All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 6
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Features
Mapping out the road ahead
It wouldn’t have been hard to guess the theme dominating the concerns of CEOs from Europe’s leading asset management houses over the last year, but seeing it in black and white (pages 2-9) brings it home that much more firmly. Current equity market conditions, of course, are stretching the minds ...
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Belgian pension funds return –11.92% in 2002
BELGIUM - Belgian pension funds returned an average –11.92% for 2002, slightly lower than predicted earlier this year, according to final figures released by the Belgian pension fund association.
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ISIS Asset Management discloses voting record
UK - ISIS Asset Management has brought out into the open its shareholder voting policy on behalf of its clients.
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Dutch pension funds to use SRI criteria - study
NETHERLANDS - Around three quarters of Dutch pension funds say they expect to be using social, ethical or environmental criteria in their stock selection in the “near future” – according to a new study.
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France sees street protests over pension reform
FRANCE - Hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets of France today as part of a general strike called by the country’s unions in protest at reforms of the country’s pensions system.
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Avoiding the 'DB killer'
Agreement on the translation of IAS 19 accounting standards for Dutch pension funds looks set to allay fears about how the standards might affect the Netherlands’ predominantly defined benefit (DB) pension plans. According to Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of the OPF, interested parties, including the OPF, have been talking to and ...
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Top staff leave as e628m Dutch fund closes
NETHERLANDS – Senior staff at Rijswijk-based building group HBG’s pension fund will next month leave for new jobs in the Dutch pensions industry.
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Tax holding back European asset management growth, says CEPS
EUROPE -There is no need for a separate asset management directive to supercede those currently covering the European fund management industry, according to a high-level European report unveiled today by Brussels-based think-tank, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
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Dutch PVK set out views on pensions solvency
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch pensions and insurance regulator PVK (Pensioen & Verzekeringskamer) has published in English its White Paper on solvency tests, laying out its approach to the measurement of technical provisions for pension plans as well as the basis for consistent valuation of assets and liabilities.
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E1.2bn TNO fund appoints enhanced index manager
NETHERLANDS - The Rijswijk-based e1.2bn TNO pension fund for workers in the Dutch public/private sector for research and statistics, has awarded State Street Global Advisors an enhanced index mandate worth around e100m over the next couple of years.
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T Rowe Price to open Amsterdam office
NETHERLANDS - US asset management firm T Rowe Price is set to open a new institutional sales office in Amsterdam in the coming months as a springboard to marketing its products to Dutch institutional clients.
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Dutch pension funds eye new accounting standard
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch association of company pension funds, or OPF, believes that agreement on the translation of IAS 19 accounting standards for Dutch pension funds could be made within the next week.
