All articles by Carolyn Bandel – Page 66
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MN Services names commercial director
NETHERLANDS – AXA’s Pieter Kiveron is returning to Dutch pension servicing company MN Services as commercial director, it was announced today.
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AMF Pension issues warning on Swedish reform
SWEDEN – The Swedish pension fund AMF Pension argues that the recent pension reform will fail if the government does not put more resources into pension education and information.
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Janus’ Intech arm wins $600m Dutch brief
NETHERLANDS – PGB, the €9bn Dutch pension fund for the printing industry, has awarded Intech a $600m (€459m) US enhanced equity mandate, the firm announced today.
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DNB plans principles-based pensions supervision
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) will ease its supervision on pension funds, banks and insurers in favour of monitoring compliance to principles, rather than strictly regulations.
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Unilever taps Kottmann for hedge fund advice
UK – Unilever has appointed Kottmann Advisory as external consultant to advise its pension fund on hedge fund-of-fund investments, in a move to launch a pooled investment fund in January.
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MN Services named as Cargill fiduciary manager
NETHERLANDS – The €261m corporate pension fund of Dutch export firm Cargill has appointed MN Services as its fiduciary manager, the company announced today.
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Aegon eyes European expansion
EUROPE – Dutch insurer Aegon, the second largest in the Netherlands, is looking to expand its private pensions operations to Romania, the Ukraine, Italy and Germany.
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Greater Manchester reappoints Hymans
UK – The £8.5bn (€12.65bn) Greater Manchester Pension Fund has re-appointed consultancy firm Hymans Robertson as actuary and consultant, it was announced today.
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Dorset reviews Prudential M&G
UK – Prudential M&G has come under review at the €1.432bn (£966m) Dorset County Council pension scheme.
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MEPs’ fund goes into real estate
EUROPE – The €190m (£127.85m) Members of European Parliament Pension Fund is moving away from bonds in favour of euro-zone property to increase the diversification within its portfolio.
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Capital International marketing chief joins Lehman
UK – Capital International’s Olaf John has joined Lehman Brothers Asset Management as its new head of distribution for Germany and Austria.
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European firms see pension risk – survey
GLOBAL – Nearly a quarter of continental European companies believe their pension plans represent a serious risk to the organisation, a survey by Mercer has found.
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Netspar in €3m pensions research push
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pensions research institute Netspar is to subsidise three pension research projects with €3m, the organisation announced today.
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Northamptonshire in £50m hedge fund move
UK – The £1.1bn (€1.6bn) Northamptonshire County Council pension fund is looking for hedge fund managers to invest approximately 4.5% of its portfolio.
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PGGM in loan portfolio deal with ABN Amro
NETHERLANDS – The €80bn Dutch healthcare and social work pension fund PGGM has entered a partnership with ABN AMRO in which both share the risk related to the bank’s loan portfolio.
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Belgium in talks with European, US funds
BELGIUM – The Belgian Association of Pension Institutions (BVPI) is in "serious talks" with European pension funds and one American fund in a further effort to establish Belgium as a pan-European pension fund domicile.
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Dutch institutions’ raw materials appetite grows
EUROPE – Dutch institutional investors such as pension funds have a growing appetite for raw materials, so far they have invested already around €20bn (£13.5bn) in the asset class reports show.
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Dutch VB hails merits of collective schemes
NETHERLANDS – Collective pension funds are cheaper and deliver larger benefits than commercial pensions, according to a report by the VB, the Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds.
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Dumfries fund tenders global equities, FX
UK – The £400m (€594.52m) Dumfries & Galloway Council Pension Fund is looking to put its global equity portfolio into active management again, after axeing Deutsche Asset Management.
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Merrill Lynch pension solutions MD to leave
UK – Anthony Simpson, managing director at Merrill Lynch’s Insurance and Pension Solutions unit, is to leave to join Ramius HVB, IPE has found.
