All articles by Jonathan Williams – Page 17
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Janwillem Bouma elected as chair of PensionsEurope
Head of Shell’s Dutch pension fund succeeds Joanne Segars after three years chairing pension association
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UK pension fund for Philips completes £2.4bn buyout
Pension Insurance Corporation reinsures longevity risk with Hannover Re
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Pension funds for East Riding, Surrey and Cumbria in £9bn pooling talks
Local authority funds say vehicle could grow to £20bn after successful negotiations with other local schemes
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Lothian in-house manager to target alternatives, private sector mandates
Local authority pension fund’s in-house management team seeks to attract private sector clients
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UK sponsors face tax on pension fund investment costs
HMRC policy paper comes in wake of ECJ case brought by Dutch firm PPG
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AP fund reform will make long-term investing 'difficult if not impossible'
Buffer funds respond to proposals that would see closure of two funds
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UK Local Government Pension Scheme: The only certainty is change
After years of uncertainty, UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has signalled his desire for radical structural change among the UK’s local authority pension funds.
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Capital Markets Union: A single market for capital
Pledging to “knock down barriers” and let capital flow freely across the European Union, Jonathan Hill, commissioner for financial stability, announced in September how he would achieve the European Commission’s pledge for a Capital Markets Union (CMU).
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Asset owners in Paris
Next month world leaders will gather in Paris to discuss the future of the planet. It might be a sweeping generalisation to view the UN Climate Change Conference as such a crucial event, but the summit marks the first time since 2009 that governments stand a chance of concluding a treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
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Special Report
COP21 and Investors: What will Paris deliver?
One month away from the Paris climate change talks, Jonathan Williams asks how likely are investors to be faced with a repeat of the failed summit in Copenhagen.
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UK roundup: FCA, PLSA, trustees, TPR
UK pension association calls on regulator to consider role of trustees under new pensions freedoms
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LPFA calls for creation of infrastructure clearing house
Clearing house would give local authority funds better access to local projects, organisation says
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Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and Clwyd back SME fund
Foresight Group fund targets SMEs based in North West region of England
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ICI fund agrees buy-ins worth £1.8bn with Legal & General, Prudential
Further deals see fund insure more than half of liabilities
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Swiss pension fund association welcomes cut to minimum interest rate
Government cuts minimum interest rate for occupational schemes by 50 basis points
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Pictet AM global head of institutional business to retire
Christoph Lanter to retire after 15 years at Swiss bank’s asset management arm
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NewsNorwegian sovereign fund suffers 4.9% quarterly loss
Volatile equity markets see listed holdings return -8.5%, as fixed income, real estate remain positive
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Asset Class ReportsPGGM keen on 'space between' private equity, infrastructure
Dutch manager looks at assets with lower operational risk, while taking equity stake
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Asset managers say capital markets must be ‘servants of society’
Investors risk ending up in ‘miserable world’ if no action taken
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Norway's sovereign fund calls for transparency on water lobbying
Norges Bank Investment Management urges companies to disclose engagement with regulators, governments
