All IPE articles in November 2007 (Online) – Page 5

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£718m fund extends BNY Mellon brief

2007-11-14T14:45:00Z

[15:45 CET 14-11] UK – The £718m (€1bn) local authority pension fund of the London Borough of Islington has renewed a global custody mandate with Bank of New York Mellon for another two years.
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Mercer study warns of European 'hybrid' costs

2007-11-14T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CET 14-11] GLOBAL – Pension schemes will face increasing government intervention and higher costs has more and more pension arrangements are moving to defined contribution or hybrid systems, consultancy firm Mercer has claimed.
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Pensionsinfo presses for transparency

2007-11-14T15:15:00Z

[16:15 CET 14-11] DENMARK - The Danish pensions industry needs to tackle the issue of transparency and is the most pressing problem it faces right now, according to Pensionsinfo, the country’s comprehensive national pensions database.
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Solvency II "will kill DB plans" - Blake

2007-11-14T15:30:00Z

[16:30 CET 14-11] EUROPE – Applying Solvency II requirements to pension funding could be the “final nail in the coffin” for final salary schemes, director of the Pensions Institute Professor David Blake has told IPE.
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Montae plans governance centre

2007-11-15T10:00:00Z

[11:00 CET 15-11] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension fund consultancy Montae is planning to launch a governance centre for pension funds.
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Norway fund pushes for more active management

2007-11-15T11:00:00Z

[12:00 CET 15-11] NORWAY - The Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global is looking to hire more staff for its offices in Oslo, New York, Shanghai and London, in a push to widen its scope of active management.
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Open architecture is the pensions future – Philip Neyt

2007-11-15T11:30:00Z

[12:30 CET 15-11] BELGIUM – Philip Neyt, the head of the Belgian Pension Funds Association (BVPI-ABIP) and driving force behind Belgium legislative changes, foresees a future of open architecture pension funds and increased transnational cooperation.
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True pension cost "higher than realised" – Waddingham

2007-11-15T12:00:00Z

[13:00 CET 15-11] UK – The true cost of pensions could be twice the amount employers might initially have expected to see contributed to an individual’s retirement plan, according to Adrian Waddingham, senior partner at UK consultancy Barnett Waddingham.
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German pensions minister resigns

2007-11-15T13:45:00Z

[14:45 CET 15-11] GERMANY – German minister of labour and vice chancellor Franz Müntefering has resigned.
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Signing up to ESG is not enough - UNPRI

2007-11-15T14:00:00Z

[15:00 CET 15-11] GLOBAL – The United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) should filter through a signatory company and right through to the companies invested in, James Gifford, executive director at the UNPRI has urged.
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VB calls for "balanced approach" to SRI

2007-11-15T15:15:00Z

[16:15 CET 15-11] NETHERLANDS - Pension funds should keep a balanced approach to socially-responsible investment, and avoid the over-doing of do-gooding, according to Benne van Popta, chairman of the Association of Industry-wide Pension Funds (VB).
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IPE Awards: Small schemes should focus on strategy

2007-11-15T15:30:00Z

[16:30 CET 15-11] AUSTRIA – Small to medium-sized pension funds should focus more on their strategy, and less on portfolio management, the annual IPE Awards Seminar in Vienna was told today.
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IPE Awards: Fiduciary managers make market 'fairer' – Frijns

2007-11-15T15:30:00Z

[16:30 CET 15-11] EUROPE – Smaller pension funds will gain easier access to alternative asset classes thanks to fiduciary managers, Jean Frijns, consultant to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has suggested.
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IPE AWARDS: Full list of 2007 winners

2007-11-15T22:45:00Z

[23:45 CET 15-11] IPE AWARDS - One individual and 27 European pension funds were presented with awards tonight for excellence in pension fund management, at this year’s European Pension Fund Awards in Vienna.
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IPE AWARDS – Pensioenfonds KBC named Best European Fund

2007-11-15T22:45:00Z

[23:45 CET 15-11] IPE AWARDS – Belgium’s Pensioenfonds KBC was named Best European Pension Fund 2007 at the seventh annual IPE Awards ceremony in Vienna this evening.
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IPE AWARDS: Ambachtsheer honoured for industry contribution

2007-11-15T22:55:00Z

[23:55 CET 15-11] IPE AWARDS – Keith Ambachtsheer, the world-renowned expert in pensions, has been recognised for his services to the international pensions market with an Outstanding Industry Contribution award at this year’s IPE Awards in Vienna.
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IPE Awards: Fewer choices and hybrids are pensions future - Nijman

2007-11-16T11:30:00Z

[12:30 CET 16-11] EUROPE - Mandatory contributions, limited choices and nybrid schemes are the "optimum" future of pensions take-up in Europe, according to pensions academic Theo Nijman.
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IPE Awards: "Diversification may turn to contagion" warning (Updated)

2007-11-16T12:00:00Z

[13:00 CET 16-11] GLOBAL - Increasing globalisation means correlations between markets and returns of asset classes change frequently, Sudhir Rajkumar, head of the Pension Investment Partnership at the World Bank, has warned.
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IPE Awards: BNL fund to outsource real estate

2007-11-16T12:30:00Z

[13:30 CET 16-11] ITALY – The €970m pension fund of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is looking to outsource the management of its real estate portfolio.
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PensCorp secures Telent deal

2007-11-16T13:00:00Z

[14:00 CET 16-11] UK - Edmund Truell's Pension Corporation has finally managed to secure a deal to buy the former Marconi pension fund for £398m (€570m).