All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 81
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Petroleum Fund seeks head of external mandates
NORWAY – Norges Bank Investment Management, which runs the NOK1.09trn (€134bn) Petroleum Fund for the Norwegian government, is looking to hire a head of operations for external mandates, a new role.
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Dutch OPF names Unilever’s Sibbing as chairman
NETHERLANDS – The OPF, the Dutch Association of Company Pension Funds, has named Loek Sibbing as chairman.
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Directive unclear on cross-border – Commission
EUROPE – The European Commission’s internal market arm has admitted that the directive on occupational pensions is “not clear” about cross-border activities.
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Pension funds pull €1.6bn from Liontrust
UK – Pension funds pulled £1.1bn (€1.6bn) from equity specialist Liontrust Asset Management in the year to the end of March – hit by a move towards hedge funds.
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DWS sees mutual fund role for pensions
EUROPE – Deutsche Bank’s DWS Investments fund arm says there is potential for mutual funds to play a role in private pension provision.
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European personal pension account proposed
EUROPE – Investment fund association EFAMA has proposed a European personal pensions account to ease cross-border portability of pension rights.
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France's FRR returns 9.46% on mandated assets
FRANCE - The French pensions reserve fund, the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, made a return of 9.46% on the assets it had with asset managers in 2004.
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Features
Joined-up thinking
Robin Ellison, the incoming chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), may not be the first UK pension person to lose their bearings in Brussels. But he’s almost certainly the only one to actually get completely lost in the Belgian countryside. It occurred when he was en route ...
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Pensions Management Institute names new CEO
UK - The Pensions Management Institute has named Roger Booth, a former global head of custody at Deutsche Bank, as chief executive.
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Norway sees lower returns amid low bond yields
NORWAY – The Norwegian central bank has flagged up the impact of low bond yields on pension funds – and said that the maximum return can be lowered.
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Trichet says pensions a factor in market growth
EUROPE – European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet has identified higher demand for pensions as one of the factors behind the growth of financial markets.
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Sweden presents occupational pensions bill
SWEDEN - The Swedish government was today set to present a bill to parliament to implement the EU directive on occupational pensions.
