All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 26
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German study identifies main obstacles to spread of pensions among SMEs
Government-commissioned study lists chief hurdles but laments lack of data
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NewsSwiss pension fund to review 'fundamentals', real estate investments
Stiftung Abendrot to adjust asset allocation to account for economic developments
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NewsGerman KAG BayernInvest to lose CIO next year
Oliver Schlick informs BayernLB subsidiary he will not renew mandate as board member
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Head of investment at Mercer Switzerland to leave consultancy
Mercer to promote senior investment consultant at Swiss office
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Pan-European pension fund for researchers gains first supporters
Retired researcher hails Resaver project as ‘very positive step’ towards mobility
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NewsGerman institutions diversifying within asset classes – Towers Watson
German pension providers ‘wasting investment potential’, consultancy says
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DeAWM sees scale as vital but has no immediate plans for acquisitions
Asset manager says regulation will shape industry and vice versa
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UBS, Swisscanto disagree on importance of full cost transparency
Schemes have ‘no reason’ to invest in funds that are not fully transparent on costs, says Swisscanto
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NewsForeign equity exposure buoys first-half returns at Swiss schemes
Pension fund association ASIP calculates nearly 5% average return over period
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New industry group predicts 'massive consolidation' in Swiss pensions
Group de Refléxion says more than half of Pensionskassen will disappear over next decade
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NewsAustrian pension funds return nearly 5% over first half of 2014
Pensionskassen membership still increasing slowly, FVPK says
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Swiss asset management costs 'don't paint whole picture', experts warn
Pensionskassen pay 0.42% of managed assets in fees, according to ASIP survey
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NewsGerman institutional interest in SRI continues to grow, survey shows
Investors seeing sustainability as risk management issue rather than ‘marketing tool’
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ASIP criticises Swiss government's 'minor changes' to reform package
Government makes only minor amendments to major Altersvorsorge 2020 plans, ‘risking failure in Parliament’
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NewsCERN's Economou to complement Lombard Odier's risk-based strategy
Approach aims to predict not specific events but rather ‘distribution of events’
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NewsAustrian pensions situation shows 'limits' of IORP Directive – arithmetica
Large parts of pension promises remain unfunded in Austrian listed companies’ books
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NewsNew CEO at Austria's Raiffeisen streamlines company, focuses on SRI
Michael Höllerer, Richard Schnabl succeed Mathias Bauer and Gerhard Aigner at asset manager
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European pensions industry questions purpose, timing of IORP stress tests
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority confirms stress tests to simulate ‘prolonged low-interest-rate environment’
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NewsECB interest rate decision 'like a tax', says Switzerland's Publica
Rising interest rates ‘would be good’ for Swiss schemes despite short-term accounting loss
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Austrian pension fund VBV laments regulatory bias against derivatives
Head of asset management complains of regulatory bias against hedging instruments in wake of ECB rate cut
