All articles by Julie Henderson – Page 5
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NewsPension funds called on to invest in infrastructure
[15:30 CET 01-02] UK – The UK government has called on pension funds to consider investing in infrastructure, as officials admit hundreds billions of pounds of investments is needed over the next 10 years.
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Features
DC risk sharing and how to go about it
The investment losses suffered in the last two years of downturn have inspired new thinking – not least on how to improve the risk-return profile of defined contribution (DC) pension investing and how to secure cheap DC guarantees. Many of these ideas were discussed at a conference on DC risk-sharing in January hosted at The University of Exeter Business School. And they could be useful to the pension regimes of most countries, according to participants.
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NewsGoldman and Russell assigned to transition FRR assets
[15:20 CET 29-01] FRANCE – Goldman Sachs and Russell Implementation Services have been appointed by FRR, the French national pension reserve, to handle the transition management of its assets.
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NewsPension investors unveil environmental real estate index
[13:00 CET 28-01] GLOBAL – A study conducted on behalf of three major European pension investors has led to the launch of a global Environmental Real Estate index, after evidence showed few property managers meet the global standards pension funds expect when it comes to tackling environmental issues.
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NewsWednesday people roundup
[13:30 CET 27-01] GLOBAL – USS, Alfred Berg, Towers Watson, Icelandic Investment Fund, West LB Mellon AM, Russell Investments, Aegon AM, SWIP, Penfida, American Century Investments, Hermes Fund Managers.
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NewsRapporteur swamped by over 1000 AIFM amendments
[16:10 CET 26-01] EUROPE – Jean-Paul Gauzès, rapporteur for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, has received over 1000 proposed amendments from MEPs while recommendations from other sources suggest the entire Directive should be widened to cover all alternative investment funds.
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NewsAllianceBernstein banks on target DC for Europe
[15:45 CET 25-01] UK – AllianceBernstein has remodelled its US target date funds range for the European market, and could eventually offer some form of guarantee.
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NewsCzech Republic should apply IORP Directive - ECJ
CZECH REPUBLIC – The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled the Czech Republic has acted in breach of European law by failing to implement the Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive, even though the country does not actually have any IORPs.
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NewsNominal GDP swaps 'could be key to DC guarantee'
[16:20 CET 14-01] EUROPE – Officials at the Bank of Italy have been working on a proposal to create a public swap-based return guarantee for members of defined contribution funds.
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NewsSWFs urged to step up investor engagement
[15:45 CET 14-01] GLOBAL – An analysis of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) has concluded that the time may be right for funds to both satisfy international concerns about corporate governance yet review a recent decision by some to stand back from exercising their shareholder voting rights.
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NewsCardano to advise BAA's DB trustees
[16:45 CET 13-01] UK – Trustees of the £2bn (€2.2bn) BAA defined benefit pension scheme have appointed Cardano to act as its investment advisers.
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NewsStarting gun misfired on UK’s pensions
[16:00 CET 13-01] UK – Consulting firm Towers Watson has criticised the UK government’s pensions auto-enrolment strategy for all employers and likened its application to hosting just one event at the 2012 Olympics.
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NewsWednesday people roundup
[15:15 CET 13-01] GLOBAL – Janus Capital, Towers Watson, Threadneedle, Axa IM, Aberdeen AM, SAM, SWIP, Ignis AM, GEAM, Guardian Managers, RBC, StatPro
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NewsPension funds tap growing prospects for emerging markets
[12:30 CET 13-01] IPE-QUEST – Two European pension funds are pursuing the predicted surge of interest in emerging markets equity investments and have launched searches for suitable EM managers, using IPE-Quest.
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NewsInvestors to follow pre-turmoil strategies - research
[16:30 CET 12-01] EUROPE – European institutional investors look set to maintain the portfolio strategies they held prior to recent market turbulence, suggests research. But German firms may be thinking of bringing more external management back in-house.
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NewsUK defined benefit pensions pull back deficits
[15:15 CET 12-01] UK – UK corporate pension schemes last year gained approximately 10.6% of the losses suffered during 2008 as figures presented by the Pension Protection Fund suggest defined benefit funds amassed £827.7bn (€922.5bn) in assets by the end of 2009.
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NewsPensions funds consider shift back into property
[16:40 CET 11-01] EUROPE – European and North American pension funds are planning to increase investments in real estate over the coming year and the majority of schemes are reviewing external managers, an asset allocation survey has suggested.
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NewsPensions risk could be traded under new DC design
[15:45 CET 11-01] EUROPE – A proposal for a new type of guaranteed defined contribution pension scheme has been unveiled, which splits members into age-based funds and then allows them to trade certain benefits or assets between each other.
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NewsAberdeen buys £13.5bn RBS book to boost assets
[16:45 CET 08-01] UK – Aberdeen Asset Management has bought multimanager, fund of hedge fund (FoHF) and other non-core assets of RBS worth £13.5bn (€bn), but revealed its own assets under management fell in the last three months of 2009 as a result of outflows and falling returns.
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NewsAPG presents solutions to collective DC risk sharing
[15:45 CET 08-01] NETHERLANDS/UK – APG Asset Management has presented proposals to create hybrid collective pension schemes using age-differentiated lifecycle investing – a move that could help spread risk between generations.
