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NewsSwiss asset management market opens following UBS takeover of Credit Suisse
Graubündner Kantonalbank splits institutional business from private banking, hires ex-Credit Suisse head
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Swiss Post and PKBS deliver below average returns
SWITZERLAND – The Pensionskasse of the Swiss postal service (PK Post) as well as the one of the city of Basel (PKBS) returned 9.43% and 10.4% respectively last year - less than other pensionskassen because of their lower risk strategies.
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NewsPensionskasse Post boosts infrastructure, real estate investments
The scheme allocated CHF100m for impact investments in infrastructure
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Special ReportSwitzerland: Workplace pension reform faces referendum test
The country is introducing regulations on greenwashing and fund investments, while debating how to fund the first and second-pillar pension systems
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Swiss Post executive resigns over vote at Nestle AGM
SWITZERLAND - Jürg Bucher, head of the investment committee for the CHF11bn (€7.1bn) pension fund for Post employees, Post PK, has bowed to mounting pressure to resign after voting in favour of Nestle’s CEO Peter Brabeck becoming group chairman as well.
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Country ReportSwitzerland pensions report 2023: funds consider next move with UBS and Credit Suisse
Fears of market concentration in asset management and custody services are leading Swiss Pensionskassen to rethink relations with the enlarged UBS
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SFr10bn Swiss Post fund gets go ahead
SWITZERLAND – The country’s Conseil Fédérale today gave the final green light to the transfer of some 70,000 postal workers from the traditional federal pension plan into an SFr10bn (e6.5bn) pension foundation for the Swiss post office....
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Special ReportSwitzerland: Heated debate ahead of second-pillar referendum
The workplace pension system reform must clear the final hurdle of a national referendum and Pensionskassen will have to start to follow new guidelines on ESG
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Swiss, UK pension investors file climate resolution at Credit Suisse
Bank ‘acknowledges’ proposal, points to imminent publication of more info
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Swiss postal fund gets CHF250m injection
[16:15 CET 26-03] SWITZERLAND – The pension scheme of the Swiss Post is once again missing billions, having already received several rounds of funding, so its sponsor company is now intending to plug the hole with more money.
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New Swiss postal scheme returns -3.1% in first year
SWITZERLAND – The Swiss post office workers’ pension scheme says it lost 3.1% in its first year – though it says there is no cause for concern at the moment.
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NewsSwiss pension funds turn backs on securities lending market
SWITZERLAND – Schemes cite 'unattractive' risk/reward, conflicts of interest with borrowers.
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SFr10bn fund elects president to begin outsourcing
SWITZERLAND - The newly created SFr10bn (e6.5bn) pension foundation for the Swiss post office has elected Jurg Puchar as president of the board, in advance of a full board announcement and details of investment outsourcing expected in mid-May....
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Switzerland: Smart on beta benchmarks
Swiss pension funds have mostly shied away from alternatively weighted benchmark strategies. Cécile Sourbes finds that adoption will depend on thorough analysis and transparency of data
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Swiss Fund seeks additional managers for €2.4bn
SWITZERLAND – The SFr10bn (€6.8bn) Swiss Post Office pension fund is to begin searching for additional asset managers in March, having already selected UBS Asset Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Pictet to run various portfolios for the recently-created fund.
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NewsPension funds should 'put pressure' on index providers over transparency
SWITZERLAND – Providers should disclose calculations underpinning benchmarks, experts say.
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NewsSwiss roundup: Towers Watson, Swiss Leader Index, Zurich BVK
Largest listed Swiss companies increase coverage ratios to 88% – far from pre-crisis levels.
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Special ReportTop 1000 Pension Funds 2024: Pensions back at a sweet spot
Assets for the leading 1000 European pension funds grew by 8.7% year-on-year, reversing last year’s loss of 6.8%. This brings total assets back up to above their previous high water mark of €9.7trn in 2022’s research exercise. This year’s overall net gain in assets of €775bn is the largest since 2021’s increase of €810bn.
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Securities Services: Stuck in the shadows
Securities lending took a major hit in the 2008 crisis. For those funds that stayed the course, Cécile Sourbes finds new regulation promising more activity, but threatening to raise costs
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Fundamental shift in ESG
Nina Röhrbein looks at how the ESG market in Switzerland is moving on from the ideological and political corner of SRI to the real performance of sustainability
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