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Two-thirds outsource admin despite TPR fears
[16:30 CEST 24-07] UK – Over two-thirds of employers with defined benefit (DB) schemes have outsourced their pensions administration to third-party providers, according to Aon Consulting, even as the UK regulator raised concerns about the level of skill among administrators.
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BVI sees trend towards specialisation
[16:45 CEST 23-07] GERMANY – Investors are once again choosing separate providers for portfolio management and fund administration, according to the German investment and asset management federation BVI.
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NewsFalkirk targets passive manager for 'flexibility'
[15:27 CEST 16-07] UK – Falkirk Council Pension Fund is searching for a passive manager to run an equity portfolio worth up to £325m (€410m).
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NewsHaringey splits investment and actuarial advice
[15:46 CEST 11-07] UK – The London Borough of Haringey has split the investment and actuarial services for its £605.2m (€757m) pension fund between Hewitt Associates and Hymans Robertson.
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Kingston adds custodian to search list
[13:20 CEST 10-07] UK – The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is seeking a global custodian to provide services to its local government pension scheme.
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Watson Wyatt unites global quant offerings
[11:30 CEST 02-07] UK – Consultancy firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide is creating a quantitative research and investment systems group in an attempt to combine its various quant offerings into one team.
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Tesco appoints Hewitt as investment adviser
[12:30 CEST 01-07] UK – Tesco Pension scheme has appointed Hewitt Associates to replace Watson Wyatt as its investment adviser.
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Norwegian local authority to build new scheme
[15:00 CEST 26-06] NORWAY – The Norwegian municipality of Ski has issued a tender for the provision of services to set up a new occupational pension scheme.
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Southampton Uni appoints Barnett Waddingham
[16:30 CEST 25-06] UK – The University of Southampton has appointed Barnett Waddingham to provide consultancy services for its pension fund for non-academic staff.
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NewsCardiff seeks actuarial services
[16:45 CEST 23-06] UK – Cardiff County Council has issued a tender for a new provider of actuarial services for the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan local authority pension scheme.
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Aon revamps admin on expected employer calls
[15:45 CEST 20-06] UK - Aon Consulting is attempting to tap into what it believes will be a growing call for outsourced administration when pension reform come into force in 2012, by expanding and relaunching its admin team.
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PADA to start administration search in 2009
[13:30 CEST 19-06] UK – The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) has revealed it intends to issue a tender for scheme administration services for the new system of personal accounts in January 2009 with the contract expected to be awarded by the summer of 2010.
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Parmalat investors launch new European legal action
[16:15 CEST 17-06] EUROPE – Institutional investors are backing a group of 4,000 Parmalat investors who lost money in the Italian dairy firm’s collapse by launching legal action against certain banks and international auditors in the case.
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Hewitt loses Manweb to Mercer
[13:30 CEST 11-06] UK – Trustees of the £800m (€1bn) Manweb Group part of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS), has appointed Mercer to provide investment consulting services to its defined benefit (DB) scheme.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The LDI analogy of pensions and airlines
[13:00 CEST 11-06] EUROPE - The move to liability-driven investment strategies has been a hot topic over the last two years. But discussion with consultants has revealed pension funds are still not adopting the strategy’s full process, even though the break-even rate on 40-year inflation has now hit a new ...
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NewsBaerum seeks help establishing new pension fund
[16:45 CEST 09-06] NORWAY – The Norwegian municipality of Baerum is seeking consultancy services to help in the establishment of a pension fund.
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IMA calls for stricter disclosure by consultants
[14:00 CEST 09-06] UK - All external advisers to pension funds, particularly investment advisers, should be more transparent about conflicts of interest between their commercial interests and their fiduciary duties, the Investment Management Association (IMA) has warned.
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Mn Services plans UK debut
[10:00 CEST 23-05] UK/NETHERLANDS - Mn Services, the Dutch pension provider and fiduciary manager, is in the advanced stages of recruiting an individual to head a UK office slated for opening by the end of the year.
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Hercules and Uniqema go fiduciary
[16:15 CEST 20-05] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch pension funds of Uniqema, a manufacturer of oleochemicals, and the fund of chemicals firm Hercules have tapped AZL as their fiduciary manager.
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8 out of 10 managers fail to add value
[15:00 CEST 20-05] NORDIC/EUROPE - Asset managers working for pension funds do not “add value” to propositions around 80% of the time, according to Watson Wyatt.
