All articles by Fennell Betson – Page 3
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News
Institutions ‘should beware commodity indices’
SPAIN - Institutional investors were put into the dock on their approach to commodities indices, at the World Cup of Indexing Conference.
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Features
Allocation helps double returns
The median Belgian pension fund posted a return of +16.9% over the year 2005, according to Mercer’s Pension Investment Performance Service (PIPS) survey. This figure exceeds the averasge return posted by Belgian Association of Pension Funds of 15.1%. This excellent result is attributable to the strong performance of equity markets. ...
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New style analysis service launched for funds
UK - A new style analysis service for investment and mutual funds has been launched by Style Research directly from its web site, free of charge.
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Enhanced indexers ‘still gaining assets’
SPAIN - Enhanced indexing managers are continuing to attract assets, the World Cup of Investment Management conference has been told.
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Brand name not enough – Watson’s Carter
SPAIN – A brand name is not enough to guarantee asset manager performance – it’s people that count – says Watson Wyatt’s European investment consulting head Kevin Carter.
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INTECH unveils product for European institutions
EUROPE – A global core equity product for European and other institutional investors is being launched tomorrow by US investment manager INTECH, part of Janus Capital.
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State Street’s 2005 revenues grow 10% to $5.5bn
US - Investment services group State Street Corporation has reported a 10% increase in 2005 revenues up to $5.5bn(E4.54bn) from $5bn for the previous year.
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Goldmans launching 35 new UCITS III funds
UK/LUXEMBOURG – Thirty-five new investment funds have been announced by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). Fourteen of the funds will be launched in the next three months, with the rest “subject to client demand”.
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Credit default swaps trades surge in 2005
UK - The average number of credit default swaps (CDS) trades executed each month increased by 89% during 2005, according to London-based Markit Group’s annual ‘scorecard’ of market volumes in credit derivatives.
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Features
Unvarnished Farnish
The “good things” in Lord Turner’s report were welcomed by Christine Farnish, chief executive of the National Pensions Fund Association at the IPE MultiPensions conference in Amsterdam last month. “First of all he is saying the UK needs a simpler pension system. He is suggesting very fundamental reforms to the ...
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‘Fully funded’ may not mean that, says Maher
EUROPE - The European pensions directive’s requirement that IORPs be “fully funded” does not mean exactly that, Irish pensions regulator Anne Maher told the IPE Multipensions Conference in Amsterdam.
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Loss of key people impacts Norway’s Petrol Fund
AMSTERDAM – The loss of key people is the main reason why fund managers are fired by the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, according to its chief executive Knut Kjær.
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F&C ends outsourcing project with Mellon
UK – London-based F&C Asset Management has discontinued its project to outsource the former ISIS Asset Management operational functions to Mellon Financial Services. This followed a failure to agree “satisfactory contractual terms”, a statement said.
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UK defined benefit funding regulations released
UK – The Pensions Regulator has set out how the funding defined benefit pension plans is to be regulated.
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Special Report
Why we need whistleblowers
Keith Ambachtsheer, a pensions guru on both sides of the Atlantic, has a different slant on what can make defined benefit schemes sustainable long term. Speaking recently in the US to a conference of teacher retirement plans, he told delegates: “You need a whistleblower.” Toronto-based Ambachtsheer, who acts as a ...
