All IPE articles in October 2005 (Online)
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Dutch doctors' fund names new CIO
NETHERLANDS - The €11bn Doctors Pension Funds Services has hired TKP Pensioen's Jan Willem Baan as its new chief investment officer.
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We need to rethink pensions – EU’s Spidla
EUROPE – Vladimir Spidla, the European Union’s employment and social affairs commissioner, has called for a rethink of pension schemes and retirement – adding that early retirement is a shortsighted answer.
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UK pension regulator finds “very poor” standards
UK – The Pensions Regulator has surveyed occupational pension schemes in the UK and found a lot of scope for raising standards – with often very poor standards seen in defined contribution.
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MN Services’ Rademaker quits to join Kempen
NETHERLANDS – MN Services’ managing director of asset management, Hans Rademaker, is leaving to become managing director of fiduciary management at Kempen & Co.
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PGGM’s levensloop arm in outsourcing move
NETHERLANDS – PGGM’s new pension fund subsidiary Careon Levensloop has finalised a seven-year outsourcing contract with KAS Bank and Ordina.
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Pensions an issue in €10bn Boots merger
UK – Retailer Boots has confirmed that pension discussions are underway ahead of its proposed £7bn (€10.3bn) merger with Alliance UniChem.
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Watson, Mercer, Hewitt have UK “stranglehold”
UK – New research claims the “big three” firms – Watson Wyatt, Mercer and Hewitt - dominate the UK corporate pension consulting market.
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GlaxoSmithKline consolidates €6bn custody
EUROPE - Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has consolidated €6bn in custody with ABN Amro Mellon, according to the provider.
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ING completes €35m Slovakia pensions deal
SLOVAKIA – Dutch banking group ING has completed the previously announced €35m acquisition of Slovak pensions provider VSP Tatry Sympatia.
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Northern Trust has $4bn in pooling pipeline
EUROPE – Northern Trust says six multinational clients have committed around $4bn for pension pooling vehicles in Ireland and Luxembourg.
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Petroleum Fund influencing saving behaviour
NORWAY – The Norwegian central bank says the existence of the Petroleum Fund may be influencing Norwegians’ saving behaviour.
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IXIS Asset Management names Leroux as CIO
FRANCE – IXIS Asset Management has named SCOR Asset Management’s Véronique Leroux as its new chief investment officer.
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IPE-QUEST: Danish manager tenders high yield
DENMARK - Kirstein Finans has tendered an initial $100m in global high yield bonds on behalf of a Danish asset manager via IPE-Quest.
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Austrian association seeks 2nd-pillar boost
AUSTRIA – Pension fund association FVPK has urged the government to do more to boost corporate pensions, noting that only one-fifth of all Austrian workers have access to this pension – one of the lowest rates in the EU.
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Netherlands’ de Geus won’t touch pension rights
NETHERLANDS - Unless in case of ‘catastrophic circumstances’, Dutch social affairs minister Aart Jan de Geus won’t interfere in the acquired pension rights of the baby boom generation to benefit younger workers, he said.
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EU mulls action over pension directive
EUROPE – The European Commission is considering taking action against member states over the transposition of the new directive on occupational pensions.
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German fund association BVI names chairman
GERMANY – Fund industry association BVI has elected Markus Riess, chief executive of dit, Allianz’s retail fund arm, as its new chairman for the next three years.
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Railpen chief resisting flight to bonds
UK – Chris Hitchen, chief executive of the £15.5bn (€23bn) Railways Pension Trustee Co., Railpen, says that pension schemes’ shift to fixed income was an “overreaction”.
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European pooling set for lift-off – conference
EUROPE – Pension fund pooling vehicles are set for take-off in Europe despite a lack of tax harmony, according to a pension fund pooling conference held in London today.
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Robeco names DNB’s Hoogduin as chief economist
NETHERLANDS – Robeco, the asset management arm of Rabobank, has named De Nederlandsche Bank’s Lex Hoogduin to succeed Jaap van Duijn as chief economist.
