All articles by Cecilia Valente – Page 34
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Merchant Navy scheme CEO retires after revamp
UK - Geoffrey Henry, the chief executive of the 2.7 billion-pound (4.03 billion-euro) Merchant Navy Pensions Administration Ltd. Merchant Navy Officers Pensions Fund, MNOPF, has retired.
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Schroders makes hedge fund appointment
UK - Schroders has appointed Russell Investment Group’s Derek Doupe to the new role of head of business development for its fund of hedge funds business.
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BNP Paribas in Italian hedge fund move
ITALY- BNP Paribas Group has partnered with Mediobanca and Mediolanum’s Duemme Hedge to launch a fund of hedge funds targeting small pension funds and individual investors.
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SEI names Harris as France asset mgmt head
FRANCE - SEI Investments has appointed Damian Harris as new head of asset management in France after Jean-Yves Foucat left the company to become an independent consultant.
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AMF Pension returns to real estate
SWEDEN - The 197 billion-crown (21.3 billion-euro) pension provider AMF Pension has made its first investment in real estate in a year, buying three properties from Skanska for more than one billion crowns.
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France’s FRR to launch governance guidelines
FRANCE - The French pensions reserve found, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, is to launch a set of guidelines for corporate governance by the end of the year.
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French reserve fund set to name overlay manager
FRANCE - The 16 billion-euro French reserve fund, the Fonds de réserve pour les retraites, is going to appoint an overlay manager by the end of July, the president of the scheme’s executive board, Francis Mayer, says.
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Swiss mull boost to minimum guaranteed rate
SWITZERLAND - The minimum interest rate of second-pillar pensions might be boosted from 2.25% to 2.75% in 2005 if the suggestion of the Social Security Commission, SGK, of the lower chamber of parliament is accepted.
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Polestar taps Investec for fixed income
UK - The 380 million-pound (568 million-euro) pension scheme of printing firm Polestar Group has awarded Investec Asset management a 140 million-pound fixed income mandate.
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Switzerland votes to lower 2nd-pillar threshold
SWITZERLAND - The Upper House of the Swiss parliament has lowered the eligibility threshold above which workers are required to join the second pillar, from 25,320 francs (15,932 euros) to 18,990.
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Italian opposition sticks by Dini reform
ITALY- The left-wing coalition would not change the Dini pension reform of 1995 if it won the next general election in 2006, a top official at the left-wing Democratici di Sinistra party said.
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French MPs to debate electricity and gas pensions
FRANCE - The French senate is to discuss a draft bill next week that would turn the pay-as-you-go pension schemes of the public gas and electricity companies, GDF and EDF, into a public fund.
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Italy names new president of Mefop pension body
ITALY - The Association for the Development of pension funds, Mefop, whose major stake-holder is the finance ministry, has appointed a new president after Marcello Messori stepped down at the end of his term.
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EFRP says pension directive largely accepted
ITALY- The European Commission's directive on institutions for occupational retirement provision – the pensions directive – is "largely" accepted, a survey by the European Federation for Retirement Provision has found.
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Medical Research Council switches to specialists
UK - Merrill Lynch Investment Management and Deutsche Asset Management have both lost a balanced mandate as the trustees of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Pension Trust decided to switch to specialist briefs.
