All articles by Danielle Rossingh – Page 3
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Call for rich Dutch pensioners to pay more
NETHERLANDS – Plans to force well-off Dutch pensioners to contribute to the nation’s ballooning state pension costs have been criticised in Parliament.
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Dutch pharmacists sack ING’s “abominable” NN
NETHERLANDS - The E800m pension fund for public pharmacists in the Netherlands has sacked its administrator Nationale Nederlanden and opted instead for common management firm AZL.
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Vodafone pensions chief joins Towers Perrin
UK - Paul Kelly, who heads up the £2.5bn (E3.6bn) pension fund at Vodafone, is leaving the telecommunications giant to join global human resources consultancy Towers Perrin.
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Kas in revamp as pensions become “unaffordable”
NETHERLANDS - Dutch securities services provider Kas Bank is overhauling its 110 million-euro pension fund because pensions are becoming “unaffordable”.
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Fortis Bank appoints new global head equity finance
NETHERLANDS – Dutch bank insurer Fortis Bank has appointed Andrew Stuart as global head equity finance sales in London.
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Northern Trust: ‘bond fundamentals remain strong’
UNITED STATES – Chicago-based banking giant Northern Trust sounded an upbeat note on the bond market, saying fundamental averages of bonds remained “strong”.
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SN says Dutch population ageing rapidly
NETHERLANDS - A quarter of the Dutch population will be over the age of 65 around 2040, Statistics Netherlands has forecast.
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Akzo Nobel feels IFRS impact
NETHERLANDS - Pharmaceutical giant Akzo Nobel is to write down almost €500m in the new year in order to comply with the new international accounting standard.
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UK ban on forced retirement
UK – British workers can no longer be forced to retire before 65, the British government has said.
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Corporate governance index launched
NEW YORK/LONDON – FTSE Group and corporate governance group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) today launched the first phase of the joint FTSE ISS Corporate Governance Index (CGI) Series.
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UK voluntary schemes in 'last chance saloon'
UNITED KINGDOM – The current voluntary approach to pensions in Britain is in the ‘last chance saloon’, a taskforce has warned.
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Dutch civil servants in pension age warning
NETHERLANDS – The official retirement age in the Netherlands should be raised from 65 to 67, Dutch top civil servants have warned.
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Dutch schemes go into bonds – statistics office
NETHERLANDS - Insurance companies and pension funds in the Netherlands have significantly increased their investments in foreign bonds, Statistics Netherlands has said.
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Dutch hairdressers in court win
NETHERLANDS – ANKO, the Dutch hairdressers employers’ organisation, is not obliged to transfer its early retirement scheme (VUT) into a pre-pension, a court in the Netherlands has ruled.
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Aegon raises stake in French mutual
FRANCE – Dutch life assurance giant Aegon has raised its stake in French mutual life assurer La Mondiale Participations to 35% from 20%.
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KPMG critical of Dutch firms’ pension closures
NETHERLANDS – Companies in the Netherlands are too quick to push through closures of their pension funds, accountants at KPMG have said.
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ABP sees 4-5% return in 2005 amid bond shakeout
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, Europe’s biggest pension fund, expects the return on its 160 billion-euro portfolio over 2005 to come in at between four and five percent.
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State Street’s Princeton arm opens Amsterdam office
NETHERLANDS - Princeton Financial Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of financial services giant State Street, has opened an office in Amsterdam.
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Dutch SBA shifts investment strategy (Update)
(Updates with more details) NETHERLANDS – The 11 billion-euro SBA Artsenpensioenfonds (Pension Fund for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists) says it will overhaul its investment strategy.
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Dutch OPF slams “irresponsible” Pensions Bill
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch corporate pension fund association, the OPF, has slammed the government’s timing of the new pensions bill, calling its introduction in 2006 “irresponsible lawmaking”.
