All articles by Cecilia Valente – Page 38
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Luxembourg and Ireland have “edge” on pensions pooling - consultant
EUROPE - Luxemburg and Ireland have “an edge” with double taxation treaties, the legislation for pensions investment pooling vehicles, according to a leading pension consultant.
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Germany: Aba wants less pension “burden” on firms
GERMANY- The German corporate pension association, Aba or Arbeitsgemeinshcaft fuer Betriebliche Alterversorgung called for the government not to “burden” employers who offer contributions to pension schemes.
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BNP Paribas hires Summonte for German custody sales
GERMANY- BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Deutsche Bank ‘s Angela Summonte as senior sales manager to its International Investor Services’, IIS, sales desk.
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UK’s Durham appoints actuary, seeks advisers
UK - The 850 million-pound (1.23 billion-euros) Durham County Council Pension Fund has appointed Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow as scheme actuary and says it is looking for advisers.
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Netherlands’ SCGOP says pension funds must adapt
NETHERLANDS - Pension funds will have to “adapt” to benefit from new corporate governance regulations, says the head of the Netherlands’ Corporate Governance Research Foundation for Pension Funds, or SCGOP.
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Ambachtsheer slams pension fund governance
NETHERLANDS – A leading pension fund analyst, Keith Ambachtsheer, has slammed pension fund governance as “poor”.
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ABN Amro Mellon's Depotbank arm gains assets
NETHERLANDS - ABN Amro Mellon’s Depotbank arm in Germany has won two billion euros in business since its launch in January, the head of German operations said.
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Dispute over size of French SRI market
FRANCE – A dispute has emerged over the size of the French SRI market, with estimates that the market is worth up to 4.5 billion euros criticised as “Alice in Wonderland”.
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Lancashire awards custody amid wider revamp
UK - The 2.4 billion-pound (3.56 billion-euro) Lancashire County Council Pension Fund says it will appoint ABN Amro Mellon as its custodian.
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Kredietbank institutional sales head leaves
LUXEMBOURG - Private bank Kredietbank Luxembourg says its head of institutional sales, Jean-Luc Neyens, has left the company.
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Italian pension reform a “revolution” - Hewitt
ITALY- The intended Italian pension reform is a “revolution” converting the pension market away from ‘communism’ to ‘liberalism’ says Hewitt Associates’ Italian market manager.
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Railpen names Hitchen as chief executive
UK - The 13.6 billion pound (19.5 billion-euro) Railways Pension Trustee Company, Railpen, has confirmed that Chris Hitchen will take over as chief executive from Peter Murray, who is retiring.
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Swiss voters reject pension benefit cut plan
SWITZERLAND - Parliament-backed plans to cut benefits to the first-pillar pension provisions have been halted after 67.9% of voters rejected proposals cuts to pensions and the raising of women’s pension age.
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Italy’s Laborfonds taps Franklin Templeton, SGAM
ITALY- The 215 million-euro Laborfonds says it has awarded Franklin Templeton Investments and Societe Generale Asset Management an initial 10 million euros each, in global equities and bonds respectively.
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Italy's Desio taps ABN Amro Mellon for custody
ITALY- Banco Desio has awarded ABN Amro Mellon a non-domestic equities and bonds custody mandate worth in the region of one billion euros.
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UK actuaries want occupational pension enquiry
UK - The president of the Faculty of Actuaries has called for the National Association of Pension Funds to make a “Lord Penrose-like enquiry” into occupational pensions.
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Institutions move away from risk - reports
UK – Institutional investors have moved away from risk, according to new reports from Merrill Lynch and State Street.
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NAPF Conference: trustees getting skilled
UK - Trustees are getting more skilled and educated, an Oxford University professor said at the annual conference of the National Association of Pension Funds.
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Sweden’s AMF unveils two new funds
SWEDEN - AMF Pension Fondforvaltning, the mutual fund unit of life insurer AMF, has launched two new funds.
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NAPF Conference: strike threat over pensions
UK – The head of the main trade union body in the UK has issued a warning that workers are “prepared to take action” over pension scheme closures.
