More ESG news – Page 316
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ABP says it could begin hiring again in 2005
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, says it could begin hiring new staff in 2005 – following a hiring freeze that has been in place since 2002.
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French reserve fund appoints auditors
FRANCE – The supervisory board of the France’s 16 billion-euro Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites has appointed KPMG and Constantin & Associés as auditors.
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Danish funds sign agreement with SRI firm Eiris
DENMARK – Socially responsible investing consultant Ethical Investment Research Services has signed agreements with two Danish pension funds, Pensionskassernes Administration and Magistrenes Pensionskasse.
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Only one in five Spanish trustees has good financial knowledge - Mercer
Only 20% of the trustees of second pillar pension schemes in Spain consider that they have a good level of financial knowledge.
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SRI firms Innovest and Ethix in research deal
SRI firms Innovest and Ethix have signed a research distribution deal
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Dutch funds show “negligible” interest in CSR
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds show “negligible” interest in corporate social responsibility, according to a survey of Dutch investor relations managers.
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French reserve fund to focus SRI effort in Europe
FRANCE – The 16 billion-euro French reserve fund says it will concentrate its socially responsible investing approach on large-cap European equities at first.
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CoreRatings hires EBRD’s Nazari as research head
UK – Corporate governance and socially responsible investing consultant CoreRatings has hired an environmental specialist from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as head of research.
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Ethix in talks with institutions, Wassum tie
SWEDEN – Socially responsible investing consultant Ethix has confirmed it may sell a stake to institutional investors – and that it has entered a cooperation with Hewitt affiliate Wassum.
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FTSE and ISS to create governance indices
EUROPE – Index provider FTSE has teamed up with US governance ratings group ISS to provide corporate governance indices.
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SRI research not meeting institutional needs - report
Research organisations that specialise in socially responsible investment (SRI) are failing to provide relevant information to institutional investors, according to a report...
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PIRC spells out shareholder voting guidelines
UK - PIRC, the Pensions Investment Research Consultants, has issued its new institutional shareholder voting guidelines for 2004....
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Former Unilever pension chief joins SCGOP
NETHERLANDS – The former managing director of the 2.9 billion-euro Unilever Progress pension fund, Jos Van Niekerk, has taken over as director of the Dutch corporate governance foundation SCGOP.
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UK’s PIRC wants exec pensions “mess” untangled
UK – The head of corporate governance firm Pensions Investment Research Consultants has called for the “mess” surrounding the disclosure of executives’ pension entitlements to be untangled.
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Hewitt hires Swiss pension fund body’s Walser
SWITZERLAND – Hewitt Associates has hired the president of the Swiss Pension Fund Federation, Hermann Walser.
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EU consults on bosses’ pay and pensions
EUROPE – The European Commission wants institutional shareholders to be involved in a consultation on corporate directors’ pay and pensions.
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Lintstock launches governance site for pensions
UK - Research and advisory firm Lintstock has launched a service to help pension fund trustees handle information on asset managers’ governance and voting policies.
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Bolkestein says growth key for pension systems
NETHERLANDS – The European Commission’s Frits Bolkestein has said that pension systems would not remain feasible without economic growth.
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European governance principles unveiled
EUROPE – The “equitable treatment of shareholders” is one of the tenets in a new set of European corporate governance principles unveiled by a group of consultants today.
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Myners wants top UK funds to define ownership
UK - Paul Myners has recommended that the top 200 UK pension funds move to a more specific definition of share ownership.
