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Final Tabaksblatt governance report due
NETHERLANDS – The final report of the Tabaksblatt committee of corporate governance will be presented to the Dutch government tomorrow.
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KPMG sells Swiss and Belgian consulting arms
EUROPE – KPMG has sold Swiss and Belgian consulting operations to Mercer and Aon respectively.
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Ageing could boost German markets – report
GERMANY – A new academic report has argued that demographic ageing is not necessarily a bad thing for German capital markets.
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TNO puts E30m into hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – The 1.3 billion-euro pension fund of Dutch research institute TNO has allocated 30 million euros to hedge funds, taking the cash out of equities.
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Swiss fund tenders E32m via IPE-Quest
SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund has tendered a mandate for enhanced Swiss equities worth 50 million Swiss francs (32 million euros) via IPE-Quest.
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DB schemes still growing strong - Mellon
UK - Defined benefit schemes are still going strong, despite the well-publicised drift towards defined contribution schemes.
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Mellon boosts European transition management
EUROPE - Mellon Global Investments has hired Julie Dickson from Barclays Global Investments to be director of transition management marketing for Europe.
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Ex-Siemens Scherkamp sets up own firm
EUROPE - Peter Scherkamp, the former head of finance strategy at the Siemens pension fund, has returned to the pensions advisory business.
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Netherlands’ Rutte proposes pension boards
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch minister for social security, Mark Rutte, has put forward the idea of setting up boards of commissioners at pension funds – though there is to be no change to the PVK.
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Germany’s BVK has smooth asset transition
GERMANY – The 29 billion-euro BVK, or Bayerische Versorgungskammer, says the transition of assets to its new array of external managers has gone very smoothly.
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Morley names consultant relationship manager
UK - Morley Fund Management has named Zoe Mepham as consultant relationship manager in its UK institutional team, a new role.
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German institutions eye tactical asset allocation
GERMANY - German institutional investors are increasingly focusing on the possibilities for tactical asset allocation (TAA) within their portfolios.
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UK says trustees highly dependent on consultants
UK – A new report commissioned by the government’s pensions department says trustees are “highly dependent” on investment consultants.
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Legg Mason names institutional sales director
UK – Legg Mason Investments has appointed Spencer Ahluwalia as director of institutional sales.
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Big names back new Dutch pension periodical
NETHERLANDS – Some of the biggest names in the Dutch pensions industry are backing a new pensions quarterly called Pensioen Bestuur & Management, or Pension Administration & Management.
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OECD seeking private pensions project staff
FRANCE – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is seeking to recruit project staff for private pensions.
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Irish pension contributions not enough - Mercer
IRELAND – “Pension contributions in Ireland are inadequate,” according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
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'Value' consistently outperforms 'growth' - UK study
UK - The first comprehensive study of the ‘value effect’ in the UK equity markets demonstrates that value stocks have outperformed growth stocks for almost 50 years.
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Bank of New York names new Europe chief
EUROPE – The Bank of New York has named Timothy Keaney to take over from Jeffrey Tessler as head of Europe.
