All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 22
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Features
A Selective Focus
ABN AMRO’s Dutch pension fund believes its focus on all stakeholder interests has helped prevent it from dropping below its statutory funding level. Liam Kennedy spoke to Rob Meuter, chairman of the trustee board, and Geraldine Leegwater, head of investments for the fund’s in-house pension bureau
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Country Report
Wag the dog
Liam Kennedy spoke with the chief executive of the UK’s NAPF, Joanne Segars, about pensions, lobbying and the association’s ideas for optional indexation H
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FeaturesNetherlands: Pragmatism reigns
Mariska van der Westen and Liam Kennedy review the changes that The Hague has in mind for Dutch pension funds this year and next
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FeaturesUK: A chink of light
A small compromise in the treatment of accrued rights might signal a more flexible approach to benefit indexation in the future, finds Liam Kennedy
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Interviews
From silos to solutions
BlackRock has been active in fiduciary management since 2005, when it purchased the internal asset management operation of the Philips pension fund in the Netherlands and was awarded a fiduciary mandate to manage the assets.
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Features
Future foundation
Liam Kennedy discussed the investment philosophy of Germany’s VolkswagenStiftung with its CIO, Dieter Lehmann
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Special Report
An alternative to Spezialfonds
Liam Kennedy spoke with Universal Investment about an alternative to the Spezialfonds that could also assist Germany’s first steps towards attracting international pension pooling business
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News
No outbreak of greed at financial firms - study
GLOBAL – Governance at financial firms has not been significantly worse than at other companies, and the executive directors of banks were not over-paid, according to the first empirical study of pay and governance since the financial crisis.
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NewsEuropean pensions see profound changes - EIAMS 2009
[10:00 CEST 06-07] EUROPE - European institutional investors are changing the way they allocate assets and interact with external service providers, according to the latest European Institutional Asset Management Survey, conducted by IPE.
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Special Report
Trillions of dollars of expense
US institutions discussed the prospect of a new investment world at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles at the end of April. Liam Kennedy, who moderated the institutional investors’ panel, here discusses what they had to say
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News
Norway seeks partners in climate change risk study
[16:00 CEST 03-06] GLOBAL - Norway's Government Pension Fund has signed up to a project led by Mercer to measure the impact of climate change on strategic asset allocation.
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Special Report
‘We ate all the nuts’
Liam Kennedy interviewed PIMCO’s Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian at their offices in Newport Beach, California
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News
EC to look at solvency rules on pensions
[14:15 CEST 27-05] EUROPE - The European Commission is to conduct an impact assessment of solvency rules for EU pension funds before it responds to last year's consultation on the topic and a public hearing that was held in Brussels today.
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News
Henkel creates global fiduciary pensions structure
[16:00 CEST 27-04] GLOBAL - Henkel, the Düsseldorf-based personal and consumer goods multinational, has completed what is thought to be the first global restructuring of pension schemes as a notional pooling structure and appointed three firms to manage its plans globally as custodian, fiduciary and risk manager.
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NewsDeal confirms iShares sale to CVC
[16:25 CEST 09-04] GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors today confirmed the sale of its iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs) division to CVC Partners at a sale price of $4.4bn (€3.3bn).
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Country Report
Funding in a changed world
Liam Kennedy assesses the measures German companies are taking to address pension funding issues and future plan design
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Country Report
Case for complexity
Liam Kennedy spoke with Dr Boy-Jürgen Andresen, a grandee of German pensions who is shortly to retire as chairman of the board of Watson Wyatt Heissmann
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Features
Governance: more questions than answers
At IPE’s Pension Fund Governance Forum last month, Karel Stroobants, independent trustee and former director of the Belgian Amonis fund, wanted to know why there was so little debate on how the guardians of $20-plus trillion in retirement wealth actually govern themselves.
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News
Andy Mack replaces Dilworth at MSIM Europe
[12:10 CET 25-03] EUROPE - Jim Dilworth has left his position as Europe head at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) after just two years in the role, a spokeswoman has confirmed.
