All articles by Danielle Rossingh – Page 4
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Skandia’s Nammack sets up own firm
SWEDEN - Kristian Nammack, the head of external asset management at Stockholm-based Skandia Liv Kapitalförvaltning, has left the group to set up his own company.
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S&P in Russian equity index move
RUSSIA - RTS Stock Exchange (RTS), the Moscow-based stock exchange, and Standard & Poor’s are to develop a “new generation” of Russian equity indices.
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TKP Pensioen takes over E13m Brunner Mond scheme
NETHERLANDS – TKP Investments BV, a subsidiary of the Dutch life insurer giant Aegon, is to manage the assets of the €13m Stichting Pensioenfonds Brunner Mond.
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Dutch market regulator eyes pension fund role
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch Ministry of Finance is on a collision course with the ministry of Social Affairs over a possible extension of the regulatory powers of its stock market watchdog AFM to cover pension funds.
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Shell pension proposals anger unions
NETHERLANDS - Trade unions in the Netherlands have responded furiously to proposals by oil giant Shell to increase the pension age for its 11,000 Dutch workers from 60 to 65.
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Dutch employers group warns over pre-pensions
NETHERLANDS – Plans to repair pre-pension in the Netherlands could lead to a ‘pension catastrophe’ a leading employers’ association has warned.
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SEI names Benelux institutional sales head
NETHERLANDS – SEI Investments, provider of asset management and investment technology solutions, has appointed Jeroen van Rooij as institutional sales director for the Benelux region.
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Three top executives leave Dutch doctors scheme
NETHERLANDS – The 10.5 billion-euro SBA Artsenpensioenfonds (Pension Fund for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists) in the Netherlands has lost three senior executives over the course of three months, it has emerged.
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UBS portfolio manager to join Kempen
NETHERLANDS – UBS’s Daniel van Akkeren is to join Kempen Capital Management in the Netherlands as a senior portfolio manager of European real estate securities.
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HSBC Securities Services hires from State Street
UK - John Cargill, managing director of State Street Trustees Ltd., is leaving the company to join HSBC Securities Services Europe.
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Aegon sets up Slovakia pension fund
NETHERLANDS – Aegon has launched a pension fund company in Slovakia, the life insurer said in a quarterly update.
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ABP calls for more individual products
NETHERLANDS – Pension funds are at risk of losing younger participants for their schemes unless they focus more on individual products, an executive at Dutch pension fund ABP has warned.
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ASW case goes to European Court of Justice
UK – Workers for steelmaker ASW in Wales are to take a high-profile case over their lost pensions to the European Court of Justice.
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Mercer sees one more mega custody merger
EUROPE – The securities services industry has “significant” scope to concentrate further – with another ‘mega-merger’ possible, a report by Mercer Securities has said.
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Half of Dutch corporate funds to disappear - ING
NETHERLANDS – Roughly half of the 740 corporate pension funds in the Netherlands are set to disappear within the next five years, Dutch bank ING Group has warned.
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PGGM welcomes last-minute pension deal
NETHERLANDS - PGGM, the 57 billion-euro pension fund for healthcare and social workers in the Netherlands, has welcomed a last-minute welfare reform deal struck between the Dutch government and its social partners at the weekend.
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PME cites single manager risk for F&C withdrawal
LONDON - PME, the 14 billion-euro Schiphol-based metal workers fund, has switched one billion euros of assets away from F&C Management to new providers.