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UK actuarial standards board chair named
UK – Former Laurentian Financial Group chief executive Paul Seymour has been appointed chairman of the UK’s new actuarial standards board.
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OECD global pension forum postponed
GLOBAL – A forum on global pensions organized by the OECD and the new International Organisation of Pension Supervisors has been postponed.
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ATP named best European pension fund 2005
EUROPE – Denmark´s ATP has been named overall Best European Pension Fund in 2005 at the annual IPE Awards in Berlin. It was also named Best European Public Pension Fund as well as scooping the top award for Denmark and risk management.
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MEAG targets third-party growth
GERMANY – MEAG, the asset management arm of reinsurance giant Munich Re, plans to expand its third-party business by between 25-30% annually, according to Robert Helm, managing director at MEAG responsible for third-party business.
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ABP opts for ORTEC performance system
NETHERLANDS - Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, the Dutch civil service scheme, has chosen Pearl, ORTEC's performance and risk management system.
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Shier to chair Groupe Consultatif pensions group
EUROPE – Hewitt’s Philip Shier has taken over as chairman of the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen’s Pensions Committee from Watson Wyatt’s Paul Thornton.
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PIMCO boosts its Swiss team
SWITZERLAND – Specialist fixed-income manager PIMCO has appointed Joachim Suter to the position of Swiss head of institutional business development.
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‘Fully funded’ may not mean that, says Maher
EUROPE - The European pensions directive’s requirement that IORPs be “fully funded” does not mean exactly that, Irish pensions regulator Anne Maher told the IPE Multipensions Conference in Amsterdam.
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Levensloop for self-employed reconsidered
NETHERLANDS – Dutch Social Affairs minister Aart Jan de Geus is again to look at the possibilities of creating a ‘levensloop’, or life course, scheme for the self-employed.
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Loss of key people impacts Norway’s Petrol Fund
AMSTERDAM – The loss of key people is the main reason why fund managers are fired by the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, according to its chief executive Knut Kjær.
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EU sees common pensions and market regulation
EUROPE – The European Commission says the European pensions, banking and securities regulatory committees will deliver “common decision-making and enforcement” within five years.
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Buck’s investment research head Treich exits
UK – Rob Treich, head of investment research at Buck Consultants, has left to join Mercer Investment Consulting.
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PGGM consortium buys €1bn real estate portfolio
NETHERLANDS – Dutch health care fund PGGM is part of a consortium that is buying retailer Vendex KBB’s real estate portfolio in a sale-and-lease-back agreement.
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Hermes plans commodity fund for pension schemes
UK - Hermes Pensions Management is planning to launch an index commodity fund exclusively for pension schemes early next year.
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Meeting set to debate 26th pensions regime
EUROPE – The so-called 26th regime for pan-European pensions is set to be discussed in a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels next week.
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Lloyd’s scheme opts for Northern Trust
UK – The £365m (€534m) Lloyd’s Superannuation Fund has awarded an exclusive global custody and performance measurement brief to Northern Trust.
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EU support needed for 'new' Europe
Much more co-ordinated action is needed at EU level to speed up pension reforms in the new member states, which are likely to suffer from an even greater demographic imbalance than “old” Europe, a conference in Brussels heard on November 14. The new member states were also told how they ...
