All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 91
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Germans up support for compulsory second pillar
[15:30 CEST 25-10] GERMANY – Making occupational pension provision compulsory would help ease fears over poverty at retirement, an increasing number of Germans agree.
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AP3 signs enhanced managers
[15:00 CEST 25-10] SWEDEN – The SEK227.7bn (€25bn) third Swedish buffer fund AP3 has selected 13 managers for enhanced indexing briefs.
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Academics find ESG helps performance
[12:30 CEST 25-10] GLOBAL – Applying environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) to your portfolio has a positive impact on performance, the United Nations and Mercer has found.
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PPF seeks help to clean up scheme data
[12:00 CEST 25-10] UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is tendering for services to review data of incoming pension schemes.
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Returns reveal right move for FRR
[16:00 CEST 24-10] FRANCE – The €33.8bn French reserve fund FRR said reduced exposure to equities and no holdings in instruments directly affected by the credit crunch had helped bring its performance for the last nine months to 5.7%.
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Collectum computer crash forces ITP extension
[14:00 CEST 24-10] SWEDEN – Collectum, the online services responsible for pooling money within Sweden’s white-collar pension scheme ITP, has extended the period within which people decide where to invest their money because of technical difficulties.
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PwC to advise Norwegian fund on real estate
[13:30 CEST 24-10] NORWAY – The Oslo-based branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was awarded the contract for advising the NOK2trn (€250bn) Norwegian government pension fund on tax issues related to real estate investments.
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UBS expands in France
[13:00 CEST 24-10] GERMANY/SWITZERLAND – Swiss bank UBS is set to buy German Commerzbank's French asset management arm Caisse Centrale de Réescompte (CCR) for €435m.
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EFRP appoints new chair and directors
[16:25 CEST 23-10] EUROPE – Angel Martinez-Aldama, director general of Spanish fund association Inverco, has succeeded Jaap Maassen, director of pensions at Dutch ABP, as chairman for the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP).
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Pension experts disagree over deferred benefits
[16:00 CEST 23-10] UK – The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has backed a proposal by the government to half the cap on indexation of deferred retirement benefits, but consultancy experts have criticised such reforms.
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AP1 reviews Pacific mandates
[14:00 CEST 23-10] SWEDEN – The SEK221bn (€24bn) buffer fund AP1 is tendering a $680m (€478m) Pacific ex-Japan equities mandate.
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T-Charter chair defends principles
[13:30 CEST 23-10] GLOBAL – Including stronger principles on best practice for transition managers in the so-called 'T-Charter' could have amounted to restriction of trade, Rick Di Mascio, chief executive of Inalytics, explained.
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DWP starts own IORP review
[16:40 CEST 22-10] UK – The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a consultation paper to find out how successful occupational pension schemes have been in implementing the European pension fund directive IORP.
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New hedge fund performance labels suggested
[16:30 CEST 22-10] GLOBAL – The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) has suggested hedge funds should be differentiated by 'cluster analysis' instead of categorising them by investment style.
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Norwegian fund rated second best
[15:15 CEST 22-10] GLOBAL – The NOK2trn (€250bn) Norwegian government pension fund is ranked second in research looking specifically at the structure, governance, transparency, accountability and behaviour of 32 sovereign wealth funds (SWF).
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T-Charter labelled as 'too weak'
[15:00 CEST 22-10] GLOBAL – Standards set by the newly-launched charter for best practice in transition management should be raised, State Street, Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and Russell Investments have demanded.
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Not all wealth fund investment welcome - Barroso
[16:00 CEST 19-10] EUROPE – EU member states should take a common approach to protect the union from investments out of line with standards set by the European Union, said José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.
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Swiss get incentives to work longer
[13:00 CEST 19-10] SWITZERLAND – Employees who work beyond the statutory retirement age can continue to pay into their third pillar pension provision for five years, the government has decreed.
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ÖPAG reveals cross-border destinations
[13:00 CEST 19-10] AUSTRIA – The €1.9bn multi-employer Pensionskasse ÖPAG is in negotiations with Germany and Slovenia to set up second-pillar pension operations.
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Ethical adviser GES gives Burma warning
[13:00 CEST 19-10] NORDICS – GES Investment Services has announced it will increase its engagement with investors in companies in Burma to prevent them becoming complicit with violations of human rights.
