Investor Strategy – Page 175
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Co-operative fund on diversification streak
[16:28 CEST 05/06] UK - The new £5.5bn career average Co-operative Group Pension Scheme is adjusting its equity/bond split in favour of diversification into currency, commodities and infrastructure.
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‘Disappointing’ plans threaten private equity law
[17:02 CEST 29/05] GERMANY – The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) has called a paper outlining the German ministry of Finance’s (BMF) stance on Germany’s new private equity law “a total disappointment”.
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DAX blue-chip sets up Pensionsfonds
[13:07 CEST 29/05] GERMANY – Energy giant RWE has set up a Pensionsfonds within its contractual trust agreement (CTA).
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Two-thirds prepared to take lower salary - NAPF
[11:00 CEST 29/05] UK - Three-quarters of staff think having a workplace pension is important and two-thirds of employees would take a lower paid job to get one, suggests research.
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ABP to triple its voting at AGMs
[16:58 CEST 25/05] NETHERLANDS - The giant civil service scheme ABP will drastically increase its voting at shareholders meetings, as a further improvement of its corporate governance policy, officials have announced.
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F&C catches the fiduciary wave
[15:49 CEST 24/05] NETHERLANDS – F&C Asset Management is planning to enter the popular Dutch fiduciary market later this year, having lost several Dutch pension fund mandates, IPE has learned.
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United Norwest seeks multi-asset returns via Barings
[12:56 CEST 23/05] UK- The United Norwest Co-operatives Employees’ Pension Fund has handed Baring Asset Management a mandate to manage £23m through its Extended Risk Fund.
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Older people are choosing to work – HSBC
[16:28 CEST 22/05] GLOBAL – More older people are choosing to work beyond the age of 60 because they continue to feel healthy and want to feel they have some value for society beyond retirement age, according to a global study conducted for HSBC.
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NBIM appoints real estate manager
[16:27 CEST 22/05] NORWAY – Paul Golding is joining Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to prepare what appears to be the bank's first foray into international real estate to invest assets of the NOK1.88trn (€230bn) Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global.
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Flemish Brecht to create pension fund
[13:00 CEST 22/05] BELGIUM – The Flemish municipality Brecht wants to set up a new pension fund, for which it has tendered a €2.6m (£1.8m) mandate.
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Institutional push for 130/30 returns
[16:55 CEST 21/05] EUROPE – Institutional managers and investors are jumping further into 130/30 strategies to gain higher investment returns, according to Dutch Blue Sky Group, the manager of the KLM pension fund assets.
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Passive mandates set to grow - Universal
[16:53 CEST 21/05] GERMANY – As pension funds find some active managers are not really outperforming the benchmark they will move to passive mandates, says Bernd Vorbeck, speaker of the board at Universal Investment.
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Aegon and UBS form UK buy-out team
[16:53 CEST 21/05] UK – Swiss banking major UBS is the latest investment bank to weigh into the lucrative bulk annuity market in a new buy-out joint venture with Dutch insurer Aegon.
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Stats reveal fewer second-pillar pensions
[10:51 CEST 21/05] GERMANY – Almost 20% fewer German employees signed a contract with a Pensionskasse in the first quarter of 2007 compared with last year.
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TFR changes give birth to three new funds
[17:00 CEST 18/05] ITALY – Italians working in the craftsmen, transport and agricultural sectors now have industry-specific pension funds.
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Art has no taste on pension fund palettes
[16:51 CEST] EUROPE - Investing in works of art is likely to remain outside the scope of pension funds’ interest for the foreseeable future despite recent attempts to increase awareness of the alternative asset class.
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Eureko sale latest blow for F&C
[13:07 CEST 18/05] NETHERLANDS/UK – Dutch insurance giant Eureko is selling some of its shares in F&C Asset Management to finance a push into Central Europe and Turkey, the company has announced.
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IPE-QUEST: Norwegian insurer in real estate search
[10:57 CEST 18/05] NORWAY – A Norwegian insurance company is looking for managers for a real estate portfolio in excess of $40m (€14.8m) using IPE-QUEST.
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M&A research still fails to reach target
[17:06 CEST 17/05] EUROPE - A lack of investment research on mergers and acquisitions is hampering European pension funds’ ability to assess whether deals carry any risks on non-financial grounds, according to a study.
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Finland to widen IORP into DC
[10:55 CEST 17/05] FINLAND – Finland is set to extend the implementation of the European pension fund directive (IORP) to cover defined contribution schemes, according to Matti Leppälä of the Finnish Pensions Alliance (TELA).
