Advisers – Page 80
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Features
Specialists respond to legislative change
Clients are moving towards specialist consultants as the UK pensions industry adopts a more flexible savings culture, writes Rachel Fixsen
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FTK casts a shadow over custody
Pension funds are having to review the entire custody area in anticipation of the new financial arrangements, reports Heather Mackenzie
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JP Morgan ousts Wellington at Merseyside
UK - The £3.8bn (€5.5bn) Merseyside Pension Fund has appointed JP Morgan Asset Management for its newly created £100m European (ex-UK) equities mandate.
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FERI Institutional Advisors names four new MDs
GERMANY – German consultant FERI Institutional Advisors has appointed four new managing directors while confirming that Hartmut Leser, another MD, is to leave at the end of September.
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Hewitt’s Paris head Puche leaves
FRANCE – Vincent Puche, head of Hewitt Associates’ Paris investment practice, has left the firm (adds investment).
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Fiduciary management ‘needs wider scope’
NETHERLANDS – The concept of fiduciary management needs a wider interpretation than just asset management, says pensions and investment manager Compendeon.
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DC to take off in Germany, Watson Wyatt says
GERMANY – Defined contribution pension plans are set to boom in Germany, according to international consultant Watson Wyatt.
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Netherlands: widen levensloop, say experts
NETHERLANDS - The tax-friendly ‘levensloop’, or life course, scheme should be changed into a fiscal scheme for loss of income, says a group of six experts including professor Lans Bovenberg of pensions platform Netspar.
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PSolve under review at Havering
UK – PSolve Investment Consultants is facing a review at the £340m (€503m) London Borough of Havering Pension Fund, which is looking for a new investment advisor.
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Pension professor leaves Watson Wyatt board
GLOBAL - Pensions academic John Shoven is to leave the board of consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
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Nottinghamshire scheme makes real estate buy
UK – The £1.6bn (€2.6bn) Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund has bought an office building in the southern English town of Sutton for £13.33m.
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IBM trustee tells of battles with company
EUROPE – A former member-nominated trustee at IBM’s £4.9bn (€7.2bn) UK pension fund says he feels the computer giant made his role more difficult through a lack of information.
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Denmark’s Energinet tenders pension services
DENMARK – State-owned Danish utilities company Energinet.dk has tendered group pension services.
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Clywd scheme goes unconstrained
UK – The £800m (€1.2bn) Flintshire County Council Clwyd Pension Fund has tendered a total of £145m in unconstrained fixed income and equities.
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Aon buys Swedish pensions firm
SWEDEN - Aon Consulting has bought Swedish pension management firm Förmånsoptimering for an undisclosed sum.
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Citigroup sets up pension solutions team
EUROPE - Citigroup has set up a European insurance and pensions structured solutions group in London under Wiltrud Heiss.
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German institutions ‘still hedge fund sceptics’
GERMANY – German institutional investors are still very reluctant to put money into hedge funds, despite the 2004 liberalisation of the market, says FERI Institutional Advisors.
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Essex pension fund goes unconstrained
UK – The £2.1bn (€3.1bn) Essex County Council Pension Fund is looking to appoint a specialist unconstrained global equity manager for a £140m mandate.
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Publica dragged into insider trading scandal
SWITZERLAND – Publica, one of Switzerland’s largest pension funds, is the latest scheme to become embroiled in the Swissfirst insider trading scandal.
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Hymans facing review at Cornwall
UK - Cornwall County Council has tendered actuarial services for its £980m (€1.4bn) pension fund.
