All articles by Fennell Betson
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NewsNow: Pensions worried by auto-enrolment opt-out provisions
UK – Denmark 'some years ahead' with similar problem, says chief executive Lars Rohde.
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Fiduciary management remains attractive despite extra costs – Rabobank Pension Fund
EUROPE – The concept of fiduciary management remains attractive despite adding an extra layer of costs for pension schemes, according to the Rabobank Pension Fund.
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NewsObituary: Koen De Ryck – 'father of European pensions'
EUROPE – It is with deep regret that IPE reports the recent death Koen De Ryck, 66.
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Swiss and Danish funds launch manager searches
[13:00 CEST 11-09] IPE-QUEST - Two new manager searches have been placed on IPE-Quest. The first is for a balanced mandate for a Swiss pension fund, the second is a real estate search for a Danish fund.
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Swiss investor looking for global developed markets debt manager
[13:30 CEST 02-09] IPE QUEST – A Switzerland-based institutional investor is looking for the manager of a corporate debt mandate covering global developed markets.
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Finnish fund looking for high-yield manager
IPE-QUEST – A public pension fund based in Finland is looking for a high yield debt manager in the latest search to be placed through IPE-Quest.
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IPE-Quest launches revamped website
EUROPE – IPE’s web-based manager search facility IPE-Quest has a new look site enabling pension funds and other investor users to navigate the site more easily and to review the features of the service.
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Features
EIAMS casts its net wider in 2008
The eighth European institutional asset management survey reveals that real estate is the alternative of choice and that equities are increasingly popular. Fennell Betson and Tony Pryce outline the key findings
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'Brave new world' cited for investment
[16:45 CET 20-11] UK – Four ‘winning strategies’ will provide the majority of growth for the investment management industry, according to a new white paper.
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Solvency II is a ‘devil in disguise’ – Maassen
[12:30 CEST 28-09] EUROPE – Solvency II will load a very high cost on European occupational pension schemes, according to Jaap Maassen, chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP).
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New institutional FX platform claims to be a world first
GLOBAL – What claims to be the world’s first centrally cleared, global foreign exchange (FX) platform for the over-the-counter market is fully operational.
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Take up of LDI strategies in UK ‘limited’
UK – The implementation of liability driven investment (LDI) strategies remains limited among pensions funds, according to the findings of a survey by Aon Consulting.
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Northern Trust builds LDI team for global push
GLOBAL – US asset manager Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has made a number of key appointments in London and Chicago to expand its liability driven investment (LDI) capabilities.
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UK pension fund derivatives use doubles to €30bn
UK – The use of derivatives by UK pension funds more than doubled last year to £20bn (€29.8bn), according to estimates by international consultants Watson Wyatt, who issued a warning that such structured solutions were not for every fund.
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Features
Siemens - the never ending story
In the first issue of IPE we interviewed Herbert Lohneiss of Siemens who ran the group’s pension investment operations. He brings Fennell Betson up to date about the development over the past 10 years
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Features
Irish funds lead the chasing pack
‘How was it for you, darling?’ is the question being asked by pension funds across Europe. Having had a peek at their own performance, they are wondering how it was for others - that is their returns for 2006. The early results are of course inconclusive by their nature. But ...
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T Rowe Price’s results boosted by international expansion (amended)
GLOBAL - Growth of European assets under management helped boost the total assets of US manager T Rowe Price to $334.7bn (€260bn) at close of 2006, up 24.2% from $269.5bn end 2005.
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Analysts’ concerns pensions liabilities ‘understated’ in IAS accounts
UK - A sizeable proportion of City analysts regard pension liabilities disclosed in a corporate’s accounts under IAS19 as an underestimate, according to a survey among 150 UK-based firms.
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Features
Giving risk every chance to earn
Germany’s largest independent pension provider, the Munich-based BVK multi-employer fund that runs €40bn is assets for 12 different professional and occupational groups has taken the next steps in developing its approach to asset allocation by making risk management core to the process. The introduction of the fund’s new risk budgeting ...
