All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 12
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EDS names new treasurer to oversee pensions
GLOBAL – Computer firm Electronic Data Systems has named Anthony Glasby as its new corporate treasurer, a role which is responsible for pensions management worldwide.
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Pension funds in bid for Lane Clark parent
GLOBAL – An investor group including pension funds has made a ZAR8.3bn (€875m) bid for Alexander Forbes, the parent company of pensions consulting firm Lane Clark & Peacock.
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MEPs, industry gather to discuss portability
EUROPE - The European Commission's proposed directive on pensions portability is to be discussed by the European Parliamentary Pensions Forum at a meeting in Brussels tomorrow.
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Dutch painters award €450m to Theodoor Glissen
NETHERLANDS – A&O Services, which runs the €3.2bn Dutch painters pension fund BPF Schilders, has awarded a €450m pan-European equity index mandate to private bank Theodoor Glissen.
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UK sets €1bn pension protection levy ceiling
UK – The UK government has set the Pension Protection Fund levy ceiling at £718.75bn (€1.07bn) for next year.
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Pension bond switch “fundamentally flawed” – KPMG
UK – The idea that UK defined benefit pension funds will be able to switch out of equities and into long-dated fixed income to cut risk is fundamentally flawed, according to KPMG.
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New Danish construction pension set up
DENMARK – PensionDanmark and the Danish construction industry association Dansk Byggeri have teamed up to offer a new pension product.
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IPE-QUEST: Scandinavian fund tenders high yield
SCANDINAVIA - A Scandinavian pension fund has tendered an initial $50m (€39.9m) in euro-zone high yield debt via IPE-Quest.
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British Airways pension fund sells property
UK – A British Airways pension fund has sold a retail property in Stoke, central England, for £14.3m (€21.3m), according to a release.
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Warwick-Thompson rejoins Hewitt Associates
UK - Andrew Warwick-Thompson has rejoined Hewitt Associates as a principal consultant with responsibility for the business development of the firm's retirement consulting activities.
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IPE-QUEST: Two new searches on system
GLOBAL – There are two new searches, covering global developed markets currency and commodities, on the IPE-Quest system.
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Siemens: sacked pension manager breached code
SWITZERLAND – Siemens says Swiss pension fund manager Roland Rümmeli was fired because he breached the industrial group’s business conduct guidelines.
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EU says six member states at high ageing risk
EUROPE – The European Commission says the public finances of at least six EU member states are at “high risk” due to population ageing.
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PGGM tackles the hedge fund “dilemma”
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the €77bn Dutch health care pension fund, has confronted the hedge fund “dilemma” head on in its latest quarterly report.
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EU takes Italy to court over pension directive
EUROPE – The European Commission is to refer Italy to the European Court of Justice for not transposing the occupational pension fund directive into national legislation.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders €50m balanced
NETHERLANDS – A consultant in the Netherlands has tendered a balanced mandate worth around €50m on behalf of a Dutch pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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Pension Protection Fund seeks actuary
UK – The Pension Protection Fund is looking to recruit an actuary as well as six other posts, according to the PPF website.
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DB buyout firm Synesis hires from Watson, L&G
UK - New pension buyout firm Synesis Life has boosted its staff with hires from Watson Wyatt and Legal & General.
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CSAM gets new institutional distribution head
EUROPE - Credit Suisse has appointed Lehman Brothers’ John Kremer as its new head of European institutional distribution for asset management.
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Dutch FTK prompts investment changes – survey
NETHERLANDS – The new Financial Assessment Framework for Dutch pension funds, or FTK, has prompted changes in funds’ investment policy, a new survey has found.
