Christina Gwyn
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Cool face of benefits
Education. Education. Education. Well, pensions education to be precise. For New Labour’s renowned election promise is just as applicable in the UK to pensions when it comes to the populous at large. This is the strategy overarching the newly created Pension Service which, as part of the Department of Work ...
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Green Paper passes UK actuary test
UK – The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has welcomed many of the proposals put forward by the UK government in its Green Paper.
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UK pension projections too optimistic, says S&P
UK – Standard and Poor’s today claimed that the UK government has been far too optimistic in its public pensions projections on the back of the publication of the pensions Green Paper yesterday (December 18).
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Factors in global equity success
Experience and a pragmatic approach are the critical factors in boosting relative performance for global equity managers according to the latest analysis of offshore based funds, published by Standard & Poor’s Fund Research. In the current bear market, few global equities fund managers have experienced such a protracted recession. Long ...
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Unilever keeps DB scheme and resumes contributions
UK– Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods manufacturer, has reaffirmed its commitment to its final salary pension scheme in the UK by bringing to an end a decade-long contributions holiday for more than 15,000 of its UK employees.
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Future of industry 'not clear'
With fund management moving out of a period of ‘comfortable consensus’ in asset allocation and portfolio theory, the state of the asset management industry is currently one of ‘shifting tectonic plates’, said David Spina, chairman and CEO of State Street. Addressing the 12th international Fund Forum in Rome, Spina said ...
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DTCC report deals blow to European fund industry
US/EUROPE- The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the world’s largest securities clearance and settlement organization, and PROMETHEE, an independent, Paris-based think tank, have released a study of the main issues regarding the growth of the investment fund industry in Europe.
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Scottish managers shift focus
Scottish asset managers have always had to look beyond their own national market for their business. South of the border has historically been the major market for the managers from Edinburgh and Glasgow, but some have fished successfully further afield, particularly in North America. Now with the European markets opening ...
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Skandia launches global giant
Skandia, Scandinavia’s largest insurance company, has just launched a global mutual fund company, Skandia Global Funds (SGF). SGF hopes to leverage off Skandia’s worldwide businesses to offer a fund family comprising of 20 sub funds, with the intention of increasing up to 30 by the end of the year. SGF ...
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Money flows go property way
Institutions are back in the real estate market. Nothing to do with property, everything to do with the current state of equity markets, says Andrew Jackson, investment director of real estate, Standard Life Investments in Edinburgh. Poor equity performance has led to a reappraisal of real estate by UK institutional ...
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ill health forces Dunn to step down as BGI CEO
US/UK – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) have announced the appointments of Blake Grossman and Andrew Skirton as Co-Global CEOs following the decision of Patricia Dunn to step down as Global CEO.
