All IPE articles in July 2007 (Online)
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Romania introduces pension fund risk profile
ROMANIA – Pension funds in the recently-created Romanian second pillar will be labelled "high risk level" if they have less than 65% invested in low-risk bonds.
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Norfolk seeks currency managers
[17:00 CEST 31-07] UK – The £1.72bn (€2.54bn) Norfolk County Council Pension Fund is looking to appoint one or more managers for its £100m specialist active currency portfolio.
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Estonia needs to change pension indexation - IMF
ESTONIA – Current legal practices regarding the indexation of pension benefits is the major factor behind the destabilization of Estonian finances, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found.
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Levensloop and spaarloon should merge - Bovenberg
[17:00 CEST 31-07] NETHERLANDS - The tax-friendly saving schemes ‘spaarloon’ and ‘levensloop’ should be merged into a wider and robust savings facility for periods with less income, according to experts.
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Stanlib targets African growth
[16:45 CEST 31-07] EUROPE – South African asset manager Stanlib is moving into the European institutional market with the launch of two funds tapping the growth potential of African equities.
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Data important in risk-based supervision - IOPS
[13:00 CEST 31-07] GLOBAL – One of the biggest challenges in moving to a risk-based supervision of pension funds is data collection, the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) has found.
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Joint venture strengthens Aegon’s foothold in Spain
[11:00 CEST 31-07] SPAIN - Aegon has strengthened its foothold in the Spanish pensions and life insurance market by agreeing to establish a joint venture with savings bank Caja Cantabria.
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Dutch schemes recall Fortis’ securities for ABN vote
[17:00 CEST 30-07] NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds are recalling their loaned securities in Fortis Bank to prevent activist hedge funds benefiting from the implicit voting rights on Fortis’ bid for ABN Amro.
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TSC cautions over private equity in market downturn
[16:30 CEST 30-07] UK – The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) is calling on the Bank of England to look at the impact of economic downturns on the increasing number of leveraged buyouts.
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Employer quits Swiss scheme APK over bailout
[16:30 CEST 30-07] SWITZERLAND – Aargauische Pensionskasse (APK), a CHF6bn (€3.6bn) pension fund for Swiss civil servants, has lost one of its public employer-backers to another Pensionskasse as the employer in question is unwilling to help finance its bailout.
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ING spreads wings into Greece and Latin America
[16:00 CEST 30-07] NETHERLANDS - Dutch banking group ING has signed a memorandum of understanding with Greece-based Piraeus Bank for a 10-year exclusive distribution partnership in Greece covering life, employee benefits and pension insurances.
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Dutch railway fund invests in opportunities
[15:30 CEST 30-07] NETHERLANDS – Spoorwegpensioenfonds (SPF), the €12.1bn Dutch railway pension fund, is looking to invest a total of 5% of its assets in a new ‘opportunity portfolio’.
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Waltham Forest completes overhaul
[15:00 CEST 30-07] UK – The £485m (€719.6m) London Borough of Waltham Forest pension fund has appointed six new managers.
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FRR awards three more passive mandates
[14:30 CEST 30-07] FRANCE – The €33.4bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) appointed the final three managers to its newly-created passive portfolio.
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IPE Quest: Swiss fund seeks fund of hedge funds
[14:15 CEST 30-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund is tendering a $400m (€293m) long-short-equity fund of hedge funds mandate, using IPE-Quest.
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Solvency II "could threaten hedge funds"
[17:03 CEST 27-07] EUROPE - Institutional investments in hedge funds and other alternatives assets classes could come under threat by the Solvency II directive, French business school, Edhec, has claimed.
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Ruling reduces ‘wind-up’ member priority
[17:00 CEST 27-07] UK - The Court of Appeal has overturned an earlier ruling stating defined benefit pension scheme accruals falling under the “Barber Window Service” should be given priority when an underfunded scheme is in wind-up.
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Turkisfund to target EU investors
TURKEY - Turkisfund will start marketing its Turkey funds to European investors from its Luxembourg office later this summer.
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Building industry’s fund to reveal investments
[15:30 CEST 27-07] NETHERLANDS - The €25bn industry-wide pension fund for the building industry BPF Bouw is to publish its equity investments to increase transparency.
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Hungary to cut pension benefits
[15:00 CEST 27-07] HUNGARY – IMF staff have welcome steps taken by the Hungarian government to tighten access to disability pension and the early retirement programme.
