Hugh Wheelan
NewsAsset managers to up RI focus by 35%
[15:50 CEST 10-06] Global asset managers predict that the level of assets they manage according to responsible investment criteria, such as themed sustainability funds, negative stock screening and activist engagement with companies, will rise by more than $700bn (€443bn) in the next two years.
- Special Report
Playing the long game
Created in 2003, the Marathon Club’s mission is to get pension funds thinking again in terms of long-term planning, not pursuing short-term gains. Hugh Wheelan reports
- Features
France's elephant in the larder
Beneath the political rhetoric for May’s presidential election lies a ballooning public debt problem and an unsustainable pension system, says Hugh Wheelan
- Features
Dipping a toe into foreign waters
Finland may not be the first institutional market that springs to mind when you think of serious international allocations to real estate. Nonetheless, Helsinki-based mutual pensions insurance company Ilmarinen, one of the country’s largest institutions, is dipping a toe into overseas property investment to diversify a portfolio heavily skewed towards ...
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Ex-API chief Reid in Smedvig real estate link
UK - Iain Reid, former chief executive of Aberdeen Property Investors, has announced his return to the real estate arena.
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DeAM names European real estate securities head
EUROPE - Deutsche Asset Management has hired John Hammond from Schroders as head of European real estate securities - a new business area for the group’s London property division.
- Features
Operating on a number of fronts
Peter Borgdorff, director of the Vereniging van Bedrijfstakpensioenfondsen or VB, for short, the association for Dutch industry-wide pension funds in The Hague, says there is reason for his members to be pleased with the outcome of the recent government proposals on pension reform. Harking back to the infamous September 2002 ...
- Features
All hands on deck for this system
Despite being in the job for not more than a year, Dirk Witteveen, chairman of the Dutch Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority (PVK), made a name for himself – for better or for worse – when he wrote his infamous solvency letter to Dutch pension funds in September 2002. The ...
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Denmark’s ATP names Nielsen as real estate MD
DENMARK – Michael Nielsen has been named as the new Managing Director of ATP Ejendomme, the real estate arm of Denmark’s largest pension scheme, the 38 billion-euro ATP Danish labour market pension plan.
- Features
French warm to new plans
When France underwent its major pension reforms last year, all eyes were on the big issue of public sector change - the hurdle on which French governments had stumbled badly in the past. That the government finally won its battle for actuarial equivalence between public and private sector pensions with ...
- Features
How the good times returned to Europe
Comparing performance returns between pension funds in different European countries is by no means an exact science. Indeed, comparing pension fund returns between two performance measurers in the same European country can be equally imprecise. Take Switzerland for example. Publishing its 2003 universe figures, performance measurement firm InterSec recorded that ...
