All articles by IPE staff – Page 24
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Features
How efficiency leads to management excellence
Inarcassa firmly believes that strong governance and efficient investment processes are essential to excel in the management of pension fund assets. The scheme relies on effective decision-making, regular performance measurement for the fund, money managers and consultants, as well as transparency and communication to its members and the different governing ...
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Young scheme sets out to engage with membership
Communication for pension funds is never easy, especially when it comes to making them easy to understand and interesting for members who often have a preconceived idea that the subject is boring and complex. This was the challenge facing the winner of IPE’s Country Award 2005 for Switzerland, the Media ...
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Pyramid structure provides solid foundations
Two special characteristics led to Germany’s Nordrheinische Aertzeversorgung (NAEV), the North Rhine Doctors’ Pension Scheme, entering and winning IPE’s coveted themed award for property investments: the restructuring of its real estate portfolio and its risk-adjusted asset allocation strategy. Founded in 1959 in the densely populated and highly industrialised state of ...
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Innovation gets results
PME Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds Metalektro (PME), which has assets under management of €18bn, attributes its success to a number of clear-cut principles that underpin the organisation and govern the way in which the pension scheme operates. PME has a strong executive board that is responsible for determining basic policy. The task of ...
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Getting results from promoting greener way of investing
Socially responsible investing (SRI) has for some time been in fashion among institutional investors. Yet it is an approach that is easier to talk about than put into practice. This year’s SRI winner – the Environment Agency Active Fund – has, however, managed to translate the rhetoric into action. The ...
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Satisfied by sexy industry
Han Thoman recently retired as managing director of Blue Sky Group, which manages the pension assets of airline KLM and several other clients. He also stepped down as chairman of OPF, the Dutch organisation for company pension funds. He joined Blue Sky in 1999 as it was spun off from ...
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Outstanding performance from innovative newcomer
The Gildi Pension Fund is a new name in Icelandic pensions, but it has now won the country award in the first year of its existence. The fund was established on 1 January 2005, from the merger of two pension funds, the Framsyn Pension Fund and the Seamen’s Pension Fund. ...
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News
IPE Real Estate launches website
GLOBAL – IPE Real Estate, the specialist magazine for institutional investors, has today launched a new website to provide further insight into the fast-growing international real estate investment market place.
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Features
Bullring acquisition
Henderson Global Investors’ UK shopping centre fund has purchased a £130m (e192.3m) stake in Birmingham’s The Bullring from Australian insurer AMP Life. In exchange AMP has taken units in the fund, in order to increase its diversification to the UK shopping centre market. AMP Capital Investors believe there is strong ...
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Done deals in London
The property deal-flow in London continues unabated with a number of funds and property companies reporting successful completions. Insight foundation property trust has acquired National Magazine House at 72 Broadwick Street, W1 from Shaftesbury plc for £45m (€66.5m). The price reflects a net initial yield of 5.29%. The property is ...
