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Italians take to streets over pension reform
ITALY – Italians took to the streets of Rome on Saturday in protest at the government’s pension reform plans – though the government says the action will complicate matters.
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Allianz sets up asset management admin arm
GERMANY – Allianz’s Deutscher Investment Trust says it wants to position its new Fondsdepot subsidiary as an independent administrative centre for the asset management industry.
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Final Tabaksblatt governance report due
NETHERLANDS – The final report of the Tabaksblatt committee of corporate governance will be presented to the Dutch government tomorrow.
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Ageing could boost German markets – report
GERMANY – A new academic report has argued that demographic ageing is not necessarily a bad thing for German capital markets.
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State Street unveils ‘virtual’ asset pooling
EUROPE - Global custody group State Street says it is introducing a ‘virtual’ product for multinational pension fund asset pooling.
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TNO puts E30m into hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – The 1.3 billion-euro pension fund of Dutch research institute TNO has allocated 30 million euros to hedge funds, taking the cash out of equities.
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Ex-Siemens Scherkamp sets up own firm
EUROPE - Peter Scherkamp, the former head of finance strategy at the Siemens pension fund, has returned to the pensions advisory business.
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Germany’s BVK has smooth asset transition
GERMANY – The 29 billion-euro BVK, or Bayerische Versorgungskammer, says the transition of assets to its new array of external managers has gone very smoothly.
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Morley names consultant relationship manager
UK - Morley Fund Management has named Zoe Mepham as consultant relationship manager in its UK institutional team, a new role.
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German institutions eye tactical asset allocation
GERMANY - German institutional investors are increasingly focusing on the possibilities for tactical asset allocation (TAA) within their portfolios.
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UK says trustees highly dependent on consultants
UK – A new report commissioned by the government’s pensions department says trustees are “highly dependent” on investment consultants.
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USS and Railpen in global engagement forum inititative
GLOBAL – Two of the UK’s largest pension schemes have established a forum for global investors to address the issue of cross-border shareholder activism and corporate governance.
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Pictet study makes contradictory SRI findings
EUROPE – A new study by Pictet Asset Management has come up with a contradictory view about socially responsible investing.
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Big names back new Dutch pension periodical
NETHERLANDS – Some of the biggest names in the Dutch pensions industry are backing a new pensions quarterly called Pensioen Bestuur & Management, or Pension Administration & Management.
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Funds should manage core internally - IPE panel
NETHERLANDS - European pension funds should manage the core of their business internally, and outsource only the specialist areas of asset management to external managers.
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Baring AM hires Kiddie as Walker retires
UK - Baring Asset Management has hired David Kiddie, former head of equities at Rothschild Asset Management.
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Dexia sees rise in institutional inflows
BELGIUM – Dexia’s institutional fund management business has seen increasing net in flows over the first nine months of the year.
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'Value' consistently outperforms 'growth' - UK study
UK - The first comprehensive study of the ‘value effect’ in the UK equity markets demonstrates that value stocks have outperformed growth stocks for almost 50 years.
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“We are getting this behind us,” says Putnam
GLOBAL – A top executive at Putnam Investments has told IPE in an interview that the firm is putting the improper trading scandal quickly behind it.
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CSAM boosts Swiss real estate team
SWITZERLAND – Credit Suisse Asset Management’s Swiss arm has named Werner Richli a senior research analyst for real estate.
