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Review may clarify VAT on pensions-related services
[16:30 CET 29-11] EUROPE – The European Commission is conducting a review of existing legislation for value-added tax (VAT) on financial services and insurance companies, which might finally determine whether European pension funds should be exempt from paying VAT on outsourced investment services.
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Axa IM modernises its institutional business
[16:00 CET 28-11] UK – Axa Investment Managers has restructured its institutional investment business and divided its team into three operations, in a bid to keep up with changing client needs.
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AGI eyes wider European presence
[14:00 CET 27-11] GERMANY – The major life insurer Allianz is planning to move its European asset management focus away from Germany to France.
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SEB expands into alternatives with purchase
[13:00 CET 26-11] SWEDEN - Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire 100% the shares in Key Asset Management (KAM) for and undisclosed sum.
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AMF tops the ITP pensions bill
[16:15 CET 23-11] SWEDEN - AMF Pension now manages over one-quarter of young Swedish white-collar worker pension accounts, following the opening of the ITP to a wider base of pension providers.
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NTGI brings EM exposure to smaller investors
[16:00 CET 23-11] GLOBAL - Northern Trust Global Investors is extending its emerging markets quant index service to small pension funds, through a pooled quant index fund linked to the MSCI EM index.
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Carnegie EGM votes on new chair
[13:30 CET 22-11] SWEDEN - Stockholm-based Carnegie bank has elected Anders Fällman - chief executive of Carnegie shareholder Invik - as its new chairman, despite recent calls for an independent chairman to see the bank through its current troubles.
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IPE-Quest: Dutch fund seeks fiduciary manager
[16:50 CET 21-11] NETHERLANDS - A Dutch corporate pension fund is searching for a fiduciary investment manager, using IPE-Quest.
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Flexibility deters schemes from fiduciary management - KPMG
[15:00 CET 21-11] NETHERLANDS - Doubts about managers’ ability to deliver flexibility prevent many Dutch pension funds from choosing fiduciary management, claims accountancy advisory firm KPMG.
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'Brave new world' cited for investment
[16:45 CET 20-11] UK – Four ‘winning strategies’ will provide the majority of growth for the investment management industry, according to a new white paper.
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First 130/30 index unveiled
[16:15 CET 20-11] GLOBAL – Standard & Poor’s has launched the first 130/30 strategy index, and begun by linking to activity of S&P 500 stocks.
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Private equity ‘code’ requires more info
[14:00 CET 20-11] UK - Private equity firms in the UK and the companies they own will have to publish more information on the way they do business and the risks they face, according to a new code of conduct unveiled today.
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EC brings microfinance to Europe
[16:45 CET 19-11] EUROPE – The European Commission is seeking to support the development of microfinance initiatives across Europe by implementing a regime to improve access to the non-banking credit scheme.
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PPM chooses new SRI fund
[16:15 CET 19-11] SWEDEN - The SEK1.3bn (€140m) Swedish Premium Pension Authority (PPM) has appointed four new managers for its equity portfolio, and among them is State Street for a socially-responsible investment (SRI) mandate.
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SNS Reaal buys Dutch and Belgian Swiss Life
[16:00 CET 19-11] NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM - The €83bn bank-insurer SNS Reaal is to acquire the Dutch and Belgian businesses of Swiss Life in a €1.5bn (€2.09bn) deal.
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IPE Awards: 130/30 craze is "overplayed"
[15:45 CET 19-11] GLOBAL – The hype around long-short investment products, such as 130/30 strategies, is very much overplayed, delegates at the annual IPE Awards in Vienna were told.
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Asset managers launch to tap market uncertainty
[15:30 CET 19-11] UK – Two new investment houses are entering the UK institutional market with services aimed at the European pension funds arena.
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IPE Awards: ABP/Cordares will bring new ideas to Italy – Frijns
[16:00 CET 16-11] NETHERLANDS/ITALY – The Italian pension fund industry could develop more towards the Dutch model, Jean Frijns, consultant to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has suggested.
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PensCorp secures Telent deal
[14:00 CET 16-11] UK - Edmund Truell's Pension Corporation has finally managed to secure a deal to buy the former Marconi pension fund for £398m (€570m).
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IPE Awards: BNL fund to outsource real estate
[13:30 CET 16-11] ITALY – The €970m pension fund of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is looking to outsource the management of its real estate portfolio.
