All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 34
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IPE Real Estate Awards set for June
EUROPE - The IPE Real Estate Investor Forum and Awards 2006 are taking place at the Amsterdam Hilton on June 1.
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Nuclear option for IORP?
After a somewhat quiet period, the directive on occupational pension funds is now very much back on the agenda at Brussels. It may be hard to believe but it’s now almost two and a half years since the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) directive passed into European legislation. Member ...
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Norway and Iceland missed out on pensions directive
The European Economic Area states of Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein have seemingly been left out in the cold regarding the adoption of the European occupational pension funds directive. “The directive has not been passed in the Joint Committee for the EEA EFTA states,” according to a European Free Trade Association ...
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DB back from the dead
When hedge funds, investment banks and private equity firms get involved it’s a sure sign that there’s some potentially serious money to be made. So what’s the hot new market they’re looking at? You might be surprised to learn that it’s the previously unglamorous field of defined benefit (DB) corporate ...
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New structured products law firm set up
EUROPE - A new law firm has been set up specifically to advise European institutions such as pension funds on the structured investment product market.
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Big European funds back UN investment principles
EUROPE – Some of Europe’s largest pension funds have signed up to the United Nations’ new set of six responsible investment principles.
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EU pension supervisors monitoring bird flu
EUROPE - CEIOPS, the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors, will monitor the avian influenza situation as it evolves.
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KAS Bank loses €70bn sub-custody client
NETHERLANDS – KAS Bank says one of its foreign sub-custody clients has pulled some €70bn.
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Kvaerner Pension Fund in €145m settlement
UK – A dispute over the £1.2bn Kvaerner Pension Fund has been settled with a total payout of £101m (€145m) over six years from TH Global, the former Kvaerner Plc.
