Advisers – Page 51
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NewsFujitsu taps SLI for UK equities
[16:00 CET 07-01] UK – The £1.9bn (€2.1bn) UK defined benefit (DB) pension fund of Japanese computer manufacturer Fujitsu has appointed asset manager Standard Life Investments for a £90m UK equity portfolio.
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Ballendux goes it alone
[16:55 CET 16-12] NETHERLANDS – Frans Ballendux, the former business leader of Mercer Investment Consulting in the Netherlands, has said he will depart from Mercer to start his own investment consultancy business.
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'Go with the bond curve', say Dutch actuaries
[17:15 CET 12-12] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch Actuarial Association has advised pension funds they can now invoke an exemption rule of Dutch pensions law which allows them to use the bond curve rather than the swap curve to calculate the value of their liabilities.
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ABP and VBL work together on border scheme
[15:50 CET 12-12] GERMANY/ NETHERLANDS – ABP, the €193bn Dutch pension fund for civil servants, and VBL, the €13bn German public sector supplementary insurer, are working together to create a new scheme for a Dutch-German border hospital.
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Mercer to help drive Nissan’s pensions strategy
[17:00 CET 10-12] GLOBAL - Mercer, the consultancy firm, has been appointed by car manufacturer Nissan Motors to be its global retirement consultant.
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New evidence of bad advice on pension transfers
[13:00 CET 08-12] UK – The Financial Services Authority has uncovered fresh evidence of pension transfer mis-selling which indicates some occupational pension members may have been wrongly advised to shift out of schemes in the wake of A-Day.
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NewsBaerum appoints consultant for new scheme
[15:50 CET 05-12] NORWAY – The Norwegian municipality of Baerum has appointed Pensjon & Finans AS to help establish a new pension fund.
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Roche departure strengthens Aon's Swiss team
[16:30 CET 01-12] SWITZERLAND – Matthias Pfiffner, international benefits manager at Roche, has left the pharmaceutical giant to join the pensions team at Aon Consulting Switzerland.
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LDI pioneer taps TKP for pension administration
[17:05 CET 28-11] NETHERLANDS – The €430m pension fund of food retailer Super de Boer (SDB) has appointed Aegon subsidiary TKP Pensioen for its pension administration and communication.
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Watson Wyatt recommends funds stop lending
[16:20 CET 27-11] UK – The Lehman Brothers' collapse and the subsequent turbulence has shown the risk/reward trade-off around securities lending may no longer be worthwhile for pension funds, Watson Wyatt has warned.
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NewsCall for pension sea change
[11:30 CET 21-11] EUROPE - Pension funds, asset managers and consultants need to completely change the way they are working together to ensure the future of pension provision but not through new outside regulation, Amin Rajan, CEO of Create-Research, told delegates at the IPE seminar in Barcelona yesterday.
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Waltham Forest seeks permanent investment adviser
[16:55 CET 18-11] UK – The London Borough of Waltham Forest is seeking an investment adviser to help develop a strategy for its £444.1m (€528.2m) pension fund.
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Hewitt foresees "difficult environment" in 2009
[15:00 CET 14-11] GLOBAL - Pension consulting firm Hewitt Associates says it foresees a "difficult environment" in the next fiscal year, despite swinging to a profit in the fourth-quarter from a loss a year before.
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Rethink at HSBC’s pension consulting arm
[17:05 CET 07-11] UK – HSBC Actuaries and Consultants (HACL), the pension consulting arm of bank giant HSBC, has appointed defined benefit head Steven Robinson to a new strategic role in a bid to update its DB and trustee market offerings
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PPF seeks trustee managers for FAS role
[15:15 CET 05-11] UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is seeking trustee relationship managers to assist the trustees of schemes entering the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS).
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Westminster seeks admin and accounting provider
[15:00 CET 04-11] UK – Westminster City Council is seeking providers to take on the administration and accounting services for its £642m (€797m) local government pension scheme.
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Avon targets full investment advice
[16:50 CET 03-11] UK – Bath and North East Somerset Council is seeking an investment consultant to provide services to the £2.14bn (€2.7bn) Avon pension fund.
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A gradual transformation
The arena for consultants looks much the same from one year to the next but it is changing, George Coats finds
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UK fiduciary growth to hit £300bn
[14:45 CET 29-10] UK – Asset managers are predicting the recent turbulence in the financial markets could spark a growth of fiduciary management worth £300bn in UK pension fund assets by 2012.
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Essex tenders 10% to global equity
[16:45 CET 28-10] UK – Essex County Council is searching for an asset manager to look after up to £300m (€375m) of its £3.1bn in pension fund assets via a global equity mandate.
