All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 167
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Finland amends earnings-related pensions
FINLAND – Finland has made several amendments to earnings-related pensions in the run up to planned reform in 2005.
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Shropshire awards E62.8m bond mandate to PIMCO
UK – PIMCO says it has won a 44 million-pound (62.8 million-euro) global bond mandate from the 600 million-pound Shropshire County Pension Fund.
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Watson hires ex-Towers Perrin consultant Newman
UK – Watson Wyatt has hired former Towers Perrin consultant Kevin Newman as a senior consultant in its healthcare and risk consulting team.
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Netherlands: OPF market head de Lange leaves
NETHERLANDS – Onno de Lange, financial markets head at the Dutch Corporate Pension Funds Association, the OPF, has left.
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Standard Life develops liability driven approach
UK – Standard Life Investments says it has developed a set of “liability-driven” investment solutions.
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New KAS Bank chief Goebel withdraws
NETHERLANDS - Dutch custody services group KAS Bank says Peter Goebel will not now take over from chairman F.S. von Balluseck.
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RCP rates Allianz asset management units highly
GERMANY – Allianz’s asset management arms DBI and Allianz Dresdner Asset Management have received a “very good” rating from RCP & Partners.
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UK pension funds switch to bonds
UK – Pension funds invested a net three billion pounds (4.3 billion euros) in UK government bonds in the third quarter of 2003, according to new data.
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EAMA and FEFSI set date for merger discussion
EUROPE – The European asset management and investment funds bodies EAMA and FEFSI are to discuss their planned merger at extraordinary general meetings in February.
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Features
'Highly dependent on advisers'
A new report commissioned by the UK government’s pensions department says fund trustees are “highly dependent” on investment consultants. It points out that consultants’ contracts tend not to be based on formal performance assessment. “Investment consultants were involved in many different aspects of investment decision-making, and trustee boards were highly ...
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Features
EU pensions tax issues 'an afternoon's work'
The European occupational pensions tax harmonisation question is just a technical one that could easily be solved, an eminent taxation expert Professor Gerry Dietvorst of Tilburg University told the Awards audience in a keynote address. The problem “can be solved in one afternoon by the ministers of finance”. He said ...
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Features
IMF critical of Belgacom move
The Belgian government’s takeover of the Belgacom pension fund has been criticised by the International Monetary Fund as an “ad hoc” measure which masks the country’s true fiscal position. “The current framework that relies on maintaining balanced budgets has served as a valuable policy communication tool,” the organisation said in ...
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Special Report
Name change for CaringCompany
Nordic socially responsible investment consulting firm CaringCompany has changed its named to GES Investment Services. The company says the aim of the rebranding exercise was to strengthen the profile of the company for an international expansion effort. Managing director Magnus Furugård says the name change would give the firm one ...
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Features
State Street's confidence in new investor index
The State Street Investor Confidence Index is published at 10am Eastern Time in Boston on the second to last Tuesday of each month. Developed by State Street Associates, the bank’s academic partner, the index is “an unbiased quantitative measure of the investment behaviour of thousands of institutional investors”. The index ...
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Features
Consultation at heart of process
“Consultation has been the heart of our proposal,” says Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy. His words provide a valuable insight into the right way to construct workable legislation at the European level. He says the process that bears his name – while not necessarily making disagreements disappear, does at least bring them ...
