Advisers – Page 117
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UK councils tender bonds, equities and property
UK - Northamptonshire, Essex and North Yorkshire County Councils have put out requests for tenders for equity, bond and real estate portfolios worth a total of more than £500m (€715.5m).
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Towers Perrin's Garcia joins T. Rowe Price
UK – Asset manager T. Rowe Price says it has hired Philip Garcia, head of UK investment consulting at Towers Perrin.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders high-yield debt
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch pension fund has started a search for a manager for a €150m pan-European high yield debt mandate via IPE–Quest.
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Switzerland’s Nussbaum fears for 3-pillar system
SWITZERLAND – Werner Nussbaum, one of the architects of the Swiss second pillar pension system, says he has fears about the “destruction” of the three-pillar concept.
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Italy’s Priamo opts for domestic asset managers
ITALY – The Italian pension fund for public transport workers, Fondo Pensione Priamo, has chosen its asset managers – all of whom are Italian.
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KAS Bank says it’s now more European
NETHERLANDS – KAS Bank, the Dutch securities services bank, said 2004 had been a “good year”, reporting a “considerable” number of new clients – and that it has transformed itself into a “European” player.
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BBC refuses comment on DeAM report
UK -- The BBC’s £6bn (€8.7bn) pension scheme has declined comment on a report that it has dumped Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) in the UK due to poor performance.
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Poll finds pensions pose M&A threat
UK -- Almost half of the chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading companies in the UK say that the pension liabilities of companies they are considering buying or merging with are serious obstacles.
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Ryan ALM offers daily liability monitoring
GLOBAL – Ryan ALM has unveiled a web-based system that monitors pension asset/liability risk on a daily basis.
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Swiss MM starts to motor
One particular feature of the Swiss pension fund market has been a big driver in the development of multi-manager investment. “Swiss pension funds have been in the vanguard when it comes to hedge fund investment, with some very substantial allocations. And hedge fund investment almost always uses the MM approach”, ...
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Boal defection delivers further BIAM blow
IRELAND – The departure of Bank of Ireland Asset Management UK head David Boal to join five previous defectors to Perpetual Trustees has prompted speculation about its future path.
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Vodafone pensions chief joins Towers Perrin
UK - Paul Kelly, who heads up the £2.5bn (E3.6bn) pension fund at Vodafone, is leaving the telecommunications giant to join global human resources consultancy Towers Perrin.
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UK says schemes need to do more on Myners
UK – The UK government says it has reviewed the take-up of the Myners principles on institutional investment and found that “further action is needed” for pension schemes - in particular on trustee training and decision making.
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NAPF names new chairman to succeed Faulkner
UK – Pinsents lawyer Robin Ellison has been named as the new chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds, taking over from Terry Faulkner.
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UK government report slams actuaries
UK – A new government-sponsored review of the actuaries in the UK has slammed the profession – finding among other things a concentration of advice to the largest pension funds and a possible restriction of competition.
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IAS 19 brought into line with the UK’s FRS 17
GLOBAL -- The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has amended the international pension cost standard IAS 19 to bring it into line with the UK retirement benefits standard FRS 17.
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Metzler in German institutional asset boost
GERMANY - Citing robust investor demand for so-called “master funds,” Germany’s Metzler Asset Management says its institutional assets under management (AUM) have increased by almost one-third this year.
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SN says Dutch population ageing rapidly
NETHERLANDS - A quarter of the Dutch population will be over the age of 65 around 2040, Statistics Netherlands has forecast.
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US IT giant EDS to buy Germany’s BHW Invest
GERMANY -- BHW Invest, a German asset manager specialising in the so-called master fund concept, is to be sold to US information technology giant EDS.
