All IPE articles in June 2005 (Online) – Page 4
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Germany’s MAN to set up external pension fund
GERMANY – Engineering giant MAN Group has confirmed plans to remove €1.72bn in pension liabilities from its balance sheet and finance them via an external fund.
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Varma’s capital markets chief Kuusisto resigns
FINLAND - Petri Kuusisto, director of capital markets at Finnish pension insurance company Varma, is to resign and be replaced by Mikko Koivusalo.
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Fund body EFAMA names new president
EUROPE – Investment fund association EFAMA has appointed a new president and vice president.
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Akzo Nobel may outsource €4bn pension assets
NETHERLANDS – Dutch healthcare, coatings and chemicals group Akzo Nobel is understood to be looking to outsource its pension responsibilities in a Philips-style deal.
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DeAM loses Lincolnshire brief to Martin Currie
UK – Deutsche Asset Management has lost an active UK equity brief to Martin Currie Investment Management after the £840m (€1.2bn) Lincolnshire County Council pension fund changed its performance target.
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MLIM boosts European consultant team
EUROPE – Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has a new Zurich-based director in its global consultants group.
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Storebrand in “dawn raid” on Norwegian pensions
NORWAY – A move by Storebrand to move ahead of its competitors in the Norwegian group pensions market has been described as a “dawn raid” in a new research report.
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EU’s Spidla admits to fears for pension system
EUROPE – The European Commission’s social affairs chief Vladimir Spidla has admitted that demographic trends are leading to fears that the European pension system could be “overwhelmed”.
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Insurer Zurich ditches DB in Switzerland
SWITZERLAND – Insurer Zurich has switched its Swiss defined benefit pension arrangements to defined contribution - the decision affects about 6,000 employees.
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UK’s Pension Protection Fund eyes trustee pay
UK - Trustees of underfunded pension schemes under the wing of the Pension Protection Fund could be paid to provide the PPF with their experience.
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Fund distributor Allfunds opens UK office
UK – Allfunds, an investment fund distributor co-owned by Spain’s Grupo Santander and Italy’s Sanpaolo-IMI, has opened an office in London under former Abbey executive Holly Mackay.
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Alecta real estate manager joins Schroders
SWEDEN - The manager of Swedish pension fund Alecta’s European real estate portfolio is leaving to join Schroder Property Investment Management.
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Sweden’s PPM sets up scientific advice board
SWEDEN - The Swedish Premium Pension Authority, PPM, has created a four-strong scientific advisory board.
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Dutch system seen as global pension leader
NETHERLANDS – “The Dutch pensions industry had come from being a virtually unknown pension power 10 years ago, to being the global pension revolution leader today,” said Keith Ambachtsheer, academic and strategic adviser to pension plans.
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France’s FRR calls managers to SRI meeting
FRANCE – The €19.6bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, is planning to meet asset managers about socially responsible investing later this month.
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Turkey says new pension system to beat target
TURKEY – Turkey says the individual pension system launched less than two years ago is growing faster than expected.
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Inarcassa CEO Tosi joins alternatives house
ITALY - Paolo Tosi, chief executive of Inarcassa, the €3bn pension fund for self-employed architects and engineers, has left the fund to join alternatives group Kairos Partners.
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EnBW taps FondsConsult for €3.8bn revamp
GERMANY - Energy giant Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) has hired Munich investment consultant FondsConsult to assist it with a sweeping revamp of €3.8bn in corporate pension assets.
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MEPs to write to Commission over directive
EUROPE - Two MEPs are to confront the European Commission over the failure by member states to properly implement the EU directive on occupational pensions once the September 23 deadline has passed.
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Railpen hires former Lane Clark consultant
UK - Railpen Investments, which manages £15bn (€22.6bn) of pension assets for the UK rail industry, has hired a former consultant from Lane Clark & Peacock as senior investment manager.