All articles by George Coats – Page 14
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PwC named to help UK clearance procedure
UK -- The Pensions Regulator Programme has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers to help develop a clearance procedure to ensure that companies and individuals undertaking legitimate corporate transactions will not fall foul of the ‘moral hazard’ clauses contained in the Pensions Act.
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Thomas Murray sets up alternatives services unit
UK -- London-based securities services ratings, research and advisory firm Thomas Murray has established an alternatives investments services division, Thomas Murray Alternative Investment Services (TMAIS).
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TUC unhappy at Hewitt’s ‘Trojan horse’
UK -- The UK’s trade union grouping, the TUC, says that it is unhappy with Tuesday's announcement by trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt that British workers can no longer be forced to retire before 65.
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UK managers unveil new hedge and cash funds
UK -- Threadneedle Asset Management is to launch its Threadneedle Global Crescendo Fund towards the end of the first quarter of next year.
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Mixed response to ETF pensions report
UK -- British trade unions responded to Monday’s employer task force (ETF) report on pensions by calling for compulsion to be part of any long-term solution to the pensions crisis.
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Pen-Sam completes DKK6bn mandate switch
DENMARK -- Denmark's DKK47.0bn Pen-Sam Pensionfund has completed a restructuring of some DKK4.5bn of its DKK8bn equity portfolio with the awarding of a DKK1.1bn US equities index mandate to Nordea Investment Management ad a DKK1bn US all-cap equity mandate to T. Rowe Price.
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Positive November for Portuguese pensions funds
PORTUGAL -- Portuguese pension funds had a positive November on the back of a good month in the financial markets, according to pension fund consultant Watson Wyatt.
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Horlick returns to City with Bramdean
UK – Institutional multi-manager and fund management consultancy Bramdean Asset Management will begin operating in January.
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Features
Hitting the right mark
The message from the asset management community in Denmark is broadly: ‘It’s still tough out there but it has been a lot tougher.’ In part the difficulties are a result of changes as pension fund and other institutional investors reassess their positions after the 2000-2002 market collapse. But it is ...
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Bond market is the key
Being small and in the middle of the Atlantic make Iceland easy for asset managers to overlook. Its prosperity, fully funded pension system and outperforming equity market mean that it is probably a mistake to do so. “Given the number of people living there it’s an interesting market,” says Peter ...
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FRR to take on utilities’ E3bn pension assets
FRANCE - French pensions reserve fund, the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, expects a cash injection of more than three billion euros next year as it takes on assets from France’s energy utility firms.
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SocGen says markets, regulation prompted GSSI
FRANCE - French financial services group Société Générale has fleshed out the rationale behind its decision earlier this year to set up SG GSSI, Global Securities Services for Investors – citing market changes and European regulation.
