Advisers – Page 69
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Mercer works with Invensure in Danish market
UK/DENMARK – Mercer Investment Consulting (Mercer) and Danish investment consultant Invensure will cooperate to provide manager research and selection services to Danish institutional investors.
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Father hands Swiss consultancy over to son
SWITZERLAND – Michael Brandenberger has formally taken over as chief executive officer of the Swiss consultancy Complementa, a company established by his father in 1984.
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UK civil service scheme reviews delivery options
UK - The civil service is tendering for a pension consultant to review the delivery of its pension arrangements.
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USS appoints ABNAMRO Mellon for €7.6bn custody brief
UK – The UK’s £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has awarded ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services a £5bn global custody, cash management and securities lending solutions mandate.
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Invesco and Black Rock win builders' fund mandates
UK – The £700m (€1.065bn) Building & Civil Engineering Benefits Scheme (B&CE) has awarded Invesco Perpetual with a £70m absolute return UK equity mandate recently.
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Watson Wyatt urges funds to put governance first
UK – Half of UK pension funds governance arrangements do not match investment strategies, consultants Watson Wyatt found in a new survey. It urged pension funds to address this issue to avoid “destruction of value”.
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Engineers tap DC link for pension admin
UK – The Engineering Employers’ Federation Staff Pension Fund (EEF) has appointed DC Link as third-party pension administrator for its multi-employer DC plan.
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Hewitt wins €1bn advisory mandate with Arriva
UK – Hewitt Associates has been appointed global corporate employee benefits adviser to the Arriva group’s pension schemes worth around £750m (€1.1bn).
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US law firm comes to London to advise European investors
EUROPE – US law firm Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll is setting up an office in London in mid-January to advise European institutional investors on litigation against corporates.
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Features
More than just a pressing need to know
Pension funds need more formal skills to deal with the plethora of new developments in the sector – from the flood of new investment products to changes in finance, pension and social legislation. Rachel Fixsen reports
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Making sense of information
In a dramatically changed research landscape, BNY ConvergEx now offers a new service for both independent research firms and money managers. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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Keeping the focus sharp
The main business of Principal Global Investors, a US asset management company with headquarters in Des Moines, is pension funds. Principal manages the assets of 10 of the 25 largest pension funds in the US and more than two thirds of its $180bn (€134bn) assets under management belong to pension ...
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The disruptive power of innovation
In the second of the series, Amin Rajan and Jervis Smith argue that beneath the surface of booming markets fund management is changing irrevocably
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Skilled delegates the way to ensure democracy
Paid pension fund staff clearly need thorough training in the business area relevant to their role. But the decision-making process at a fund involves many others. In Denmark, more pension funds are taking a serious look at the skills of their delegates elected by members, says Claus Skadhauge, head of ...
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Call for think tanks to help benefit systems
Nobel prize winner James Heckman calls for European think tanks to help tackle the issues facing welfare states and their pension systems. Speaking to IPE at the sidelines of the recent European Colloquia in Prague, organised by Pioneer Investments, Heckman said in order to provide pensions to their ageing populations, ...
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Germany’s NAEV ups real estate exposure
REAL ESTATE – Germany’s NAEV, a €7.75bn medical pension fund, will expand investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other real estate securities over the next three years, says Hermann Aukamp, NAEV’s director of real estate.
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EU pension scheme looking for actuary
EUROPE – The European Court of Auditors is looking for an actuary for the annual calculation of liabilities of the unfunded scheme for EU civil servants (PSEO).
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New Nestlé pension arm takes over
EUROPE – The newly created Nestlé Capital Management (NCM) is to take over from Nestlé UK Pension Trust Ltd or Fonds de Pensions Complementaire Nestlé as investment manager for the company’s in-house Robusta funds.
