All articles by George Coats – Page 9
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PensionDanmark starts real estate project
DENMARK – PensionDanmark today began building apartments in Måløv, near Copenhagen, that will be ready for occupation at the end of 2007.
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Where size matters
The EU pensions directive is focusing the minds of Belgian pension funds. But it is not the implementation of the directive that is causing the major concern but a series of proposed changes that accompany it. The directive should have been introduced last September but legislation transposing its provisions into ...
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Why scheme members are key
Peter Scales is retiring as chief executive of the £3.5bn (€5bn) London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) and will leave the post at the end of the year. George Coats asks the questions What was your first full-time job – do you remember what you were paid at the time? ...
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Mn Services names equities director
NETHERLANDS - Dutch fiduciary management firm Mn Services has named Patrick Wierckx as director of equities.
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Crédit Agricole AM mulls US acquisition - CIO
FRANCE - Crédit Agricole Asset Management is considering an acquisition in the US, according to chief investment officer Pascal Blanqué.
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OECD warns on Portuguese pension system
PORTUGAL – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has warned that the Portuguese pension system needs radical action to keep it financially viable.
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Driven to short-term views
Some 10 years ago, remembers Mn Services interim commercial director Pieter Kiveron, finance minister Gerrit Zalm was quoted as advising pension fund managers to make sure that there were four of them because then they could at least play cards. The implication was that otherwise they would have very little ...
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Gearing up for changes
In an unguarded moment during a visit to New Zealand last year prime minister Göran Persson told a local interviewer that if the younger generation in Sweden really understood what the country’s new pension system meant in terms of a final pension they would not have accepted it. Although a ...
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PensionDenmark reports €500m surplus
DENMARK – PensionDenmark has posted a surplus of DKK4.3m (€576m) for 2005.
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PensionDenmark lifts 2006 account rate to 6%
DENMARK – PensionDenmark is to increase the temporary account interest rate for 2006 to 6% from a previously decided 5% - thanks to higher than expected returns.
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ABN Amro exits Czech asset management
CZECH REPUBLIC – ABN Amro has sold its Czech asset management outfit to two Prague-based firms for an undisclosed amount.
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Plague of history
Last year the outlook for Austria’s pension schemes, the Pensionskassen, was not very promising. “The Pensionskassen started in 1990 as a way to enable companies to shift the risk of corporate pension funds from their balance sheets,” recalls Kurt Bednar of Mercer in Vienna. “They gained in popularity as equities ...
