Advisers – Page 53
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FeaturesGrowing in importance
Previously epitomising debt, default and hyperinflation, emerging markets now contribute more than the US to world growth. Joseph Mariathasan investigates if they are suitably decoupled from the credit crunch to be a safe haven or is it just a commodity-led boom?
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Flynn to share BoI pensions experience
[15:00 CEST 30-07] IRELAND – Frank Flynn, former head of group pensions at the Bank of Ireland, has opened a pension consultancy business to share his expertise with businesses and pension funds reviewing their pensions strategies and governance.
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£1.2bn Trafalgar House fund replaces Hewitt (amended)
[15:00 CEST 30-07] UK - The £1.2bn (€1.5bn) pension fund of the former UK property conglomerate Trafalgar House has appointed Dutch consultant Cardano as its new investment adviser, replacing Hewitt.
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Alexander Forbes offers TrustEase relief
[16:50 CEST 28-07] UK – Alexander Forbes Trustee Services has today launched a service that it claims frees insolvency practitioners (IPs) from the liability of being a trustee of an insolvent company’s defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.
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PPF seeks actuarial software provider
[14:45 CEST 25-07] UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is seeking a software provider for services enabling the organisation's actuarial team to complete its job.
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Two-thirds outsource admin despite TPR fears
[16:30 CEST 24-07] UK – Over two-thirds of employers with defined benefit (DB) schemes have outsourced their pensions administration to third-party providers, according to Aon Consulting, even as the UK regulator raised concerns about the level of skill among administrators.
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BVI sees trend towards specialisation
[16:45 CEST 23-07] GERMANY – Investors are once again choosing separate providers for portfolio management and fund administration, according to the German investment and asset management federation BVI.
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NewsFalkirk targets passive manager for 'flexibility'
[15:27 CEST 16-07] UK – Falkirk Council Pension Fund is searching for a passive manager to run an equity portfolio worth up to £325m (€410m).
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NewsHaringey splits investment and actuarial advice
[15:46 CEST 11-07] UK – The London Borough of Haringey has split the investment and actuarial services for its £605.2m (€757m) pension fund between Hewitt Associates and Hymans Robertson.
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Kingston adds custodian to search list
[13:20 CEST 10-07] UK – The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is seeking a global custodian to provide services to its local government pension scheme.
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Watson Wyatt unites global quant offerings
[11:30 CEST 02-07] UK – Consultancy firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide is creating a quantitative research and investment systems group in an attempt to combine its various quant offerings into one team.
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Tesco appoints Hewitt as investment adviser
[12:30 CEST 01-07] UK – Tesco Pension scheme has appointed Hewitt Associates to replace Watson Wyatt as its investment adviser.
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Norwegian local authority to build new scheme
[15:00 CEST 26-06] NORWAY – The Norwegian municipality of Ski has issued a tender for the provision of services to set up a new occupational pension scheme.
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Southampton Uni appoints Barnett Waddingham
[16:30 CEST 25-06] UK – The University of Southampton has appointed Barnett Waddingham to provide consultancy services for its pension fund for non-academic staff.
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NewsCardiff seeks actuarial services
[16:45 CEST 23-06] UK – Cardiff County Council has issued a tender for a new provider of actuarial services for the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan local authority pension scheme.
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Aon revamps admin on expected employer calls
[15:45 CEST 20-06] UK - Aon Consulting is attempting to tap into what it believes will be a growing call for outsourced administration when pension reform come into force in 2012, by expanding and relaunching its admin team.
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PADA to start administration search in 2009
[13:30 CEST 19-06] UK – The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) has revealed it intends to issue a tender for scheme administration services for the new system of personal accounts in January 2009 with the contract expected to be awarded by the summer of 2010.
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Parmalat investors launch new European legal action
[16:15 CEST 17-06] EUROPE – Institutional investors are backing a group of 4,000 Parmalat investors who lost money in the Italian dairy firm’s collapse by launching legal action against certain banks and international auditors in the case.
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Hewitt loses Manweb to Mercer
[13:30 CEST 11-06] UK – Trustees of the £800m (€1bn) Manweb Group part of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS), has appointed Mercer to provide investment consulting services to its defined benefit (DB) scheme.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The LDI analogy of pensions and airlines
[13:00 CEST 11-06] EUROPE - The move to liability-driven investment strategies has been a hot topic over the last two years. But discussion with consultants has revealed pension funds are still not adopting the strategy’s full process, even though the break-even rate on 40-year inflation has now hit a new ...
