All IPE articles in July 2006 (Online)
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
UK taken to European Court over pension directive
UK – The UK and Slovenia have been referred to the European Court of Justice by the European Commission for failing to implement the occupational pension funds directive.
-
News
UK reconsiders principles of pensions accounting
UK – The UK’s Accounting Standards Board says it is undergoing a project to “reconsider the fundamental principles of pensions accounting”.
-
News
Mercer partner Cowling quits to join JLT arm
UK – Charles Cowling, long-term worldwide partner at Mercer Human Resources Consulting, has quit to join pensions advisory outfit Pension Capital Strategies (PCS) as managing director.
-
News
Dutch government turmoil could hit FTK
NETHERLANDS – The collapse of the Dutch centre-right government last night could delay the implementation of the new Financial Assessment Framework, or FTK, pension experts have warned.
-
News
DeAM names Roemer institutional chief
GERMANY – Peter Roemer has left Crédit Suisse Asset Management to join Deutsche Asset Management as its new head of European institutional business with immediate effect.
-
News
ABP takes 100% stake in Loyalis as levensloop comes under fire
NETHERLANDS - Civil service pension fund ABP has increased its stake in its subsidiary company Loyalis from 20% to 100%, it has announced.
-
News
Schenk appointed UBS pension MD
SWITZERLAND – The CHF20.2bn (€12.8bn) pension fund of Swiss banking giant UBS has appointed Christoph Schenk as its new managing director, effective January 1, 2007.
-
News
Bic pension appoints new manager
UK – The roughly £22m (€32m) Bic pension fund has appointed multi-manager Investment Solutions to manage its closed defined benefit scheme using liability driven investment strategies.
-
News
GE Asset Management CEO exits
UK – Gavin Hill, chief executive of GE Asset Management, has quit to join the board of directors as investment director at pensions liability buyout vehicle Synesis Life under CEO Isabel Hudson.
-
News
NAPF-ISS joint venture in ownership change
UK – US-based Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and the National Association of Pension Funds have announced that their joint venture, RREV, will now be solely owned by ISS.
-
News
PPF seeks COO, finance director
UK – The Pension Protection Fund, the government pensions lifeboat, is looking to appoint a chief operating officer and financial risk director.
-
News
Shareholders to vote on corporate governance - Eumedion
NETHERLANDS - The shareholders of a listed company should have a vote on its corporate governance policy, in order to achieve an adequate motivation in case of a deviation of the Tabaksblat Code, said Eumedion, the platform for corporate governance.
-
News
AP2 in €469m fundamental index shift
SWEDEN - Andra AP-fonden, the roughly SEK190.6bn (€20.5bn) Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) today announced it has allocated 15% of its US equity portfolio to fundamental indexation.
-
News
Petercam Netherlands lose half its directors
NETHERLANDS - Three of the six directors of stockbroker Petercam Netherlands will leave the company to start their own hedge fund, they have announced.
-
News
Pension funds could buy 20% government stake in Schiphol
NETHERLANDS – Government is planning to sell close to a third of its stake in Schiphol airport to institutional investors, according to Dutch finance minister Gerrit Zalm.
-
News
HDI’s Stoeckl moves to UNED
GERMANY – UNED AG, a specialist in developing financial products for insurers, banks and fund companies, has recruited Michaela Stoeckl from corporate pensions adviser HDI Pensionsmanagement.
-
News
Wiltshire tenders €1.4bn custody brief
UK – The roughly £1bn (€1.4bn) Wiltshire County Council pension fund is tendering for a new global custodian.
-
News
Credit Agricole makes three senior AM appointments
EUROPE - Credit Agricole Asset Management has appointed three senior executives, including an equity investment chief and strategy head, in a bid to strengthen its Paris-London-Milan links.
-
News
WH Smith revamps pension scheme
UK - The trustees of retailer WH Smith's pension fund have agreed a scheme restructure in a move labelled “ground breaking” by market commentators.
-
News
Austrian schemes should return 3% to 6% - Böhm
AUSTRIA – Pension funds in Austria should deliver a return of between 3% and 6% for 2006 - far below the 11.4% return for 2005, according to Christian Böhm, head of the Austrian pension fund association (FVPK).
