All articles by David White – Page 20
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TUC names managers refusing to disclose how they voted
UK - The UK’s Trades Union Congress (TUC), which co-ordinates a network of over 1,000 pension fund trustees, has ‘named and shamed’ fund managers who refuse to disclose how they voted on behalf of their pension fund clients.
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CalPERS Crist wins ICGN governance award
NETHERLANDS William Crist, the former chairman of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), has won the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) award for contributions to corporate governance.
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Baring AM’s Mantel leaves to start hedge fund
UK - European pensions expert Jan Mantel has left Baring Asset Management, where he was head of the UK and European equity team, to start his own hedge fund.
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European countries move to UK pension model
EUROPE - Continental European countries are moving towards the UK model of pensions provision, according to a senior executive of a leading UK asset manager.
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Europe fragmenting on hedge fund regulation
EUROPE - The European hedge fund market will become increasingly fragmented, as more countries adopt their own system of hedge fund regulation, an alternative investment consultant predicts.
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BNP Paribas integrates Cogent and rebrands
UK - BNP Paribas Securities Services has re-branded its securities services as an integrated business that includes the Cogent business which it acquired last September.
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EDHEC announces index of indices for hedge fund investors
FRANCE - French business school EDHEC, specialising in asset management, has launched an “index of indices” for alternative investments. It says the aim is to provide institutional investors with a better benchmark for their hedge fund investors.
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ASIP says 40% of Swiss schemes underfunded
SWITZERLAND - Two in five of Switzerland’s occupational pension funds are underfunded, according to Association of Swiss Pension Funds (ASIP) .
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New head for Milliman Global network
GLOBAL - Carl Hansen has been appointed executive director of Milliman Global, an international organisation of actuarial and consulting firms that includes Hymans Robertson and Milliman UK.
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Employers support moves to more compulsion in pensions
UK - Employers in the UK would back greater compulsion to save for a pension if the government’s current pension reforms fail to check the decline of occupational pensions.
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Three pillar foundation
Life insurers and banks offering mutual funds stand to gain most from any expansion of Greece’s funded occupational pension plans. The Greek life market is dominated by a handful of insurers. In 2001 the top four had 66% of the market, split between Interamerican (now part of the Netherlands-based consortium ...
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Dollar's fall divides market
The recent realignment of the euro with the dollar has created clearly defined winners and losers in the Eurozone equities market. The winners are companies that import their raw materials from outside the Euro-zone while the losers are companies like semiconductors that export outside the Euro-zone. Catherine Reilly, chief economist ...
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Deepest and most liquid market
Ask any manager of US fixed income why investors need to be invested in US fixed income and they will tell you that no bond market is so large or so wide or so deep or so liquid. Worth an estimated $7trn (E6trn) it dwarfs every other market in the ...
