All articles by Fennell Betson – Page 19
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Shareholders increasingly scrutinise risk/returns
GLOBAL- There is increasing pressure from shareholders and from regulators to make sure that risk is managed and that shareholders are getting appropriate returns for their investment, said Simon Jeffreys of PricewaterhouseCoopers' global investment management team in London.
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US pension funds assume “too much" for returns
US - A wide gap is developing between the assumptions used by US pension and their rate of return expectations for a number of asset classes, according to research firm Greenwich Associates in Connecticut.
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Internal pension managers beat external players
UK – Internal pension fund managers have better investment results than external managers, according to an analysis by performance measurer WM Company...
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Don’t abandon DB plea to employers
UK - British employers should resist pressure to close final salary schemes to existing employees, says the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), in London, which has 110,000 members among personnel people.
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UK P/E fund pulls in European and US investors
UK - European and US institutions have backed a new private equity fund targeting UK investment opportunities. London-based investment bank Close Brothers raised £202m(€330.4m) in its closed CBPE Fund VI, just exceeding its £200m target.
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Multi-employer move by Verbund
The fund of Verbund is certainly testing the structure of the Austrian pensions industry. In November, it announced that it was no longer going to be a single company scheme, but was going to join the ranks of those in multi-employer schemes, nominating one of the largest ÖPAG, as its ...
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Spezialfonds’ assets fall in 2001 to €507bn
Germany-The value of German Spezialfonds invested assets fell in 2001 by 1.4% to €506.9bn, their first fall in the 33-year long history...
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Laying the foundations
At the end of last year, an era in Austria pensions came to end, as Helmut Kapl retired as head of the APK-Pensionskasse group he had done so much to build up. But, he is not going quietly into the twilight of retirement. He has a number of irons in ...
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Benchmarks are for beating
There was a time when British university lecturers carried around bundles of individual life assurance policies accumulated throughout their careers as part of their retirement arrangements. By the mid-1970s, the folly of this approach had become apparent, leading to the establishment of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. It is now the ...
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Travelling cautiously
Outside the window of Ton Groeneveld’s office in Utrecht, the trains run past constantly, a perpetual reminder if he ever needed it of what his job is all about. He is chief investment officer at SPF Beheer, the management company that was formed in 1994 to administer the e10bn Railways ...
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Pleas for help
As many as eight European member states may be blocking the proposed European Directive on occupational pension funds due to opposition to the prudent person investment rule, Othmar Karas, European Parliament rapporteur for the directive, has told the EFRP/NAPF International Conference in Brussels. In a speech urging the European pensions ...
