All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 157
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Irish regulator Maher joins UK accounting board
IRELAND/UK – Anne Maher, the head of the Irish pensions regulator, has been appointed to the UK’s Professional Oversight Board for Accountancy.
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M&G sees increased allocation to fixed income
UK – M&G won 1.4 billion pounds (2.1 billion euros) in fixed income mandates from institutional business, driven by increased asset allocation by pension funds.
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Blue Sky awards $200m enhanced brief to Atlantic
NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, which manages around eight billion euros of the pension assets of airline KLM, has awarded 200 million dollars in enhanced equities to Atlantic Asset Management.
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Former Unilever pension chief joins SCGOP
NETHERLANDS – The former managing director of the 2.9 billion-euro Unilever Progress pension fund, Jos Van Niekerk, has taken over as director of the Dutch corporate governance foundation SCGOP.
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UK’s PIRC wants exec pensions “mess” untangled
UK – The head of corporate governance firm Pensions Investment Research Consultants has called for the “mess” surrounding the disclosure of executives’ pension entitlements to be untangled.
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New IPE Real Estate publication launched
GLOBAL – IPE has launched a new quarterly publication, IPE Real Estate, to accompany the main monthly magazine.
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UK funds move to absolute returns - Watson Wyatt
UK – Watson Wyatt says that its UK pension fund clients awarded more than double the number of absolute return mandates in 2003 than in 2002.
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Jardine Lloyd closes DB scheme to new entrants
UK – Jardine Lloyd Thompson is to close its UK defined benefit pension scheme to new entrants and make a one-off payment of 50 million pounds (74 million euros) to the scheme.
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Study takes new Codan scheme as inspiration
DENMARK – Codan’s new Tidspension, or Time Pension, has won the backing of an academic study - while the life insurer says the product’s growth has been “explosive”.
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Fidelity hires ex-Henderson client director Pine
UK – Fidelity Investments has hired Julie Pine, a former client director at Henderson Global Investments.
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Scandinavian fund tenders EM debt via IPE-Quest
SCANDINAVIA – A Scandinavian pension fund has tendered up to 130 million euros in emerging market debt via IPE-Quest.
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EU consults on bosses’ pay and pensions
EUROPE – The European Commission wants institutional shareholders to be involved in a consultation on corporate directors’ pay and pensions.
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CalPERS beats benchmark by 200 basis points
US – The largest US pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, returned 23.3% last year and beat its benchmark by 200 basis points.
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Threadneedle’s multi-manager Attica changes name
UK – Threadneedle Asset Management’s multi-manager arm Attica has changed its name to MM.
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ING says institutional AUM slip 2.6%
NETHERLANDS – ING’s institutional assets under management have slipped 2.6% - although total assets under management have risen by 3.1%.
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Fidelity’s DC business development head leaves
UK – Tim Banks, head of defined contribution business development at Fidelity, is to leave the company.
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DeAM names UK business section heads
UK – Deutsche Asset Management, the second largest manager of European pension assets, has named the heads of its seven new “business streams”.
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Commerzbank hails pension deal with unions
GERMANY – Commerzbank has hailed as “good and sound” its agreement with unions that will see a unified pension plan in place by the start of next year.
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VB criticises government stance on Staatsen
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds, the VB, has criticised the government’s backing of the Staatsen Commission review of pension funds’ commercial activities.
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Sweden’s AP1 returns 16.5% in 2003
SWEDEN – AP1 returned 16.5% in 2003, taking its capital to 139.3 billion crowns (15.2 billion euros) as at the end of December.
