All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 191
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Mercer Oliver Wyman targets Nordic growth
SWEDEN – Mercer’s risk management consultancy arm, Mercer Oliver Wyman, is targeting growth in the Nordic region with the opening of an office in Stockholm.
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Aon’s consulting profit falls 9%
US – Profit at Aon’s consulting business declined by nine percent in the second quarter, due to more “lower margin” contracts.
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Top UK companies’ pension deficit “doubles”
UK – The combined pension deficit of the UK’s top companies has more than doubled, to 55 billion pounds (78 billion euros), says actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock.
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Schroders’ institutional sales head joins PIMCO
UK – PIMCO has hired Paul Craven, the former head of UK institutional sales at Schroders.
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Public pension governance “hindered” - study
GLOBAL – Public pension governance is being hindered by not being able to benefit from the lessons learned in the private sector, according to a new study by the World Bank.
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Netherlands’ SCGOP to hold governance symposium
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch corporate governance foundation SCGOP is to hold a symposium on corporate governance later this month.
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Profits up at PGGM-backed property firm Rodamco
NETHERLANDS - Dutch property group Rodamco Europe, which is 24%-owned by PGGM, has posted a 10% rise in first-half net profit to 155 million euros.
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Watson Wyatt’s Urwin uncertain over industry’s future
GLOBAL – The head of Watson Wyatt’s global investment consulting business says there is a sense of “real uncertainty” over the pensions industry – and that maintaining the status quo is not an option.
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New UK pension transfer rules come into force
UK – New regulations covering the calculation of pension transfer values came into force today, the government said.
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Higham opens two new UK offices
UK – Insurance and pension industry consulting firm Higham Group has responded to “significant” growth in demand by opening two new offices.
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SWIP makes E1.4m first-half loss
UK – Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has posted a first-half loss of one million pounds (1.4 million euros), compared to a profit a year ago of six million pounds.
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State Street completes GSS buy in Austria
AUSTRIA – State Street Corp. has completed its purchase of Deutsche Bank’s securities services arm in Austria, the last piece of the jigsaw of a 1.5 billion-dollar acquisition.
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Northern Trust unveils investment-monitoring tool
US - Northern Trust has launched a tool to enable institutional clients monitor the impact of market events on their portfolios.
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Study says derivatives can help pension crisis
GLOBAL – A new academic study says options can be used to make defined benefit pension schemes more sustainable.
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Swiss pension fund returns in “turnaround”
SWITZERLAND – Swiss pension funds returned seven percent in the second quarter, a “turnaround” according to performance measurement firm InterSec.
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Mercer makes four top European appointments
EUROPE - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has made four senior appointments to its international consulting team, including two new hires.
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Deutsche to strengthen global asset management
GERMANY – Deutsche Bank says it wants to strengthen its global asset management business, though it is ruling out acquisitions for now.
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Insight hires Schroders’ European research head
UK - Insight Investment has hired Schroder Investment Management’s head of pan-European research, Nick Anderson, to be its new head of equity research.
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Watson Wyatt looking for acquisitions
UK – Consultancy firm Watson Wyatt says it is looking for acquisition opportunities – and that the outlook for 2004 is for continued growth.
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Law Debenture targets pensions crisis
UK – Trustee and investment trust company Law Debenture Corp. says it sees opportunities arising from the problems in the corporate pensions market.
