All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 32
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Actuaries warn of Myners' one size fits all slant
UK – The actuarial profession has become the latest in a line of pensions industry bodies to express concern over recommendations in the Myners Report on institutional investment...
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F&C says emerging markets 'not dead'
EMERGING MARKETS – Pan-European asset manager F&C Management, formerly Foreign & Colonial and now part of the Eureko group, says emerging markets will grow at twice the rate of their developed counterparts this year and stay strong beyond that....
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SPC warns UK Treasury over damage to schemes
UK – The UK Society of Pension Consultants has warned that hasty adoption of the Myners Report on institutional investing could lead to the demise of occupational pension schemes...
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Dow Jones aligns Industrial Average with Europe
US/EUROPE – Dow Jones Indexes is planning to extend the real time calculation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 13 hours a day in order that it begins at the start of the European trading day....
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US brings AIMR/PPS into line with global standard
US/EUROPE – The US has redrafted its AIMR/PPS investment performance standard guidelines to bring them in line with GIPS, the Global Investment performance Standards, in a significant move forward for worldwide ethical standards in asset management....
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Allianz Dresdner unveils e1trn asset manager
GERMANY – The proposed German insurance/banking powerhouse of Allianz and Dresdner Bank today outlined its future asset management plans with the creation of e1trn outfit Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (ADAM)....
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Ireland gets first global performance standard
IRELAND - Ireland has become the first country to have its local investment performance standards verified as a country version of GIPS - the Global Investment Performance Standards....
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New chair for international pensions network
EUROPE/US - Susan Hunt, president of San Francisco based independent brokerage firm Woodruff Sawyer, has been elected as the new chairman of International Benefits Network (IBN)...
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Belgian funds post third lowest returns on record
BELGIUM – Belgian pension funds returned an average of –0.07% for 2000, according to the final results of the Belgian Association of Pension Funds' annual performance analysis, the third lowest figure since the statistics were started.....
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Equities rebound below 50% in Belgian schemes
BELGIUM - Pension funds reduced their exposure to equity last year from 53% in 1999 to 49.9% in 2000, dipping below the halfway mark broken last year due to the turbulence in the markets, according to this years performance figures from the Belgian Association of Pension Funds (BAPF)....
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Crunch hearing for pensions directive on Monday
EUROPE – The European Parliament’s socialist group is sticking to its guns over the question of biometric risk cover for occupational pension schemes, ahead of a crucial amendment hearing on the European pensions directive on Monday (May 28)...
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MEP proposes European pension committee idea
German MEP Wilfried Kuckelkorn has recommended that Member States set up a committee consisting of representatives of all countries to facilitate information exchanges on pensions by national legislators....
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Fortis opens Dutch prime banking office
NETHERLANDS – Fortis PrimeBanking, the Dutch group’s investment services provider to funds and alternative investment funds, has opened an Amsterdam office adding to its existing operations in London and New York....
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Dow Jones unveils UK Titans 50 Index
UK – Dow Jones has announced that it will launch the Dow Jones UK Titans 50 Index based on UK blue-chip companies on June 12....
