All articles by Carolyn Bandel – Page 47
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Italy’s second pillar flourishes under TFR
[15:45 CEST 24-09] ITALY – Subscriptions to the Italian second pillar doubled to 2.7 million accounts in the first half of this year, the Italian pension fund regulator, Covip has announced.
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Edhec sets up pension fund research chair
[13:00 CEST 24-09] FRANCE – The Nice-based business school Edhec and Axa Investment Managers have created a research chair on regulation and institutional investments.
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IPE-QUEST: Danske seeks biotech manager
[12:45 CEST 24-09] DENMARK – The Danish asset manager Dankse Capital is searching for an active equity manager on two long-only global mandates run against Nasdaq Biotech and MSCI Healthcare indices respectively.
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ABP to implement new internal risk model
[15:00 CEST 21-09] NETHERLANDS – ABP, the largest Dutch pension fund, is set to be the first to implement a new internal risk model for the solvency test as part of the new FTK assessment framework.
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Securities trading platform move postponed
[14:00 CEST 21-09] BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS – Plans to implement an interim step towards a single European transaction processing platform, known as Euroclear Settlement of Euronext-zone securities (ESES) on the Dutch and Belgian market, has been postponed.
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Buyout still too costly to take off – Aon
[16:45 CEST 20-09] UK – Too few pension schemes see buyout as realistic and affordable for the buyout market to reach the widely-predicted boom, suggests consultancy firm Aon.
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IPE-QUEST: Belgian currency overlay mandate
[15:15 CEST 20-09] BELGIUM – A Belgian institutional investor is looking for investment managers to handle a $100m (€71.2m) global emerging markets currency overlay mandate, using IPE-Quest.
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AP7 reviews quant index fund and manager
[16:45 CEST 19-09] SWEDEN – In a push for diversification, the Swedish AP7 buffer fund has rearranged its quantitative index fund, while reviewing the position of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) as its investment manager.
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Wednesday people update
[16:45 CEST 19-09] GLOBAL – Syz, PIMCO, F&C, CBRE, BVI, NTGI, JPMAM, BDO Stoy Hayward, AXA IM, T. Rowe Price, LCP, Esofac
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UK schemes unfazed by Northern Rock debacle
[16:45 CEST 18-09] UK – UK pension funds remain confident about their funding positions, despite a reported hit for fund manager Baillie Gifford in its shareholding of UK bank Northern Rock.
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Lothian fund to discuss arms divestment
[14:00 CEST 18-09] UK – The Lothian pension fund, the retirement scheme for the city of Edinburgh, will discuss possible divestments from arms companies following a motion put forward by one of its councillors.
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Scales heads Enhanced Analytics
[15:15 CEST 17-09] UK – Former LPFA chief Peter Scales has been appointed as chief executive of Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), which seeks to encourage investment research to look at 'extra-financial' issues.
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Borgdorff to leave VB (Updated)
[11:47 CEST 17-09] NETHERLANDS – Peter Borgdorff has announced he will step down as director of the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds (VB) to join major Dutch pension fund PGGM.
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KAS Bank steps closer to European expansion
[11:30 CEST 17-09] NETHERLANDS – KAS Bank, the Dutch securities services bank, has said it is now in talks with European institutions over possible joint ventures.
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EIRiS sees pension funds’ ESG interest grow
[15:00 CEST 14-09] EUROPE – UK think-tank Ethical Investment Research Services (EIRiS) is in talks with several UK local authority pension funds and Benelux schemes.
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PGGM takes on Citi's emerging market credit risk
[13:30 CEST 14-09] NETHERLANDS/UK – Major Dutch pension fund PGGM said today it has agreed to take on part of the risk of financial group Citi’s portfolio of emerging market credit exposures.
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PPF says it aims to reduce levy
[13:00 CEST 13-09] UK – The UK Pension Protection Fund (PPF) aims to reduce its levy within the next five to 10 years, according to the fund’s director of corporate affairs Paul Reynolds.
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R&SA plans pensions fusion
[13:00 CEST 13/09] UK – Major British insurer Royal & SunAlliance (R&SA) plans to place its three UK pension schemes under one umbrella provision, IPE has learnt.
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TPR cautions on pension buyouts
[16:00 CEST 12-09] UK - The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned although pension buyouts are an acceptable way for companies to transfer pension liabilities, employers should not consider it a way to abandon their schemes.
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Wednesday people roundup
[12:00 CEST 12-09] GLOBAL – People roundup: Pimco, Robeco, Barnett Waddingham, NTGI, Morley, Standard Life, CSAM, KPMG, Mercer, Watson Wyatt, Hewitt, Investec, OMEGA, ProTRUST, PPF, AP1.
