All articles by Meagan Rees – Page 2
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Thornton named MD of Gazelle pensions business
UK - Paul Thornton, former Watson Wyatt director and senior industry figure, has been appointed managing director of the pensions arm of specialist and independent financial advisory firm Gazelle.
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FRR launches search for consultant
FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites' - the €28.1bn French Pensions Reserve Fund – plans to hire an external provider of performance measurement services. .
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Church of England to debate pension revamp
UK – New plans to increase pension contributions, cut benefits and raise the retirement age will be debated by the General Synod on Sunday in a bid to solve the Church of England’s pension crisis.
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Skandia’s Macleod to head €36bn division
UK – Jamie Macleod, chief executive of Skandia Investment Management (SIML), is to head Skandia UK’s new asset management division – a consolidation of its investment, fund group and life arms.
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Aon to administer Allianz Cornhill; operations manager exits
UK – UK general insurance giant Allianz Cornhill has appointed Aon Consulting as administrator of its £438m (€631m) closed defined benefit pension fund.
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AP4 appoints new managing director
SWEDEN - The roughly SEK180.2bn (€19.2bn) Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) has named Skandia Life chief investment officer Mats Andersson as its new managing director to succeed current MD Thomas Halvorsen, who is due to retire.
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AP3 may disinvest in Yahoo!
GLOBAL – The roughly SEK175.8bn (€19.2bn) Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) has not ruled out withdrawing its equity investment in Yahoo! following reports implicating the global online network in human rights violations.
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UK Govt should help local schemes with LDI
UK – The UK government should take action over local authority pension schemes' liabilities, according to a statement by F&C Asset Management.
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IPE-QUEST: European scheme screens for management services
EUROPE – A European pension fund is searching for investment management services for tactical equity asset allocation mandates via IPE-QUEST (QN643).
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Perry goes to ITS, Lancaster to MPC and Elliott to Aon
UK – The former pensions head at the House of Commons, Carol Perry has been appointed as one of six directors at Independent Trustee Services.
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AP funds agree joint SRI tender
SWEDEN – Four of Sweden’s six buffer funds have for the first time jointly agreed to tender for ethical and environmental analysis and advice.
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EU fund industry ‘outdated’
EUROPE – The EU fund industry is not correctly equipped to respond to the challenges of strong competition for investor savings and a rapidly evolving demand for investment products, according to a report to the European Commission.
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Wiltshire tenders €1.4bn custody brief
UK – The roughly £1bn (€1.4bn) Wiltshire County Council pension fund is tendering for a new global custodian.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
