All articles by Carolyn Bandel – Page 55
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Aegon taps A&O for administration
[13:00 CEST 15/05] NETHERLANDS – Dutch insurance and pension company Aegon will farm out part of its pension administration business to A&O Fund Management.
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Pensions revolt looms over Shell salaries
[17:03 CEST 14/05] UK/NETHERLANDS - The Pensions Investment Research Consultants (Pirc) has recommended Royal Dutch Shell investors vote against the company's remuneration report at the oil major’s annual meeting on Tuesday in The Hague.
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Horeca unveils its youth website
[17:03 CEST 14/05] NETHERLANDS – Horeca, the €2bn industry-wide fund for the Dutch hotel and catering sector, has launched a website for the large group of 21 to 25-years-olds working in the catering industry.
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Full indexation at ABP
[17:02 CEST 14/05] NETHERLANDS – Giant Dutch pension fund ABP is confident it can let its pension benefits grow in line with wage inflation, the newly-appointed head of ABP Dick Sluimers has said.
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Belgian funds seeks global equity managers
[17:04 CEST 11/05] BELGIUM – Pensioenfonds UZ Gent VZW, the pension fund for employees of the university hospital in Ghent, is looking for two investment managers for a €58m global equity portfolio.
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Canadian teachers’ fund recruiting in London
[17:02 CEST 11/05] GLOBAL – Teachers’ Private Capital, the private equity arm of the giant Canadian pension fund, is looking recruit a total of eight local investment professionals for its newly-launched London office.
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Warwickshire makes foray into alternatives
[17:03 CEST 11/05] UK – Warwickshire County Council pension fund has awarded three mandates which allow the £1bn (€1.4bn) fund to invest in the alternatives market.
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Gwynedd and Haringey go into private equity
[12:52 CEST] UK – Two more UK local authority pension funds have committed to investing in private equity, as both the London Borough of Haringey and the Gwynedd Council pension fund have awarded private equity mandates.
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Institutions drive AUM inflows at AXA
[17:00 CEST] EUROPE – French AXA Group has seen its asset management business’ revenue grow by 22% to €1.15bn, with net inflows of €19bn in the first quarter of this year.
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Cardano nabs two from Hewitt
[16:59] UK – Cardano Risk Management has hired Richard Dowell and Phil Page, both senior consultants at Hewitt Associates, to join its UK team.
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ABP may vote no to Groenink's Shell job
[13:09 CEST] NETHERLANDS – Pension giant ABP is considering voting against the appointment of beleaguered ABN Amro chairman Rijkman Groenink onto the supervisory board of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.
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Director transfers create potential conflict
[17:03 CEST] UK – A conflict of interests could occur if company directors transfer out of defined benefit (DB) schemes ahead of insolvency proceedings, suggests Winterthur Life.
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PGGM contracts new €54m headquarters
[17:01 CEST] NETHERLANDS – The €83bn Dutch pension fund PGGM has commissioned construction firm Ballast Nedam to build its new €54m headquarters.
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Wednesday people roundup
[17:00 CEST] GLOBAL – ABN Amro pension fund, Skandia, Hymans Robertson, Credit Suisse, NTGI, Feri, Insight, Fidelity, Artemis, Zurich, Renaissance.
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Pension schemes shift from fund of funds
[17:00 CEST] EUROPE - Pension funds are increasingly moving away from expensive fund of funds and investing via hybrid private equity plans, according to consultancy firm Watson Wyatt.
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Belgium baits the hook for Dutch pensions
Is the new pensions vehicle that Belgium has designed to encourage European pension schemes to domicile within its borders likely to attract Dutch pension funds? Carolyn Bandel finds out
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Currency overlay ‘flavour of the month’ at Lincolnshire
UK – The £1.1bn (€1.6bn) Lincolnshire County Council Pension Fund is seeking a currency overlay manager for a new £180m mandate.
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Growth in German corporate pensions stagnates
GERMANY – Two out of three German companies offer employees a corporate pension provision, reaching around 78% of the working population, according to a study by German market research firm Psychonomics.
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Job swap at RailPen administrator
UK – RPMI, the third-party administrator set up by the £17bn (€25bn) Railways Pension Scheme, has created a staff exchange programme with consultancy company Shilling Communication.
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NTGI seeks new sales head
NETHERLANDS – Northern Trust Global Investments’ Dutch operation is looking for a new head of institutional asset management sales, following the resignation of Heico de Boer.
