Advisers – Page 61
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Cardiff seeks transition managers
[16:00 CEST 03-08] UK – The £899m (€1.34bn) Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Pension Fund is looking for a ‘panel’ of transition managers, IPE has learnt.
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PwC to advise government on pensions
[14:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The UK government has awarded the contract for the review of civil servants pension delivery.
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Myners to deliver personal accounts
[13:55 CEST 25-07] UK – Paul Myners, author of the Myners Review and chairman of the hedge fund group Ermitage, has been appointed as chair designate of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority.
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Actuarial data creates £20bn mortality rate “margin” - KPMG
[15:30 CEST 24-07] UK – Differing mortality rate assumptions used by pension fund advisers could be contributing a “margin of error” in pension fund liabilities of around £20bn, suggests research.
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Watson Wyatt completes Heissmann acquisition
[13:30 CEST 20-07] GERMANY – Watson Wyatt has completed its acquisition of Heissmann, Germany’s leading pensions actuarial and pensions consulting firm with 360 employees and annual revenues of above €50m.
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Cardano debuts new consultancy model in UK
[17:00 CEST 19-07] UK - Cardano, the Rotterdam-based consultant specialising in derivatives and risk, is now actively competing against mainstream UK firms for investment consulting business.
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Mortality assumptions increase liability by £50m
[14:30 CEST 19-07] UK – Pension schemes’ liabilities could increase by a quarter because of the wide range of mortality assumptions used, a study has found.
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Hampshire stays with Bramdean alternatives
[12:02 CEST 19-07] UK – The £2.5bn (€3.7bn) Hampshire County Council Pension Fund has renewed its contract with UK-based multi-manager Bramdean Asset Management in a push for alternatives, IPE has learnt today.
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Pension fund regs hamper trustee search
[16:00 CEST 17-06] UK - More than a third a UK pension schemes are having trouble recruiting trustees because of increasing regulatory pressures on pension fund trustees, a study has found.
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Docters van Leeuwen descends with 10 commandments
[17:00 CEST 12-07] NETHERLANDS – Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, exiting chairman of the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (AFM), has called for greater fiscal transparency and exemption from dividend tax for pension funds.
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£3bn NI scheme appoints new custodian
[13:09 CEST 12-07] UK – The £3bn (€4.5bn) Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) has appointed HSBC Securities Services as its new custodian.
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Hymans steps up quantitative approach
[16:45 CEST 11-07] UK – The consultant Hymans Robertson will offer its clients a quantitatively-based manager research database to cope with the growing number of asset management products.
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ABN Amro sells custody business
[16:34 CEST 05-07] GLOBAL – Dutch bank ABN Amro has exited the asset servicing business with the sale of its 50% stake in custody joint venture ABN Amro Mellon to the newly merged Bank of New York Mellon.
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Northern Trust under review at Strathclyde
[17:07 CEST 03-07] UK - The £9.6bn (€14.1bn) Strathclyde pension fund is looking for a custodian.
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BonyM merger completed
GLOBAL – The Bank of New York and Mellon have announced the finalisation of their merger that creates the largest custodian with over $18trn (€13.3trn) in assets under custody and administration.
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Feri sells Fund Market Information
[17:00 CEST 28-06] UK/GERMANY – Fund research specialist Feri Fund Market Information (Feri FMI) is to become part of Lipper, Reuters' specialist fund subsidiary.
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Norwegian giant tenders tax advice
NORWAY – Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is seeking a tax adviser on investments of the NOK1.88trn (€236.3bn) Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global.
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Heubeck forms pensions venture with Sparkassen
[17:10 CEST 21-06] GERMANY – Heubeck AG, Germany’s best-known actuary, has formed a joint venture with state-owned savings banks (Sparkassen) to provide corporate clients of the banks with actuarial and pension administration services.
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Bosch chooses actuary
[16:56 CEST 15-06] GERMANY – White goods producer Bosch has chosen BodeHewitt as its pensions actuary for the company from 2008.
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Features
Multi boutiques make their mark
Sophia Grene examines how some asset managers have developed a multi-specialist model
