manage its pension administration and pension payroll services.
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NewsSecs lending 'oils the machine' – Kas Bank
[14:30 CET 12-01] NETHERLANDS – Albert Röell, chairman of Dutch securities bank Kas Bank’ managing board, has warned securities lending is “the oil for the financial machine”.
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NewsHymans replaces P-Solve at Kensington
[15:45 CET 09-01] UK – Hymans Robertson has replaced P-Solve Asset Management as investment consultants for the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's pension fund.
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NewsAon fined €5.8m by UK over bribery controls
[16:30 CET 08] UK – Aon Corp., the parent of actuarial and pension consulting firm Aon Consulting, has been fined £5.2m (€5.8m) by the UK’s financial regulator for “failings in its anti-bribery and corruption systems and controls”.
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NewsABP taps ex-NBIM chief Kjaer for advice
[14:55 CET 08-01] NETHERLANDS – Knut Kjaer, the former chief executive of Norges Bank Investment Management (NIBM), the asset manager of the Norwegian oil fund, has joined the investment committee of the giant Dutch civil service pension fund ABP.
