All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 95
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Trustee code of practice ignored, claims OPA
[15:30 CEST 20-09] UK – Companies will not fulfil the Pensions Regulator's Code of Practice on principles of 'proportionality, fairness and transparency' in trustee nomination in time for the October deadline, the Occupational Pensioners’ Alliance (OPA) has claimed.
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Deregulation unlikely, NAPF seminar told
[11:00 CEST 20-09] UK – Minimising regulatory requirements for pension funds would be a good thing to do but it is unlikely to happen, delegates at a National Association of Pension Fund (NAPF) seminar agreed.
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'Storm brewing' says French analyst
[16:45 CEST 19-09] FRANCE – President Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement of changes to the special pension arrangements for certain categories public employees will trigger strikes, analyst Phillip Silitschanu from the Aite Group told IPE.
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Parliamentary fund tenders admin
[11:00 CEST 19-09] UK – Trustees of the £280m (€414m) House of Commons' Parliamentary Contributory pension fund are seeking a new pensions administrator.
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Swisscanto reports 13.6% AUM rise
[16:15 CEST 18-09] SWITZERLAND – Asset manager and consultant Swisscanto saw its assets managed for institutional clients climb 13.6% to CHF21.7bn (€13bn) over the last year.
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Small firm employees ignore company pensions
[16:00 CEST 18-09] UK – Only one in four small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) say all eligible employers are making use of pension arrangements.
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Swiss pension reaches full funding
[14:30 CEST 18-09] SWITZERLAND – The CHF1.66bn (€1bn) pension fund of the Schaffhausen canton has reached a funding level of 100.21%.
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Aegon pension fund is worst performer (updated)
[16:45 CEST 17-09] POLAND – The second-pillar pension fund Ergo Hestia administered by Aegon's Polish subsidiary saw its assets reduced by 2.4% in August.
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CEIOPS gets new secretary general
[15:45 CEST 17-09] EUROPE – Alberto Corinti has resigned as secretary-general of the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS).
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Carbon emission equity index launched
[15:00 CEST 17-09] GLOBAL – ECPI has created a Carbon Winners Equity Index which tracks the performance of companies in the electricity, steel manufacturing and oil & gas industry.
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Pension trace service launched
[14:33 CEST 14-09] UK – The British government's Pension Service body is offering a free service to assist people to trace various pension benefits they might have accrued at previous places of employment.
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Swansea goes specialist
[14:00 CEST 14-09] UK – The £900m (€1.3bn) City and County of Swansea pension fund is looking for up to 12 specialist managers, including hedge fund and private equity specialists, to manage some of its assets.
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Vienna unveils tradable Ukrainian index
[14:45 CEST 14/09] AUSTRIA/UKRAINE – The Vienna Stock Exchange (VSE) has unveiled the latest addition to its family of eastern European indices, the Ukrainian Traded Index (UTX).
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Hertfordshire issues global equities tender
[13:00 CEST 13-09] UK – The £2bn (€3bn) Hertfordshire County Council pension fund is seeking to change its equity weighting by issuing a new £200m global mandate tender.
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Large UK firms anger union over pensions
[13:00 CEST 13-09] UK – BAA and Royal Mail have angered unions with planned changes to their respective retirement provisions.
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Pensions Board issues checklist
[13:00 CEST 13-09] IRELAND – The Pensions Board, the Irish pensions regulator, has published checklists for employers and trustees detailing their obligations to make pensions information available to employees and to inform the Pensions Board that such an arrangement has been made.
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Large managers disappoint French funds
[16:30 CEST 12-09] FRANCE – Large asset management companies lost credibility with French pension funds during the sub-prime lending crisis, according to a study.
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Aviva buys Romanian asset manager
ROMANIA – UK-based life and pension service provider Aviva is set to take over Romanian asset manager Certinvest.
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UK schemes' surplus halved
[11:30 CEST 12-09] UK – UK pension funds saw their aggregated surplus melt from £51bn (€75bn) to £26.8bn amid market turbulences in August, according to the latest Pension Protection Fund (PPF) Index.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss bond and equity mandates
[11:00 CEST 12-09] SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension funds are looking for investment managers to handle high yield bond and global equity mandates, using IPE-Quest.
