All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 5
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Features
'Avoid UK's mistakes'
In these days of heated debates on a European Constitution it seemed appropriate that the IPE/Royal Institute of International Affairs conference in London entitled: ‘The Future of European Pensions’, should commence with a conciliatory message from Alan Pickering, chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) that there are ...
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Special Report
Guiding light of shareholder value
When you think of Sweden, you think ‘green’ – environmentally friendly, clean and responsible. The Swedish pension fund world is no exception. Consider AP7’s high profile stock-screening policy based on international corporate social responsibility (CSR) guidelines. At the root, however, the debate between CSR, shareholder value and the role of ...
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News
Fusco takes on key Italian institutional role for ING
ITALY - Marco Fusco has been appointment as head of business development for the institutional business of ING Asset Management Italy..
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News
AP7 looks at e1bn active currency overlay strategy
SWEDEN – The Stockholm-based e2.9bn AP7 fund looks set to introduce an actively managed currency overlay strategy that could be worth up to e1bn next year, in the pursuit of greater outperformance.
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LODH beefs up fixed income team with hires
UK – The London-based asset management arm of Swiss firm Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch (LODH) has appointed Christine Farquhar to head up its fixed income division, as part of a move to boost its bond expertise in the UK.
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News
UK to propose deferring state pension - Pickering
UK - The UK government will bring forward proposals to make it attractive to defer drawing the state pension, according to Alan Pickering, the chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision.
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French reforms insufficient says Lazard’s Thomas
FRANCE - The current proposed reforms to France’s pay-as-you-go pension system will not be sufficient, says Jean-Pierre Thomas, managing director at Lazard Brothers in Paris.
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News
ECB cut could be positive for equities say pension funds
EUROZONE - The 50 basis point cut in Euroland interest rates announced by the European Central Bank is seen as having a generally positive effect for pension funds, despite having been largely priced into the market.
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News
IAPF issues pensions governance booklets
IRELAND - The Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) has launched two new booklets on governance; one on trustee governance and the other on asset governance, for pension funds in the Irish market.
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News
Irish fund returns still in the red for first quarter
IRELAND - The continuing fall in equity markets compounded the run of negative returns for Irish managed funds in the first quarter of this year with average returns to 31 March standing at –5%, according to data from Irish actuarial consultant Coyle Hamilton.
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News
Robeco partners with Russell in multi-manager offering
NETHERLANDS –Rotterdam-based investment manager Robeco and US multi-manager operator Frank Russell Company have signed a partnership deal to launch a multi-manager product into the Dutch retail market from autumn this year.
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News
Eurosif moves to increase SRI fund openness
EUROPE - Eurosif, the European Social Investment Forum, is to pilot the introduction of transparency guidelines for SRI funds in the retail sector this month, in a move which its says could herald similar initiatives for the institutional sector.
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Features
Mapping out the road ahead
It wouldn’t have been hard to guess the theme dominating the concerns of CEOs from Europe’s leading asset management houses over the last year, but seeing it in black and white (pages 2-9) brings it home that much more firmly. Current equity market conditions, of course, are stretching the minds ...
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Features
Cut through to essentials
After three years in a bear market that has seen asset managers operating in Europe bringing out the magnifying glasses to scrutinise the bottom line of a business formerly held up as the great profit driver, you could expect things to be different for those responsible with plotting the way ...
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Features
TNO sticks to its guns
There are not many pension plans in the Netherlands that represent workers across such an eclectic diversity of private/government entities ranging from the qualitative labelling of fruit and vegetables through to the technicians in vehicle crash-test dummy laboratories. This is because the TNO organisation is founded by law in The ...
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Features
Italian resurgence
Change in Italy is natural. As Dante famously wrote in the Divine Comedy: “The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.” Unless, that is, you’re talking about Italian pension reform. Few Italian governments over the years have strayed near ...
