All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 89
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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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IPE Awards: "Diversification may turn to contagion" warning (Updated)
[13:00 CET 16-11] GLOBAL - Increasing globalisation means correlations between markets and returns of asset classes change frequently, Sudhir Rajkumar, head of the Pension Investment Partnership at the World Bank, has warned.
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IPE Awards: Fiduciary managers make market 'fairer' – Frijns
[16:30 CET 15-11] EUROPE – Smaller pension funds will gain easier access to alternative asset classes thanks to fiduciary managers, Jean Frijns, consultant to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has suggested.
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Signing up to ESG is not enough - UNPRI
[15:00 CET 15-11] GLOBAL – The United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) should filter through a signatory company and right through to the companies invested in, James Gifford, executive director at the UNPRI has urged.
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£718m fund extends BNY Mellon brief
[15:45 CET 14-11] UK – The £718m (€1bn) local authority pension fund of the London Borough of Islington has renewed a global custody mandate with Bank of New York Mellon for another two years.
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Pan-Euro funds should not be competitive - Gabellieri
[15:30 CET 14-11] EUROPE – There should be one EU legal framework with national varieties instead of various European countries rivaling for the best location to domicile pan-European pension funds, suggests Bruno Gabellieri, secretary general of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection (AEIP).
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Markets feed further DB surplus growth – PPF
[14:00 CET 14-11] UK – The UK's defined benefit pension funds had a collective surplus of around £53bn (€75bn) surplus at the end of October, the most recent index published by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has revealed.
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IPE-QUEST: $90m Swiss equity mandate
[13:00 CET 14-11] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss institutional investor is looking for a global sustainable equity manager via IPE-Quest.
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"Too early" for IORP review - Verhaegen
[12:30 CET 14-11] EUROPE – Plans by the European Commission to review the IORP pensions directive next spring were "not a sign of good regulatory governance" as the full implementation was only finalised this summer, Chris Verhaegen, secretary-general of the European Federation of Retirement Provision (EFRP) has told IPE.
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Romanians rush into second pillar
ROMANIA – Over half of the Romanian workforce has already signed up for the new mandatory second-pillar pension system, including many for whom joining is not mandatory.
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Trustees 'lack objectivity' in judging sponsors
[16:00 CET 13-11] UK – Too few trustees doubt their company's ability to continue sponsoring the pension scheme, consultancy firm Hewitt has suggested.
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Experts criticise social tax exemption
[16:15 CET 12-11] GERMANY – Finance experts fear there could be negative effects from a move by the German government to ensure money transferred to pension funds, as part of a person's salary, will remain exempt from social tax indefinitely.
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Pensionskassen growth stagnates - GDV
[11:00 CET 09-11] GERMANY – Germans remain cautious about investing money long-term despite good economic development, the association of German insurers (GDV) has found.
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NAPF calls for fresh Myners Review
[16:45 CET 08-11] UK - The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has suggested there should now be a complete review of the pensions principles set up by former head of Gartmore fund managers, Paul Myners, in 2001.
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Let funds decide on conversion rate – OECD
[11:00 CET 08-11] SWITZERLAND – The rate with which accrued pension assets are converted into benefit payments should not be decided by politicians, said the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
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NPRF seeks managers to double EM exposure
[16:30 CET 07-11] IRELAND – The €21.3bn National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) is tendering €600m in emerging markets equities.
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Norwegian fund excludes British company
[16:15 CET 07-11] NORWAY – The NOK2trn (€250bn) Norwegian government pension fund has excluded UK mining and metal company Vedanta Resources from its investment universe because of human rights violations and for causing environmental damage.
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Cardano replaces Hewitt at £3bn pension fund
[16:00 CET 07-11] UK – The newly-opened London office of Rotterdam-based consultant Cardano has won its first mandate, from the AstraZeneca pension fund.
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IPE-QUEST: $50m in Swiss fund equity investments (amended)
[11:00 CET 07-11] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss corporate pension fund is looking for managers for one $50m (€34.4m) global equity mandate via IPE-Quest. (amends mandate size)
