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Perry goes to ITS, Lancaster to MPC and Elliott to Aon
UK – The former pensions head at the House of Commons, Carol Perry has been appointed as one of six directors at Independent Trustee Services.
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Wiltshire tenders €1.4bn custody brief
UK – The roughly £1bn (€1.4bn) Wiltshire County Council pension fund is tendering for a new global custodian.
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Pension funds could buy 20% government stake in Schiphol
NETHERLANDS – Government is planning to sell close to a third of its stake in Schiphol airport to institutional investors, according to Dutch finance minister Gerrit Zalm.
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Shareholders to vote on corporate governance - Eumedion
NETHERLANDS - The shareholders of a listed company should have a vote on its corporate governance policy, in order to achieve an adequate motivation in case of a deviation of the Tabaksblat Code, said Eumedion, the platform for corporate governance.
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GE Asset Management CEO exits
UK – Gavin Hill, chief executive of GE Asset Management, has quit to join the board of directors as investment director at pensions liability buyout vehicle Synesis Life under CEO Isabel Hudson.
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ABP takes 100% stake in Loyalis as levensloop comes under fire
NETHERLANDS - Civil service pension fund ABP has increased its stake in its subsidiary company Loyalis from 20% to 100%, it has announced.
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Mercer partner Cowling quits to join JLT arm
UK – Charles Cowling, long-term worldwide partner at Mercer Human Resources Consulting, has quit to join pensions advisory outfit Pension Capital Strategies (PCS) as managing director.
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New models but same game
A lot is expected of pension trustees these days – more than is reasonable for them to cope with on their own or relying on just their current advice, some would say. However, they are being offered affordable extra help, including for the provision of investment banking-style services that they ...
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F&C Netherlands makes hires
EUROPE – Liesbeth Rutgers, fixed income chief at private banking outfit Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers, has been appointed institutional business co-director at F&C Netherlands.
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Netherlands to force funds to disclose voting
NETHERLANDS - Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm wants to force pension funds, insurers and banks to disclose the way they vote at company annual general meetings.
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Watson Wyatt hires Aon’s Hoile
UK - David Hoile, head of Aon Consulting’s UK investment research division, has quit to join Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting’s asset research team.
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Dutch schemes face sanctions from AFM regulator
NETHERLANDS – The Autoriteit Financiële Markten financial market watchdog says dozens of Dutch pension funds still don’t fully comply with its market conduct rules.
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Avon tenders for pensions consultant
UK – The roughly £1.9bn (€2.7bn) Avon pension fund administered by the Bath and North East Somerset Council is tendering for a pensions consultant.
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IPE-QUEST: German pension fund tenders equities
GERMANY – Swiss investment consultant Kottmann Advisory has tendered €100m in small and mid-cap European equities on behalf of a German pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders fiduciary
NETHERLANDS – Consulting firm Avida International is looking for fiduciary managers for a multibillion-euro Dutch pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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Law firm Freshfields rejigs pensions leadership
GLOBAL - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named Hamburg partner Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt as the sole head of its global pensions practice.
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PPM tenders fund rating services
SWEDEN - Sweden’s Premium Pension Authority, PPM, says it intends to purchase fund rating services.
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Lane Clark parent gets private equity approach
UK – Alexander Forbes, the South African-based parent company of UK actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock, is in talks with private equity investors about a sale of the entire group.
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CBRE in deal with Oxford Property Consultants
REAL ESTATE – UK real estate research and investment firm Oxford Property Consultants has inked a deal with CB Richard Ellis.
