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InterviewsPremier Foods deal: ingredients unusual, but principle replicable
A ‘landmark’ pensions agreement has been struck at the UK food manufacturer
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UK roundup: Premier Foods, RHM, SEI
UK – Premier sees group-wide pensions deficit fall £70m on back of discount-rate increase.
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NewsUK roundup: PPG Industries, Merseyside, Premier Foods
[17:00 CET 08-02] UK - The PPG Industries pension scheme is adopting a delegated consulting approach, while Merseyside has re-tendered £500m (€571m) of equity portfolios and Premier Foods is considering longevity solutions for its pension scheme.
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NewsUK roundup: Hymans Robertson, Premier Foods, AJ Bell
UK – Hymans Robertson has outlined its proposals for a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for reform to public sector pensions in submissions made to Lord Hutton’s pension review.
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Special ReportUK: Labour government seeks continuity with focus on boosting domestic investment
The Department for Work and Pensions will have its work cut out as the new Labour government starts a comprehensive pensions review
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BT slashes cost of legacy pension equalisation
UK company annual reports are starting to reflect less pessimistic estimates of the cost of October’s court ruling
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UK roundup: Falling life expectancy could reduce liabilities
Fresh mortality data could also pose problems for longevity swap pricing, consultant warns
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Special ReportUK: Encouraging UK growth through consolidation
The UK government is pursuing plans to leverage pension assets to boost economic growth while generating best returns for members
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Whitbread pensions chief Williams to retire
Outgoing PLSA chair will be succeeded by Asda pensions director Steve Jones in January
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Special ReportUK: Funding challenges amid continued market uncertainty
The UK’s pension regulator emphasises the need for schemes to focus on long-term planning, transparency and risk management
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NewsUK roundup: Tyne & Wear, JP Morgan, BlackRock, LLMA, Aon Hewitt
UK – The Tyne & Wear Pension Fund has awarded four investment mandates, worth a total of £1.3bn (€1.5bn), to companies including JP Morgan Asset Management and BlackRock.
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Morgan Stanley survey reveals firms with largest pension liabilities
EUROPE – Alcatel Lucent has largest liability as percentage of market cap – 140%.
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Special ReportUK: Consolidation remains controversial
Guidance on the long-awaited legislation setting out a regulatory framework for superfunds is finally released
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Longevity swap market to hit £10bn in 2010
[17:00 CET 17-02] UK – The value of longevity swap deals covering UK pensioner liabilities outstripped the combined value of buyout and buy-in transactions in 2009, despite the market only taking off in the third quarter of the year.
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Mandate roundup: Merseyside, State Street, Norfolk County Council, Teesside, BNP Paribas
UK – Merseyside selects new manager to oversee 30% of its £5bn in assets, replacing L&G and UBS.
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Small schemes' trustees in conflict of interest
[13:17 CEST 07/06] UK – Small pension funds’ trustees boards will encounter conflicts of interest with their corporate sponsor, according to David Blackwood, group treasurer at paints producer ICI.
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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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NewsUK roundup: Barclays UK Retirement Fund, CBI, Ofgem, Babcock, Aon Hewitt
UK – The £18.2bn (€21.6bn) Barclays UK Retirement Fund's internal investment team has been renamed Oak Pensions Asset Management (OPAM) to give them more flexibility to execute investment decisions.
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Equity Sectors: All about the luxury brand
Charlotte Moore finds that the consumer sector is no longer all about staples and cyclicals, but rather brands and emerging markets
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After a couple of weeks of stabilisation, US bond yields headed higher again and traded through 3% at the 10-year maturity point.
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