All articles by George Coats – Page 13
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Danish party calls for SP payments to end
DENMARK - Denmark’s right-wing populist Dansk Folkeparti has called for an end to payments into the special pension arrangement, the Særlige Pensions ordning (SP).
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Moving the goal posts
Many in the European pension fund industry would consider their Icelandic colleagues to be in an enviable position. A series of agreements between trade unions and employers since the late 1960s created a structure that has nearly universal coverage, was robust enough to shrug off the financial market meltdown of ...
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Two regional Icelandic schemes in €312m merger
ICELAND - Two regional Icelandic pensions funds, Sudurnes and Sudurland, plan a merger.
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Crédit Agricole AM investment chief Voisin quits
FRANCE - Pascal Voisin, chief investment officer at Crédit Agricole Asset Management, is to leave and be replaced by economic research chief Pascal Blanqué.
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New consolidation moves in Iceland
ICELAND -- Two mergers of Icelandic pension funds have been proposed while the possibility of a third is being discussed.
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Iceland: unskilled workers’ scheme CIO resigns
ICELAND - Bjarni Brynólfsson, managing director and chief investment officer of Icelandic unskilled workers’ pension fund Framsyn, has resigned to take up the post as chief investment officer of investment company Meidur.
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Middle manager views
At end-March 2004 Dutch pension fund had total assets of e480bn, according to the latest Bureau Bosch report on Trends of the Dutch Investment Management Market*. And some e316bn of Dutch institutional assets were managed externally, up from e296.6bn a year earlier. At the top of the rankings the report ...
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The greatest of these is MBS
“US mortgage-backed securities have the highest Sharpe ratios of all US asset classes, stock or bond. Bonds in general have a higher Sharpe ratio than stocks going back ten years. But even among bonds mortgage-backed securities have had the highest Sharpe ratios.This fact surprises many people. “Conventional wisdom states that ...
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Denmark’s PKA puts performance down to equities
DENMARK - Danish industry-wide pension fund PKA group has reported that the eight pension funds within the group achieved a 2004 pre-tax return of between 13.6% and 15.0%.
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December European ETF trading volumes fall
EUROPE -- The aggregate volume of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) traded on European exchanges decreased 1.71% in December from the previous month to 220m shares, according to the Pan European ETF Report.
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Professor joins Dutch consultancy
NETHERLANDS -- Pieter de Lange, professor of pension law at Radboud University, Nijmegen, is to join Dutch consultancy Schols & de Lange in February.
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Aon sells Finnish pension arm to management
FINLAND - Aon Finland Oy has sold its individual life and pension activity to a management buyout, with the new operation being known as Bon Life Oy.
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Swissca changes name and restructures
SWITZERLAND -- Zurich-based asset manager Swissca has changed its name to Swisscanto. The new name also coincides with the merger of the Swissca, Prevista and Servisa operations.
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CSAM targets Danish investors
DENMARK - Credit Suisse Asset Management has received regulatory permission to offer nine Luxembourg-domiciled investment funds to Danish pensions investors from 1 January 2005.
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Boal defection delivers further BIAM blow
IRELAND – The departure of Bank of Ireland Asset Management UK head David Boal to join five previous defectors to Perpetual Trustees has prompted speculation about its future path.
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Dorset County PF names new hedge fund manager
UK -- Dorset County Pension Fund has appointed London and New York-based fund of hedge funds manager International Asset Management (IAM) to manage a diversified portfolio of hedge funds.
