People – Page 116
-
NewsBMB recruits Chris Walker for European schemes
[17:25 CET 04-12] GLOBAL – Chris Walker, former managing director of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), has joined alternative asset manager BMB Group ahead of the firm's move to launch Shari'a compliant products for European pension funds.
-
NewsPGGM combines chief finance and risk management role
[17:10 CET 04-12] NETHERLANDS – Jac Kragt has been promoted to become the chief finance and risk officer (CFRO) at the recently disconnected asset management arm of the giant Dutch health care pension fund Zorg & Welzijn (PFZW).
-
NewsJP Morgan to shrink equity derivatives teams
[16:55 CET 04-12] EUROPE – JP Morgan is planning job cuts on its derivatives desk by combining its structured investments distributor (SIDM) and financial institutions distributor (FIDM) teams in derivatives marketing in London, IPE has learnt.
-
NewsWednesday people roundup
[16:30 CET 03-12] GLOBAL – People roundup: USS, Cardano, Bouwfonds Asset Management, T. Rowe Price, Pioneer Investments, Laven Partners, SAM, Pimco, LG, Architas, Insynergy.
-
News
Roche departure strengthens Aon's Swiss team
[16:30 CET 01-12] SWITZERLAND – Matthias Pfiffner, international benefits manager at Roche, has left the pharmaceutical giant to join the pensions team at Aon Consulting Switzerland.
-
News
Former PGGM man heads for Horeca
[16:25 CET 28-11] NETHERLANDS – Paul Braams, previously director at PGGM Advies, is taking over in January as director of the Dutch industry-wide pension fund for the hotel, restaurant, cafe and catering industry.
-
News
Burbach to leave TNO pension fund
[11:55 CET 27-11] NETHERLANDS – Mark Burbach, head of asset management at the €2bn pension fund of the applied scientific research institute TNO, will leave the fund at the end of January to join Blue Sky Group.
-
News
Subjective life expectancy could ease financial pressure
[16:55 CET 26-11] NETHERLANDS – Subjective life expectancy is driving the choice by individuals as to when to retire, according to a new study released by the Dutch pension regulator DNB.
-
News
Wednesday people roundup
[16:45 CET 26-11] GLOBAL – People roundup: APG/Cordares, Telos, Alternative Investment Strategies, Hermes, Mercer, Impax, Aon.
-
News
Push for pensioner board members on hold (amended)
[16:50 CET 25-11] NETHERLANDS – A small group of Dutch politicians have put on hold their proposed amendments to pensions law that would see pensioners become board members of their own industry-wide pension fund boards.
-
News
Dutch government firm on loans to pension funds
[14:15 CET 25-11] NETHERLANDS – Piet Hein Donner, the Dutch minister of social affairs, has confirmed pension funds will not get any financial aid from the government, reconfirming earlier statements of his colleague Wouter Bos, minister of finance.
-
News
SSGA beefs up European equity team
[17:00 CET 24-11] EUROPE - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, has poached two fund managers from rivals BGI and Axa Rosenberg in a bid to boost its European equities team.
-
News
Credit crunch demands practical thinking – Jeurissen
[11:50 CET 21-11] NETHERLANDS – Pension funds need to respond with practical policy adjustments to the current credit crisis, according to Theo Jeurissen, chief investment officer of the €33bn Dutch metal pension fund PMT.
-
News
Credit crisis is opportunity for SRI - Pearce
[11:50 CET 21-11] UK - The current credit crisis and market turmoil could present real opportunities for responsible investment as the weaknesses of the existing financial sector are exposed, suggests Howard Pearce, head of environmental finance and pension fund management at the Environment Agency.
-
News
Costs could drive more pension mergers - Rohde
[11:45 CET 21-11] DENMARK - Growing pressure on pension funds to take advantage of economies of scale, particularly in the current financial climate, could lead to the end of smaller company pension funds, the chief executive of ATP has predicted.
-
News
Infrastructure needs investment - Boender
[11:00 CET 21-11] NETHERLANDS – Guus Boender, and asset liability management professor and partner of ORTEC in Rotterdam, is calling on pension funds to look beyond 'financial titles and invest in logistical and social infrastructure of countries.
-
News
Longevity risk is the 'main issue' for pension funds
[10:45 CET 21-11] EUROPE - Pension funds' "exposure to longevity risk" is still the main liability issue facing pension funds today, Professor David Blake, director of the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School, has warned.
-
News
And the IPE Awards 2008 winners are…
[00:15 CET 21-11] EUROPE – De Eendragt Pensioen NV, the pension provider for the paper and packaging industry pension fund, was tonight named as the ‘best of the best’ European pension funds at the IPE Awards 2008 while Philip Neyt was honoured with an award for his Outstanding Contribution to ...
-
News
Fix regulatory 'downward spiral' – Van Nunen
[16:30 CET 20-11] EUROPE – Fiduciary management consultant Anton van Nunen has warned one of the most imminent problems pension funds no face is the downward spiral caused by regulation from which pension funds currently suffer.
-
News
Diversification impact 'has decreased' - Verhaegen
[12:00 CET 20-11] EUROPE - The global economic crisis has led to a decreased effectiveness of portfolio diversification for pension funds, according to Chris Verhaegen, secretary general for the European Federation Retirement Provision (EFRP).
