All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 3
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News
PIRC spells out shareholder voting guidelines
UK - PIRC, the Pensions Investment Research Consultants, has issued its new institutional shareholder voting guidelines for 2004....
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Invesco buys stake in HVB real estate arm
EUROPE - Invesco Real Estate has bought around a 75% stake in the 3.5 billion-euro institutional real estate investment arm of Germany’s Hypovereinsbank (HVB) in a deal believed to be worth between 30-50 million euros.
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Features
An uncomfortably hot seat
As Malcolm Wicks, UK Minister of State for Pensions, acknowledges, the world of pensions has changed from a “rather dusty but worthy corner of business and public policy” to a “big issue” that regularly makes front-page headlines in UK tabloid newspapers. “That can be uncomfortable for Pensions Ministers from time ...
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AXA to launch European real estate ETFs
EUROPE - AXA Real Estate Investment Managers is to launch the first ever exchange traded funds in Europe focusing on real estate.
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Features
EIORP step to pan-European funds
When the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) unveiled the original version of its linguistically challenging EIORP concept back in July 2000, the pan-European pensions directive was still something of a blocked pipe dream. The polemic strategy of Europe’s pension lobby group at the time reflects very much where we ...
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Special Report
Ethix in AP7 Fund deal
Swedish ethical consulting firm, Ethix, says it is about to sign a deal that will see AP7 and a number of other institutions take an approximately 50% stake in the firm. Ethix was formed this year after a number of staff left SRI consulting firm CaringCompany –Etikanalytikerna, which re-cently changed ...
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EC pensions tax latest: Commission to act this Wednesday
The European Commission today confirmed that it will be taking action on pensions tax infringement procedures against EU Member States this Wednesday (Dec 17th)...
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Nordic SRI firm GES blacklists BASF, Nomura
GLOBAL - BASF and Nomura Holdings have been placed on an investment blacklist by Nordic SRI consulting firm GES Investment Services, for violating international ethical business guidelines.
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Sweden’s AP7 to take stake in new SRI firm Ethix
SWEDEN - Swedish ethical consulting firm Ethix says it is about to sign a deal that will see AP7 and a number of other institutions take an approximately 50% stake in the firm.
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Features
ABP hits IPE-Awards jackpot
European superfund ABP scooped the board at the 2003 IPE-Awards in Amsterdam on November 20th by carrying off no fewer than five of the trophies - including the coveted Gold award for European Pension Fund of the Year. The incredible haul by the Dutch public pension fund for government, ...
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Julius Baer’s London CEO Christian Yates departs
UK - Christian Yates, the chief executive of the London operations of Swiss asset manager Julius Baer has left the company.
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USS competition event sparks call for a ‘real mandate’
AMSTERDAM - One of the leading lights behind the landmark long-term/ responsible investment mandate competition organised by the UK’s Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and consultant Hewitt Bacon and Woodrow, says she hopes that the energy and innovation sparked by the event can be carried through to the longer-term with the ...
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Irish pensions 'hurricane' has left funds beyond repair - Broxson
Irish Pension funds have been through a "pensions hurricane”, which has left some beyond repair, according to Alan Broxson, director of the Irish Pensions Trust.
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Multinats split on directive
EUROPE - European multinationals are evenly split as to whether the adoption of the pan-European pension directive will prompt them to review whether it is currently worth establishing a pan-European pension fund.
