All IPE articles in August 2004 (Online) – Page 2
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Icelandic pension funds in $2bn merger talks
ICELAND - Two of Iceland’s leading pension funds, Framsyn and Sjomanna, are in the process of negotiating a merger - the merged entity would have two billion dollars in assets.
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Denmark: Mikkelsen wants higher retirement age
DENMARK – Cabinet minister and top conservative party official Brian Mikkelsen has called for a “more flexible” pension model, which would push up the pension age by five years.
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USS merges with Open University Scheme
UK – The 19 billion-pound (28.7 billion-euro) Universities Superannuation Scheme, the second largest pension fund in the UK, has merged with the Open University Superannuation Scheme for support staff.
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German hedge market could grow to E20bn
GERMANY- The German hedge fund markets, newly open to institutional investors, could grow to 20 billion euros in the next five years, according to consultant Mercer.
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CSAM gains E845m in assets under management
SWITZERLAND – Credit Suisse Asset Management gained 1.3 billion Swiss francs (845 million euros) in new assets under management in the second quarter – compared to a 1.9 billion-franc outflow a year before.
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Europe ageing is “ultimate stress test” – report
EUROPE – Rapid population ageing is the “ultimate stress test” for the European welfare state and is just a business cycle away, a new report states.
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Northern hires SSGA’s de Boer for Europe sales
EUROPE – Northern Trust Global Investments has hired State Street Global Advisors’ Heico de Boer as a sales director for Continental Europe.
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EFRP chief wary of pension regulators – report
EUROPE – The chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision has been quoted saying a “lack of trust” between regulators is more of an obstacle to pan-European pensions than the taxation issue.
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IPE publishes Top 400 European asset managers
EUROPE - IPE has today published its 2004 ranking of the Top 400 asset managers active in the multi trillion-euro European marketplace, with Allianz, Fidelity and State Street Global Advisors retaining their top three places.
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BGI seeing lot of European interest in ETFs
EUROPE – Barclays Global Investors, the largest manager of European pension fund assets, says it is seeing a lot of interest in Europe for exchange-traded funds.
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OECD’s 7-point plan for German pensions
GERMANY – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has put forward a seven-point plan to continue the reform of Germany’s pension system.
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Swiss official says pension age may have to rise
SWITZERLAND – A top Swiss economic official has said demographic developments might mean that the statutory pension age will have to be raised.
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Disparities seen in listed real estate firms’ NAV
EUROPE - Listed property companies in Belgium, the Netherlands and France have significantly lower discounts to net asset value (NAV) compared to other European markets, a study by the European Public Real Estate Association has found.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss corporate seeks asset manager
SWITZERLAND - Investment consultant Kieger is looking for an asset manager for an actively managed short duration portfolio, on behalf of a corporate client.
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VB, EFRP to host EU corporate governance event
EUROPE - The Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds, the VB, has teamed up with the European Federation for Retirement Provision to run a conference on corporate governance in the European Union.
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Italy’s Enel fund tenders entire portfolio
ITALY - The pension fund of the partly privatised state energy and gas producer Enel has tendered its entire portfolio, expected be worth 360 million euros by the end of the year.
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DNB-PVK pension funding row escalates
NETHERLANDS - A bitter spat has erupted over the refinancing of the pension funds of the Dutch central bank and pension regulator the PVK - with the head of the bank branding an MP's comments "tendentious and grievous".
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BGI hires Shellard for European ETF role
EUROPE - Barclays Global Investors has named Nick Shellard as European business development officer for its iShares exchange-traded funds business.
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Italy’s Finnatica hails SWIP institutional deal
ITALY/UK - Scottish Widows Investment partnership and the Italian investment bank Banca Finnat Euroamerica have teamed up for Italy’s institutional market.
