All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 93
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F&C tops FairPensions ESG table
[15:00 CEST 15-10] UK – F&C Asset Management tops a ranking of investment managers with the best engagement and transparency scores on environment, social and governance issues.
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ING real estate wins £100m Welsh mandate
[11:00 CEST 15-10] UK – The GBP1.36bn (€1.9bn) Rhondda Cynon Taf council pension fund has awarded a £100m UK property mandate, with possible exposure to other European markets, to ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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Watson Wyatt makes first Nordic acquisition
[16:00 CEST 12-10] SWEDEN – Watson Wyatt is buying Oakbridge Consulting, a Swedish consultancy specialising in HR, to grow its Nordic business.
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Polish pension funds reverse assets decline
[16:00 CEST 12-10] POLAND – Assets in the 15 mandatory second pillar pension funds grew by 2.2% over the last month reaching PLN139.3bn (€37.3bn).
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WHSmith gains £10m from scheme closure
[15:30 CEST 12-10] UK – High street firm WHSmith saw its pension liabilities drop by £10m following the closure of its £770m (€1.1bn) defined benefit scheme, the group has reported.
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Funds need flexibility to compete with Belgium - aba
[15:15 CEST 12-10] GERMANY – Regulations relating to the underfunding of Pensionsfonds are 'too strict' for the retirement vehicles to be competitive in the European market, German insurance experts and pension fund associations have suggested.
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AP4 signs internal currency manager
[15:00 CEST 12-10] SWEDEN – The SEK214bn (€23.5bn) buffer fund AP4 has hired Per Berglund as new currency and fixed income portfolio manager.
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DB/DC contribution spread widens
[16:45 CEST 11-10] UK – While contributions to open defined benefit pension schemes have increased steadily over the last three years, those to defined contributions plans have remained at a similar level, reveal new tables published by National Statistics.
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Rümmeli knew of Swissfirst merger
[16:45 CEST 11-10] SWITZERLAND – A confidentiality agreement has surfaced suggesting Roland Rümmeli, former investment head of the Siemens Switzerland pension fund, had insider knowledge of a merger between Swissfirst and Bellevue.
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Too early for mandatory second pillar - ÖPAG
[16:00 CEST 11-10] AUSTRIA – Introducing mandatory second pillar pensions in Austria is 'unrealistic' at present, according to Johannes Ziegelbecker, director at the €1.9bn multi-employer Pensionskasse ÖPAG.
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Three in four firms top pensions minimum
[13:00 CEST 10-10] SWITZERLAND – More than 75% of employers in Switzerland contribute more to their occupational pension funds than is required by law.
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Swiss Pensionskassen 'suffocated' by regulation
[15:30 CEST 09-10] SWITZERLAND – Increasing regulation on investment limits and higher demands on Pensionskassen regarding pensions benefits guarantees is hindering the growth of pension funds, a father of the Swiss pension system has claimed.
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Hansa equity team defects to build Limestone
[11:00 CEST 09-10] ESTONIA – A total of nine people have left Estonia-based Hansa Investment Funds to set up their own specialist Eastern European and Central Asian asset manager.
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DC will face same problems as DB - Mercer
[16:30 CEST 08-10] UK – A rise in the development of defined contribution (DC) schemes will trigger more government intervention and this will in turn increase costs, consultancy firm Mercer has predicted.
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Resolution trustees OK Friends merger
[16:15 CEST 08-10] UK – Resolution Asset Management got the go ahead for the merger with Friends Provident from its pension fund trustees.
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F&C ready to go fiduciary
[16:30 CEST 05-10] NETHERLANDS – F&C today unveiled details of its anticipated move into fiduciary management for the Dutch pension market.
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Swiss Life mulls sale of Dutch and Belgian firms
[16:15 EST 05-10] EUROPE – Zurich-based life and pension insurer Swiss Life confirmed it might sell its businesses in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Ex-Mercer consultants set up independent trustee firm
[14:00 CEST 05-10] UK – Roy Carr, Bill Rayner, Paul Greenwood and John Hawkins have joined forces to form Foresight Trustees.
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IPE-QUEST: €25m global equity mandate
[16:15 CEST 04-10] GLOBAL – An Australian multi-manager is looking for an active global developed markets manager using IPE-Quest.
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One fifth of funds say 'it's too late' to save DB
[15:45 CEST 04-10] UK – Some 19% of pension funds responded to a question from the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) on what the British government could do to encourage defined benefit pension prevision, by saying it was "too late" to do anything.
