All articles by Cecilia Valente – Page 27
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UK's PPF looking for five non-exec directors
UK - The Pension Protection Fund is looking for three to five non-executive directors to assist executives with “key decisions” says chairman Lawrence Churchill.
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UK protection fund: weaker schemes to pay most
UK - Lawrence Churchill, chairman of the new Pension Protection Fund has said that schemes more likely to turn to the PPF for help will contribute the most.
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RMB in Austrian institutional tie-up
AUSTRIA - Alternative investments specialist Absolute Return Consulting GmbH has started a partnership with London-based RMB International to represent the asset manager on the Austrian institutional market.
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Skandia, Commerzbank in German pension pact
GERMANY- Skandia Portfolio Management GmbH, the Berlin-based arm of the Swedish insurer, has started a partnership with the Commerzbank’s European Bank for Fund Services GmbH, or ebase, to reinforce its position in the German institutional market.
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Italy: regions on ‘front line’ of pension reform
ITALY- Regions must prepare to be on ‘the front line’ to face the consequences of pensioner poverty brought about by welfare reforms, says one of the architects of the pension fund for the semi-autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige.
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Austrian pensionskassen return 3.28% - OeKB
AUSTRIA - Austrian pensionskassen returned an average of 3.28% in the first half of 2004, according to the Austrian Control Bank (OeKB).
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Interest rates rattle Swiss funds, report says
SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension funds’ confidence has slumped, bashed by the latest developments in global interest rates, says asset manager Bearbull Gestion Institutionelle.
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UK’s Dorset allocates to hedge funds in revamp
UK - The 900 million-pound (1.3 billion-euro) Dorset County Pension Fund has allocated five percent of its portfolio to hedge funds investments as part of a review of investment strategy.
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Training could aid EU pension crisis - institute
EUROPE – Life-long training could help solve the European Union’s pension problem, the European Institute of Public Administration says.
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Academic warns of Italian pensioner poverty
ITALY- Italian workers face the risk of relative poverty if they do not save for their pensions, says the president of the National Commission for the Research on Social Exclusion.
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OppenheimerFunds hires from BGI for Europe push
UK - US investment manager OppenheimerFunds Inc. has hired Adrian Gordon from Barclays Global Investors to spearhead a push into the European institutional market.
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Pimco says it hires Schroders consultant head
UK - Fixed-income asset manager Pimco has hired Schroders’ Anne Fairchild-Jones as head of marketing communications in its London office- a new position.
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Railpen stresses human face of ALM
UK - Stephen Lowe, head of asset strategy at Railpen Investments called for the human component to be considered when pension funds set their asset liability models.
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Mercer says Austrian reform disappointing
AUSTRIA - Kurt Bednar, managing director of Mercer Austria, has called for finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser to show more courage in reforming the pension fund law, or PKG.
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Irish reserve fund taps Arcadian for small-caps
IRELAND - The 10.5 billion-euro Irish National Pension Reserve Fund has awarded Arcadian Asset Management a small-cap mandate worth one percent of the fund.
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Mercer advises funds not to follow fashion
UK – Pension funds should not give in to what is ‘in vogue’ but concentrate instead on why they are investing, says a senior investment consultant at Mercer.
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Leave allocation to managers – Hewitt
UK - Trustees could leave asset allocation to asset managers in order to motivate them to create wealth for the pension fund, says a consultant at Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow.
