All IPE articles in June 2008 (Online) – Page 5
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Royal Mail given "last chance" to avoid strike threat
[16:35 CEST 13-06] UK – Royal Mail could face further pension strikes unless it provides a "satisfactory response" to concerns over pension changes, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has warned.
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IAMAs crown excellence in asset management
[16:55 CEST 13-06] EUROPE – Eleven Europe-based asset management firms, including Petercam Asset Management and Capital International, were rewarded last night for excellence in institutional asset management offerings, at the inaugural IPE-EDHEC Institutional Asset Management Awards.
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Fonchim expands manager base on asset growth
[11:00 CEST 16-06] ITALY - Fonchim, the Italian chemical workers' pension scheme with more than €1.9bn under management, is looking for new managers for around €550m of assets.
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'Fiscalise' Dutch first pillar – Commission Bakker
[15:45 CEST 16-06] NETHERLANDS – The Labour Participation Commission, appointed by minister of social affairs Piet Hein Donner, today suggested the Dutch state pension (AOW) should be overhauled as one of its key recommendations.
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Danish pension charges could spark tax rise
[16:00 CEST 16-06] DENMARK - The Danish pensions industry could see some of its tax advantages cut if the government accepts a recommendation by the country’s Competition Commission.
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Merseyside tenders European equities mandate
[16:20 CEST 16-06] UK – The £4.3bn (€5.5bn) Merseyside Pension Scheme is seeking an European equity manager to run a portfolio valued at approximately £135m.
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AEGON sets top Czech return rate
[16:30 CEST 16-06] CZECH REPUBLIC – AEGON pension fund has set a rate of return of 4.5% for 2007 - more than two percentage points higher than the largest Czech pension fund Ceske Pojistovny (PFCP).
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BT denies plans to close DB scheme
[16:30 CEST 16-06] UK – BT has denied it is planning to close any of its pension schemes, including the £37.3bn (€47.4bn) defined benefit BT Pension Scheme, following a threat of strike action from unions over the firm's pension review.
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Rights issue protagonist quits UBS
[16:50 CEST 16-06] SWITZERLAND – Swiss pension fund Profond has sold its shares in Swiss bank UBS citing “mistrust” in the new management, just months after arguing smaller shareholders should be allowed to invest in the firm.
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Pension communication needs interactive kick
[17:00 CEST 16-06] NETHERLANDS – Pension funds need to transform the way they communicate with their members by appealing to the social DNA today’s fifty-somethings and the ever expanding computer game generation demanding interactivity.
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Talking point: Rows resurface over Solvency II (updated)
TALKING POINT EUROPE - There is widespread debate about whether a Solvency II-type arrangements should be placed on occupational pension funds, following fresh comments from French government and Dutch pension fund officials among others last week.
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ERAFP signs new president
[11:20 CEST 17-06] FRANCE - Jean-François Rocchi has been named this morning as president of France’s second-largest pension fund, the civil service supplementary pension scheme known as l’établissement de retraite additionnelle de la fonction publique (ERAFP).
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Oyak sells private pension division
[11:35 CEST 17-06] TURKEY – Oyak, the Turkish Army Pension Fund, has sold its private pension subsidiary Oyak Emeklilik for €110m to Dutch financial group ING.
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Eurizon holds onto Italian pension mandates
[12"15 CEST 17-06] ITALY - Eurizon Capital, the asset management business of Intesa Sanpaolo, has secured another mandate from an existing blue-chip clients to manage the Eurofer railway workers' scheme, at the same time as holding on the fixed-income portfolio it runs for Fonchim, the Italian chemical workers' pension scheme.
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APK turns to alternatives
[15:00 CEST 17-06] AUSTRIA – The €2.4bn Austrian multi-employer Pensionskasse APK is looking for alternatives to “level out increasing volatility in the current market environment”, the fund's head Christian Böhm told IPE today.
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Lords warned of 'qualifying earnings' risk
[15:40 CEST 17-06] UK –Professional bodies representing the UK pensions industry have collectively warned changes are needed to the current Pensions Bill because the current definition of ‘qualifying earnings’ limit creates a benefits chasm between the proposed personal accounts and existing employer-based schemes.
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UN's doubles RI standards' signatories
[16:00 CEST 17-06] GLOBAL – Signatories to the Principles of Responsible Investing, drafted by two agencies of the United Nations (UN), have more than doubled so far in 2008 to 381 participants.
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Parmalat investors launch new European legal action
[16:15 CEST 17-06] EUROPE – Institutional investors are backing a group of 4,000 Parmalat investors who lost money in the Italian dairy firm’s collapse by launching legal action against certain banks and international auditors in the case.
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Funds critical of non-cap-weighted indices
[16:30 CEST 17-06] EUROPE – A panel of institutional investors have expressed its doubt about the added value of non-cap-weighted indices such as fundamental indices.
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Bank withdraws Romanian pension business
ROMANIA – MKB Romexterra has quit the newly-created Romanian occupational pension sector because there are too few participants in its fund.
