All articles by Gail Moss – Page 41
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Wednesday people roundup
GLOBAL – Northern Trust, AonHewitt, Aviva Investors, Saltus Partners, StatPro Group, Threadneedle, Fundsmith
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NewsMandate roundup: FRR, BlackRock, Merseyside, PAAMCO
EUROPE – The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has sacked BlackRock Asset Management, which ran a US small cap equity mandate on the fund’s behalf. The mandate, worth worth €478m as at 1 November 2010, accounts for 1.4% of the FRR’s €35.7bn-worth portfolio.
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Features
Bridging the Atlantic
Gail Moss reports on a transatlantic collaboration project between four pension associations to form a joint response on accounting standards proposals
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Country ReportSpain: Where to diversify?
Gail Moss charts the asset allocations of Spanish pension entities and notes the increase in interest in risk management
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FeaturesAlign your interests
Gail Moss assesses how pension fund boards and trustees can make sure their interests are in line with those of their asset managers
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Risk management is top priority, say global investors
GLOBAL – Solving the risk management challenges they face in the next decade is the top priority for institutional investors, according to a survey by Pyramis Global Advisors, the institutional arm of Fidelity.
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NewsOECD says IAS19 changes should highlight long-term nature of DB plans
GLOBAL – The OECD has called for the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) proposed changes to IAS19 to highlight the long-term nature of DB pension promises when recognising the actuarial losses of pension plans.
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FeaturesPooling – how it works
Gail Moss outlines the essential elements of multinational pension and asset pooling, and how smaller pension funds can get in on the act
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NewsAEGON to extend pooled AM platform in Europe
EUROPE – AEGON Global Pensions is planning to extend its pooled asset management platform to pension fund assets in Switzerland, Germany, Ireland and Denmark.
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Van Rompuy throws support behind European Foundation Statute
EUROPE – The European foundation statute (EFS) has moved closer to reality after Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, endorsed its creation in a speech at European Foundation Week earlier this month.
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FeaturesLessons from Canada
Gail Moss assesses the challenges Canada is facing in the area of workplace pensions
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NewsUK to cut gilt sales by £20bn; PwC warns on asset management industry
UK – Planned UK gilt sales in 2010-11 are being reduced by £20.2bn (€24.6bn) to £165bn as a consequence of new forecasts for public finances published in the Budget.
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NewsPensions Board laments massive deficits for Irish DB schemes
IRELAND – Three-quarters of Irish defined benefit (DB) schemes were still in deficit at the end of last year, according to The Pensions Board's 2009 Annual Report.
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NewsUK Budget notes 'huge' public-sector pension liabilities
UK – The first Budget of the UK coalition government – expected to unveil the deepest spending cuts for decades – has produced few surprises for the pensions industry.
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Asset managers expecting global surge in M&A activity
GLOBAL – Asset managers are expecting to see a wave of international merger and acquisition (M&A) activity over the next 12 months, according to a survey by KNEIP.
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NewsItalian asset managers struggling with new rules, survey says
ITALY – Asset managers in Italy may be hard pressed to comply with new governance rules taking effect at the end of this month, according to a survey from RBC Dexia.
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Hutton appointed chairman of UK pensions commission
UK – John Hutton, a secretary of state for work and pensions in the previous Labour government, has been appointed chairman of the UK's Independent Public Service Pensions Commission.
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BP debacle could increase cost of ESG research, experts say
GLOBAL – Institutional investors could end up paying more for investment research following the financial fallout from BP's oil spillage, says Matt Christensen, executive director at Eurosif, a European network and think-tank on sustainable investing.
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NewsSpeculators do not drive commodity prices, says OECD
GLOBAL – Increased investment in commodities is not linked to the price volatility of the physical commodities themselves, according to a report from the OECD.
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Payden & Rygel Global launches Sterling Reserve fund
UK – A fund has been launched to provide pension fund investors with a high-quality investment strategy intended to deliver better yields than those available from bank deposits and money market funds.
