Investor Strategy – Page 157
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Increase emphasis on manager skill – Hewitt
[17:10 CEST 18-09] EUROPE – In current market conditions, pension funds would be better off placing emphasis on strategies that are more dependent on manager skill rather than the direction of the markets, argues Peter Hill, a hedge fund specialist at Hewitt Associates.
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Swedish buffer funds exclude cluster bomb investment
[16:15 CEST 15-09] SWEDEN – Four AP-funds have agreed to divest from companies involved in the manufacture and sale of cluster munitions following a recommendation by the Ethical Council of the Swedish National Pension Funds.
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Charity Pensions Trust goes down buyout route
[15:45 CEST 15-09] UK – The £3.9bn (€4.9bn) Pensions Trust has tapped UK buyout company Paternoster to secure £225m worth of pension assets of its occupational Growth Plan pension scheme.
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IASB proposals could force status change for BASF pensions
[14:45 CEST 15-09] GERMANY - German multinational BASF AG has revealed around 95% of its active-member pension obligation will shift to the IASB's proposed fair value pension measure, if the standard-setter's recently-published proposals to reform pension accounting become GAAP.
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NewsBonus focuses on SRI in 'dark times'
[14:00 CEST 11-09] AUSTRIA – The smallest of the Austrian multi-employer pension funds is upping its sustainability investments in a year which the new chairman at Bonus Pensionskasse, Peter Deutsch, describes as 'rather dark'.
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News€9.8bn PGB extends SRI portfolio
[14:15 CEST 10-09] NETHERLANDS – The €9.8bn pension fund for the printing and publishing industry Pensioenfonds Grafische Bedrijven (PGB) has awarded a €60m social responsible investment (SRI) mandate to asset manager Threadneedle.
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Irish Bill to stop pensions investment in cluster bombs
[13:00 CEST 09-09] IRELAND – The Irish government has drafted a new Bill on investment in munitions such as cluster bombs that will specifically change the investment policy of the National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF).
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News€2.8bn media fund fancies alternatives
[16:10 CEST 05-09] NETHERLANDS – Officials at the Dutch pension fund PNO Media say they see fresh opportunities in investing in alternatives so plan to allocate another 5% of assets to this investment asset class this year.
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NewsSiemens to create single manager selection platform
[15:45 CEST 05-09] GLOBAL – The German electronics giant Siemens is working towards organising a single platform from its base in Munich for the asset manager selection of its various pension funds globally.
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Reforms to close two-thirds of small firm pensions
[15:15 CEST 05-09] UK – Over 60% of small employers believe the introduction of personal accounts and auto-enrolment will lead to an increase in the closure of existing schemes, according to the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA).
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Bavarian cooperative fund spreads its wings
[16:30 CEST 03-09] GERMANY – The €270m pension fund of the Bavarian cooperative Pensionskasse der Genossenschaftsorganisation VVaG has said it will expand beyond its Bavarian borders to target companies across the whole of Germany.
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Dutch encouraged to postpone state pension with higher payout
[15:45 CEST 01-09] NETHERLANDS - Dutch citizens are being offered the opportunity to postpone their state pension AOW by a maximum of five years in return for a higher benefit payout.
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Aegon taps new Spanish wealth
[16:45 CEST 29-08] SPAIN – Aegon, the Netherlands-headquartered insurer and asset manager, has taken a 50% stake in the life and pensions arm of north-eastern Spanish savings bank Caixa Terrassa for €190m, in a bid to expand the take-up of its life and pensions offering.
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'Sophisticated' Dutch funds lead LDI pack
[17:00 CEST 28-08] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension fund strategies have been described as being the most advanced among their developed country peers, as a study of executives suggests the majority have adopted liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies alongside the broadest range of products.
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ABP extends microfinance commitments
[16:00 CEST 28-08] NETHERLANDS – ABP, Europe’s second-largest pension fund by value, has stepped up its position in microfinance investing, and asked Swiss asset manager BlueOrchard to manage a further €50m.
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Norfolk awards active currency mandates
[16:45 CEST 26-08] UK – Norfolk County Council has awarded active currency mandates to Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Auriel Capital Management.
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Allianz responds to demand for Pensionsfonds risk
[16:15 CEST 22-08] GERMANY – German financial group Allianz is relaunching its “Pensionsfonds Chance” offering to deliver various risk levels, on the back of demand from clients who want to pay lower additional contributions.
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BBC's DB scheme to increase alternatives
[16:50 CEST 20-08] UK – Trustees of the £8.1bn (€10.2bn) BBC Pension Scheme have revealed they are looking at increasing commitments to alternative assets, following new allocations into debt, currency and private equity funds in 2007.
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PGGM taps into CLO market
[16:25 CEST 20-08] GLOBAL – PGGM, the asset manager to the Netherlands healthcare pension fund PFZW, has extended its structured credit investment strategy and signed to a $2.5bn (€3.2bn) trade finance agreement with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) on some of its loans business.
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NILGOSC adopts unconstrained equity mandates
[16:50 CEST 19-08] UK – The Northern Ireland Local Government Officers Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) has awarded four new unconstrained equity mandates, which includes the appointment of two new managers.
