All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 99
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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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Dorset joins currency trend
[13:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The £1.4bn (€95m) Dorset County Council Pension Fund is looking for an active currency manager.
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Romania introduces pension fund risk profile
ROMANIA – Pension funds in the recently-created Romanian second pillar will be labelled "high risk level" if they have less than 65% invested in low-risk bonds.
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Estonia needs to change pension indexation - IMF
ESTONIA – Current legal practices regarding the indexation of pension benefits is the major factor behind the destabilization of Estonian finances, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found.
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Data important in risk-based supervision - IOPS
[13:00 CEST 31-07] GLOBAL – One of the biggest challenges in moving to a risk-based supervision of pension funds is data collection, the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) has found.
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TSC cautions over private equity in market downturn
[16:30 CEST 30-07] UK – The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) is calling on the Bank of England to look at the impact of economic downturns on the increasing number of leveraged buyouts.
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Waltham Forest completes overhaul
[15:00 CEST 30-07] UK – The £485m (€719.6m) London Borough of Waltham Forest pension fund has appointed six new managers.
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FRR awards three more passive mandates
[14:30 CEST 30-07] FRANCE – The €33.4bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) appointed the final three managers to its newly-created passive portfolio.
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Hungary to cut pension benefits
[15:00 CEST 27-07] HUNGARY – IMF staff have welcome steps taken by the Hungarian government to tighten access to disability pension and the early retirement programme.
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Irish SRI funds have "solid performance" – Mercer
[14:30 CEST 27-07] IRELAND – Ethically-managed funds returned 3% for the first half of 2007 compared to 5.6% for equity-only funds.
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Italian coalition too weak for pension reform – S&P
[16:30 CEST 26-07] ITALY – Recent pension reforms agreed in Italy have failed to render the country's fiscal outlook more sustainable, Standard & Poor has found.
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Hermes CEO leaves for Nuveen
[15:39 CEST 26-07] UK – Mark Anson is to step down as chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management at the end of August after just 18 months at the investment manager.
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EP wants pan-European pensions product
[17:00 CEST 13-07] EUROPE – The European Parliament has called on the European Commission to encourage the financial industry to create a portable pension product.
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Wiltshire appoints three managers
[17:00 CEST 13-07] UK – The £1.1bn (€1.7bn) Wiltshire County Council Pension Fund has awarded three mandates for unconstrained equity, long-short equity and active currency.
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IPE-QUEST: $50m currency alpha mandate
[17:00 CEST 13-07] UK – A UK-based institutional investor is looking for a manager for a $50m (€36.3m) active global currency alpha mandate using IPE-Quest.
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Pension fund replaces brown envelope
[11:00 CEST 13-07] EUROPE – New forms of bribe have emerged which now include payments into a pension fund, participants at an anti-corruption seminar learned this week.
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Hermes chooses tracking partner
[17:00 CEST 12-07] UK – Legal & General Investment Management will provide index tracking services to Hermes Pension Management, it was announced today.
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Pensions Board urges trustees to focus on risk
[17:00 CEST 12-07] IRELAND – Trustees should be constantly reviewing the asset allocation in their pension funds' investment portfolios to mitigate risk, the Irish Pensions Board has suggested.
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IPE-QUEST: $30m heading for SRI
[17:00 CEST 12-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund is seeking to appoint a manager for a $30m SRI (€21.8m) mandate, using IPE-Quest.
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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.
