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Mercer shakes up investment consulting
[11:03 CEST 19-05] GLOBAL – Consulting firm Mercer has just announced a series of major changes to its senior investment consulting arm, including the appointment of Andrew Kirton as global head of the operation.
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Watson Wyatt calls on pension funds to review focus
[14:00 CEST 15-05] GLOBAL - Pension funds should reduce their external investment management costs by 10 basis points and use this saving to increase their internal resources, consulting firm Watson Wyatt has suggested.
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Montae ventures into investment consulting
[11:00 CEST 14-05] NETHERLANDS – Montae, the Dutch pensions consulting and law firm, is rolling out a new investment consulting offering.
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PADA to bring in personal account advisers
[16:40 CEST 12-05] UK – The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) has begun search for three groups of specialist advisers to support the implementation of the personal accounts pension regime, due to begin in 2012.
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Credit crunch boosts buyout market
[15:00 CEST 12-05] UK – The pensions buyout market reached £2.2bn (€2.77bn) in the first quarter of 2008, driven by a reduction in price resulting from increased competition and the effects of the credit crunch, Aon Consulting has revealed.
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FeaturesDemystifying the outlook
The investment consultancy business is undergoing changes. Murat Ünal examines the landscape
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Special ReportPolling the placement agents
Iain Morse examines the role of placement agents in the private equity market
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Varying value of the same promise
Charles Rodgers, a London-based pensions consultant at Watson Wyatt, has a problem: the long-awaited International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) due process discussion document on pensions accounting. His issue? The board’s new contribution-based promise definition and its proposal that the world’s bean counters should account for pension promises according to how ...
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FeaturesInstitutions focus on risk
German investment managers are seeing increasing demand for risk management services, including high reporting standards. And this has heightened in the wake of the credit crunch. Barbara Ottawa asked asset managers for their views on current thinking and on the outlook and trends in institutional business
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FeaturesCredit crunch chickens come home to roost
Georg Inderst gives an overview of the effects of the sub-prime generated credit crunch on pension funds
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NewsClwyd seeks external investment advisers
[16:30 CEST 30-04] UK – Flintshire County Council is looking to appoint a number of providers of external investment advisory services for the £889m (€1.1bn) Clwyd pension fund.
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22% of Irish schemes have reduced benefits – Mercer
[12:30 CEST 28-04] IRELAND – Around 22% of Irish defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have modified their benefits in the last two years, and have generally reduced future benefits in some form, according to consultancy firm Mercer.
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Consultants warn against DC over-regulation
[12:00 CEST 28-04] UK – Consultants have warned against over-regulation of defined contribution (DC) schemes, following criticism of The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) existing approach by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.
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TIAA-CREF mulls European co-operation
[14:00 CEST 25-04] GLOBAL – The New York-based Teachers Insurance and Annuities Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), the second largest retirement plan in the US with assets of $435bn, is considering co-operating with European pension funds.
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Surrey to seek advice as WW leaves LA market
[11:00 CEST 18-04] UK – Surrey County Council is expected to issue a tender for a new investment adviser in the next few months after Watson Wyatt confirmed it is withdrawing from the local authority pension fund investment consultancy market.
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NewsShoe and leather fund goes fiduciary
[16:30 CEST 11-04] NETHERLANDS – The €250m Dutch industry wide pension fund for the shoe and leather industry, Bpf PSL, has appointed Blue Sky Group as its fiduciary manager.
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KPI for consultants could help trustee governance
[12:00 CEST 09-04] IRELAND – The introduction of key performance indicators (KPI) to measure consultants' manager evaluation and monitoring processes, could be a useful tool for trustees, as basing investment decisions on performance data alone is a "flawed" process, experts have warned.
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German pensions "suffer advice gap"
[14:00 CEST 07-04] GERMANY – The German funded pension system is suffering from a lack of quality advice provision for individuals, Prof Bert Rürup told today’s Handelsblatt occupational pensions conference in Berlin.
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State Street and Hewitt retain pension contracts
[16:00 CEST 03-04] UK - State Street Corporation has been retained as custodian to BP’s £14bn (€17.87bn) UK pension fund while Hewitt has been asked to extend its contract with the UK civil service pension fund.
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FeaturesMaking sense of an uncertain future
New mortality research conducted for the UK Actuarial Profession should help guide future assumptions, argues Dave Grimshaw
