All articles by Fennell Betson – Page 16
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Features
Price of refusing placements
Go executive, go north, west, east or south, if your master bids you. This is one of the uncompromising findings of an expatriate survey among major multinationals by consultants Mercer of a group of major multinationals, most of which were companies with headquarters in continental Europe or the UK. According ...
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Going regional to go global
Recently, Angelien Kemna took the paradoxical step at ING Investment Management of changing her role from global CIO to that of European CIO and at the same time CEO, sharing the rest of the globe with her opposite numbers in the US and Asia-Pacific. A move made so the group, ...
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News
CEA welcomes ‘Danner’ decision as positive
BRUSSELS -The Danner decision of the European Court of Justice gives a new impetus to a single market in supplementary pensions, says the Comite Europeen des Assurances (CEA), which represents the European insurance industry.
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UK Treasury promises new ‘stakeholder products’
UK - A new suite of ‘regulated stakeholder savings products’ is being promised by the Treasury in the UK. These will be based on the stakeholder pension plan introduced last year, probably with a similar cap on annual charges of 1%
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Doing business with the family
When looking to outsource, pension funds are increasingly being given a new opportunity to have their asset management provided by another pension fund which has taken the step of providing these services on a third party commercial basis. This trend has advanced in the Netherlands in particular, where a growing ...
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Adding value the active way
Singer & Friedlander is highly conscious of the fact that has a near-100 year history of operating independently as a bank, one of the few players left in the City of London who can still make such a claim. Over time, it has had to adapt to survive, sometimes quite ...
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Parting of the ways
The City of Zurich Pension Fund certainly belongs to the city as a wide range of local bodies use it as their pensions provider. In addition to city employees, other employers’ staffs can join whose work is of ‘special interest’ for the city, such as housing associations, explains the fund’s ...
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How Shell spreads the gospel
The Shell International group has an impressive pedigree and scale when it comes to pensions provision for its 90,000 employees across the globe. To put this into context, at the end of 2000, the group had pension assets of around $50bn (E51bn). There are in excess of 40 funded schemes ...
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News
BGI sees assets fall and profits rise in 2002
UK/US - Barclays Global Investors (BGI) saw total assets under management fall £30bn (E48bn) to £500bn in the first half of 2002, of which 7.2% was due to market changes. News assets inflow amounted to £33bn, but this was offset by £38bn due to adverse movements in markets, and £25bn ...
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75% of UK pension funds would keep index-linking
UK - Three quarters of UK pension funds would keep index-linking of pensions in payment even if this were no longer compulsory, according the National Association of Pension Funds...
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Preparing for the long haul
While German insurance companies and investment banks have been gearing themselves up for the new Riester market, the significance of the developments in German has not escaped foreign players, in particular, with an eye on the huge predicted asset flows in Europe’s largest economy. International asset manager, Invesco, is one ...
