All IPE articles in November 2005 (Online)
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Robeco names consultant relations head
NETHERLANDS – Robeco Asset Management, hit by a “disappointing” asset inflow in the first half, has hired a head of consultant relations.
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Mercer’s Dutch chief Verschuren to leave
NETHERLANDS – Frank Verschuren, general director of Mercer Human Resources Consulting Netherlands, is to leave the firm after 25 years.
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DeAM sees €15bn contractural trust market
GERMANY – Deutsche Asset Management expects that the German market for contractural trust arrangements (CTAs) – vehicles that permit companies to finance their pension liabilities off-balance sheet – to total at least €15bn in 2006.
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Petroleum Fund funds seven new mandates
NORWAY – The NOK1.28trn (€161.3bn) Petroleum Fund transferred capital into two fixed income and five equity mandates in the third quarter.
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20% of UK schemes invest in hedge funds - NAPF
UK – Around one in five large UK pension funds have some exposure to hedge funds, the National Association of Pension Funds says.
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Uncertainty over BaFin real estate stress tests
GERMANY – BaFin, the German financial services regulator, has yet to make a decision on whether to include real estate investments in the so-called “stress tests” that it requires German lifer insurers and insurance-tied pension funds to undergo.
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Number of Dutch pensioners set to surge
NETHERLANDS - The percentage of over 60’s within the Dutch population is to increase by more than half to a total of 30% within the next 25 years, recent figures of Statistics Netherlands have revealed.
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Grafische scheme taps Kas Bank for levensloop
NETHERLANDS - Kas Bank will implement the 'levensloop', or life course, scheme of the industry-wide pension fund for the printing industry, or the Grafische BedrijfsFondsen, as of January 1 2006, the scheme has announced.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss fund tenders €258m of debt
SWITZERLAND – Consultant MBS Capital Advice has tendered up to CHF400m (€258m) in euro zone and Swiss debt on behalf of a Swiss pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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UK’s Turner proposes funded national scheme
UK – Lord Turner’s Pension Commission has proposed the introduction of a funded national pension scheme with individual accounts, modelled in part on the Swedish PPM system.
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EADS taps Invesco for overtime accounts
GERMANY – European aerospace and defence giant EADS has confirmed that Invesco’s German arm will set up and manage so-called “overtime accounts” for all its employees in Germany.
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Dutch in line with pension directive – de Geus
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch pensions legislation has been fully brought in line with the EU’s directive on occupational pension schemes, Social Affairs’ minister Aart Jan de Geus has announced.
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BASF’s Belgian pension director steps down
BELGIUM – Sven Van Wichelen, director of the Belgian pension fund for German chemical giant BASF, is stepping down as of 1 December, the fund has confirmed.
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Multinationals wary of UK pension levies
UK – High Pension Protection Fund levies and the “illogical and unfair” risk assessment calculations could drive multinational companies out of the UK, according to market commentators.
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Fortis creates €6bn multi-management arm
EUROPE - Fortis Investments says it has set up a new multi-management business with around €6bn in assets under management.
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Bank of NY investment manager head exits
EUROPE – Philippe Seyll, head of investment managers for Continental Europe at the Bank of New York, has left to join Deutsche Boerse’s clearing and settlement operation Clearstream.
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Sweden's AP2 names new chief executive
SWEDEN – Andra AP-fonden, the SEK173bn (€18.2bn) Second Swedish National Pension Fund or AP2, has appointed Eva Halvarsson as chief executive.
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ABP capital markets chief Straatman leaves
EUROPE – Jan Straatman, chief investment officer for capital markets at ABP Investments, is to leave to take up a new CIO position at Pearl Group – entrepreneur Hugh Osmond’s life assurance fund investment vehicle.
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Swiss tap Watson for rail, postal pensions advice
SWITZERLAND – The Swiss ministry of finance has appointed consulting firm Watson Wyatt to help it assess solutions to problems at the rail and postal pension funds.
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SEI sees 25% European growth
EUROPE – SEI, the US-based multi-manager fund provider, expects to grow its business in Europe by 25% annually, with nearly all of that growth taking place in the UK, its managing director for Europe says.
