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NewsIPE to bring you IPNederland
[14:00 CET 07-01] NETHERLANDS - Investment & Pensions Europe is adding a new publication to its investment and pensions stable, known as IPNederland - a standalone Dutch-language publication covering the pensions and institutional investment arena in The Netherlands.
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Unions handed controls for BAA emerging landing
UK – The first of the three planned strike actions at the UK's busiest airports has been halted after airport operator BAA has said it will hold back from closing its final salary pension scheme.
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'Rebalancing' nations will prevent global recession - Principal
[11:00 CET 21-12] GLOBAL – Though a global recession is unlikely, developed nations may experience a rebalancing of financial power, a US economist has suggested.
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CalPERS pursues infrastructure and private equity
[12:30 CET 19-12] US - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has adopted a new asset allocation mix which will see $29bn shift out of bonds and equities to finance increased investment in private equity, infrastructure and real estate.
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Hungarian funds increase equity exposure
[13:00 CET 19-12] HUNGARY – Pension funds will start to double equity exposure in some portfolios from January in anticipation of new regulation.
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Pension funds negotiate investment rules
[16:30 CET 17-12] BULGARIA – The association of Bulgarian pension management companies (BASPC) has called on the government to lift the cap on mandatory pension schemes’ investment in equities and argued schemes should be allowed to participate in IPOs.
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PFA leaps allocation to tap infrastructure growth
[15:30 CET 17-12] DENMARK – The huge Danish PFA corporate pension fund has boosted its infrastructure investment and plans to move even further into the asset class next year, probably including direct investments in the sector for the first time.
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Military unions place levensloop with Aegon
[16:15 CET 14-12] NETHERLANDS - Three unions for military personnel have made arrangements to set up a ‘levensloop’, or life course, scheme with insurer Aego, instead of placing contributions with the scheme of their employer, the ministry of Defence.
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Teesside seeks Northern custody support
[13:30 CET 14-12] UK – Middlesbrough Borough Council has reappointed Northern Trust as custodian on behalf of the £2.2bn (€3bn) Teesside pension fund.
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Volkswagen revamps UK fund
[12:00 CET 14-12] UK – The £160m (€222m) UK pension fund of German car maker Volkswagen has today confirmed it is moving towards a liability driven investment (LDI) strategy.
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Dutch Unilever fund continues direct real estate
[15:45 CET 13-12] NETHERLANDS – The €4bn Dutch pension fund of Unilever, known as Progress, has strongly denied it intends to sell off its direct real estate holdings.
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Pearl to share Axial lessons with RAM
[15:30 CET 13-12] UK – Axial Investment Management looks set to share its asset liability investment skills with Resolution Asset Management for the benefit of the institutional market, once the two firms are merged by their parent Pearl Group.
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Sicily, Lombardy and Veneto mull territorial fund
[12:00 CET 12-12] ITALY – The Italian regions Lombardy, Veneto and Sicily are looking at adopting territorial pension fund arrangements similar to PensPlan for the Trentino region.
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Ionis eyes cross-border fund cooperation
[14:00 CET 11-12] FRANCE – Ionis, the €200m French pensions and savings group, is mulling cross-border cooperation with Belgium, Spain, Switzerland and Italy.
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ATP acts to hedge inflation
[17:05 CET 07-12] DENMARK - Denmark’s huge labour market pension fund ATP has been steadily increasing its exposure to the oil market and other investment sectors that will do well under conditions of higher inflation.
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Evidence sees plan types divided on DC choices
[17:00 CET 07-12] UK - Pensions investor still face a “surfeit of choice” as seven out of 10 contract-based occupational defined contribution (DC) schemes give their members 20 or more funds to invest in, Watson Wyatt has found.
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Dutch journos joins Grafische Bedrijven
[12:30 CET 06-12] NETHERLANDS – The €13m Dutch daily newspaper journalists’ pre-pension fund will be liquidated when its liabilities are transferred to the €6.4bn Dutch pension fund for the printing industry, Grafische Bedrijven (PGB).
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Merseyside looks set to drop BGI mandate
[15:30 CET 05-12] UK – Barclays Global Investors could lose the contract to manage a UK equities mandate for the Merseyside pension fund, following a review of the local government scheme’s asset allocation strategy.
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Education no substitute for good default – Harvard academic
[15:00 CET 04-12] GLOBAL – Financial education and matching contributions from employers for DC schemes will not help raise the pensions savings rate, David Laibson, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has suggested.
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Redefine DC categories, argues Nobel laureate
[13:00 CET 30-11] GLOBAL – Default categories for defined contribution pensions should be devised according to "prototypes" of employees, Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz has recommended.
