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

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SNS Reaal buys Dutch and Belgian Swiss Life

2007-11-19T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CET 19-11] NETHERLANDS/BELGIUM - The €83bn bank-insurer SNS Reaal is to acquire the Dutch and Belgian businesses of Swiss Life in a €1.5bn (€2.09bn) deal.
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IPE Awards: 130/30 craze is "overplayed"

2007-11-19T14:45:00Z

[15:45 CET 19-11] GLOBAL – The hype around long-short investment products, such as 130/30 strategies, is very much overplayed, delegates at the annual IPE Awards in Vienna were told.
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Asset managers launch to tap market uncertainty

2007-11-19T14:30:00Z

[15:30 CET 19-11] UK – Two new investment houses are entering the UK institutional market with services aimed at the European pension funds arena.
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Hewitt eyes risk as Watson Wyatt looks to DC

2007-11-19T14:15:00Z

[15:15 CET 19-11] UK/EUROPE - Consultancy firm Watson Wyatt has unveiled a pension provider research database services detailing how schemes operate across Europe, at the same time as rival firm Hewitt is turning its attention to enhancing pension funds' risk and reward potential.
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Philips fund fraud brings calls for transparency

2007-11-16T15:10:00Z

[16:10 CET 16-11] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch Association of Property Participants (VVP) has called for more transparency around property transactions, to prevent fraud such as that now being investigated at the company pension scheme of electronics giant Philips.
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Building scheme to grant full indexation

2007-11-16T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CET 16-11] NETHERLANDS - The industry-wide pension fund for the building industry BPF Bouw has announced it will fully index the pension claims and benefits next year.
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IPE Awards: ABP/Cordares will bring new ideas to Italy – Frijns

2007-11-16T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CET 16-11] NETHERLANDS/ITALY – The Italian pension fund industry could develop more towards the Dutch model, Jean Frijns, consultant to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has suggested.
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IPE AWARDS: Politicians fail to understand pensions

2007-11-16T14:45:00Z

[15:45 CET 16-11] EUROPE – Politicians lack the basic financial knowledge for meaningful dialogue with pension funds, delegates at an IPE seminar in Vienna heard.
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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).
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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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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: 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: 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 – 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: 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: 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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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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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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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.