All IPE articles in November 2007 (Online) – Page 6
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True pension cost "higher than realised" – Waddingham
[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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Open architecture is the pensions future – Philip Neyt
[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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Norway fund pushes for more active management
[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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Montae plans governance centre
[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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Solvency II "will kill DB plans" - Blake
[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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Pensionsinfo presses for transparency
[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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Mercer study warns of European 'hybrid' costs
[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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£718m fund extends BNY Mellon brief
[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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Pan-Euro funds should not be competitive - Gabellieri
[15:30 CET 14-11] EUROPE – There should be one EU legal framework with national varieties instead of various European countries rivaling for the best location to domicile pan-European pension funds, suggests Bruno Gabellieri, secretary general of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection (AEIP).
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Umbrella organisations mull ESG platform
[15:00 CET 14-11] NETHERLANDS – VB, OPF and UvB, the three Dutch umbrella organisations for pension providers, are considering launching a platform for pension funds, to deal with social, ethical and environmental issues.
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Markets feed further DB surplus growth – PPF
[14:00 CET 14-11] UK – The UK's defined benefit pension funds had a collective surplus of around £53bn (€75bn) surplus at the end of October, the most recent index published by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has revealed.
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IPE-QUEST: $90m Swiss equity mandate
[13:00 CET 14-11] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss institutional investor is looking for a global sustainable equity manager via IPE-Quest.
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"Too early" for IORP review - Verhaegen
[12:30 CET 14-11] EUROPE – Plans by the European Commission to review the IORP pensions directive next spring were "not a sign of good regulatory governance" as the full implementation was only finalised this summer, Chris Verhaegen, secretary-general of the European Federation of Retirement Provision (EFRP) has told IPE.
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Wednesday people roundup
[11:30 CET 14-11] GLOBAL - People roundup: Hoechster Pensionskasse, Fidelity, Mercer, European Commission, Hewitt, Certinvest, Hymans, Barings, Northern Trust, Henderson, SWIP.
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Romanians rush into second pillar
ROMANIA – Over half of the Romanian workforce has already signed up for the new mandatory second-pillar pension system, including many for whom joining is not mandatory.
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Trustees 'lack objectivity' in judging sponsors
[16:00 CET 13-11] UK – Too few trustees doubt their company's ability to continue sponsoring the pension scheme, consultancy firm Hewitt has suggested.
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Emap transfers pensions to Paternoster
[15:45 CET 13-11] UK – Major British media conglomerate Emap has transferred its two largest defined benefit schemes to Mark Wood's pension buyout firm, Paternoster, the company announced today.
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Sweden and Netherlands climb European pension ranks
[15:30 CET 13-11] EUROPE – Denmark still has the best overall pensions system in Europe and the Netherlands and Sweden now sit in joint second place but Portugal and Italian governments need to act to improve people’s retirement incomes, according to a study by Aon Consulting.
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PGGM may withdraw China investment
[14:00 CET 13-11] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension fund giant PGGM may divest from Chinese oil firm Petrochina over its state-owned parent company’s Sudan operations, following public pressure over Sudan-linked investments.
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Increase focus on risk management - Eumedion
[13:00 CET 13-11] NETHERLANDS - Eumedion, the platform for institutional investors, has called on the Netherlands’ 75 largest listed companies to focus on risk management and the structure of remuneration policy, in a bid to improve their firms.
