All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 99
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Real estate boosts ING's assets
[16:50 CEST 08-08] GLOBAL – Dutch banking group ING saw the assets under management in its real estate division increase by 37% to €74.7bn over the last year.
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Equities and alternatives boost Varma returns
[14:30 CEST 07-08] FINLAND – The largest Finish pension insurer Varma has posted a 6% return on investments for the first half of this year.
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F&C stems net outflows to £1.6bn
[15:30 CEST 06-08] EUROPE – A 24% rise in inflows helped F&C Asset Management reduce a £3.3bn (€4.9bn) outflow of institutional money in the first six months to £1.6bn.
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One in five chose pension fund for TFR
[13:30 CEST 06-08] ITALY – Eight out of 10 Italian workers have explicitly made a choice on where to put their severance pay (trattamente di fine rapporto, TFR) while only 10-15% used the 'silent assent' clause, figures released by the labour ministry reveal.
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Irish pension funds 'too patriotic', say consultants
[14:00 CEST 03-08] IRELAND – Irish managed pension funds generated a negative return of 3% for the month of July, mainly because of their high exposure to Irish equities, according to consultants.
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CSAM assets rise by a fifth
[15:00 CEST 02-08] GLOBAL – Credit Suisse Asset Management reported increases in assets under management and pre-tax profit for the first half of 2007 despite continued outflows in equity products.
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IPE-QUEST: Equity mandates for the Middle East
[13:00 CEST 02-08] UK – Investors in the Middle East are looking for pan-European, global, US and emerging market equity managers using IPE-Quest.
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Active managers see 'fee cake' crumble - IMA
[16:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The continuing trend among pension funds towards separating index tracking from absolute returns is a challenge for some active managers the UK's Investment Management Association (IMA) found.
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PwC to advise government on pensions
[14:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The UK government has awarded the contract for the review of civil servants pension delivery.
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Dorset joins currency trend
[13:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The £1.4bn (€95m) Dorset County Council Pension Fund is looking for an active currency manager.
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Estonia needs to change pension indexation - IMF
ESTONIA – Current legal practices regarding the indexation of pension benefits is the major factor behind the destabilization of Estonian finances, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found.
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Romania introduces pension fund risk profile
ROMANIA – Pension funds in the recently-created Romanian second pillar will be labelled "high risk level" if they have less than 65% invested in low-risk bonds.
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Data important in risk-based supervision - IOPS
[13:00 CEST 31-07] GLOBAL – One of the biggest challenges in moving to a risk-based supervision of pension funds is data collection, the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) has found.
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TSC cautions over private equity in market downturn
[16:30 CEST 30-07] UK – The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) is calling on the Bank of England to look at the impact of economic downturns on the increasing number of leveraged buyouts.
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Waltham Forest completes overhaul
[15:00 CEST 30-07] UK – The £485m (€719.6m) London Borough of Waltham Forest pension fund has appointed six new managers.
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FRR awards three more passive mandates
[14:30 CEST 30-07] FRANCE – The €33.4bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) appointed the final three managers to its newly-created passive portfolio.
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Hungary to cut pension benefits
[15:00 CEST 27-07] HUNGARY – IMF staff have welcome steps taken by the Hungarian government to tighten access to disability pension and the early retirement programme.
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Irish SRI funds have "solid performance" – Mercer
[14:30 CEST 27-07] IRELAND – Ethically-managed funds returned 3% for the first half of 2007 compared to 5.6% for equity-only funds.
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Italian coalition too weak for pension reform – S&P
[16:30 CEST 26-07] ITALY – Recent pension reforms agreed in Italy have failed to render the country's fiscal outlook more sustainable, Standard & Poor has found.
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Hermes CEO leaves for Nuveen
[15:39 CEST 26-07] UK – Mark Anson is to step down as chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management at the end of August after just 18 months at the investment manager.
