All IPE articles in October 2007 (Online) – Page 10

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    European Parliament hires Aon for controversial second study

    2007-10-02T11:21:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 02-10] EUROPE – The European Parliament will pay Aon Consulting €36,000 for a full actuarial study of the voluntary supplementary pension fund for MEPs.

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    Shell to take contributions holiday

    2007-10-01T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 01-10] UK – Trustees of oil company Shell's UK pension plan have agreed to stop company contributions for the time being.

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    Pensions bodies urge minister to refine indexation

    2007-10-01T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 01-10] NETHERLANDS - The umbrella organisations for pension funds and insurers and the Labour Foundation (STAR) have accused Social Affairs’ minister Piet Hein Donner of being in too much of a hurry to develop the indexation label.

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    'If you don’t know it, don’t buy it' – Laboul

    2007-10-01T15:45:00Z

    [16:45 CEST 01-10] EUROPE – Pensions funds should be more prudent to prevent losses on asset-backed securities related for instance to the recent US subprime credit crunch, says the OECD’s Andre Laboul.

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    OECD to revise governance guidelines

    2007-10-01T14:50:00Z

    [16:50 CEST 01-10] EUROPE – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will revise its guidelines on the governance of pension funds, IPE has learned.

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    Severance pay for self-employed

    2007-10-01T14:00:00Z

    [15:00 CEST 01-10] AUSTRIA – Approximately 500,000 self-employed people will be granted access to the severance pay funds from next year.

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    Nest outperforms Swiss funds in SRI approach

    2007-10-01T13:30:00Z

    [14:30 CEST 01-10] SWITZERLAND – Nest, a CHF600m (€361m) Swiss corporate pension fund, is outperforming competitors with its strict socially responsible investment (SRI) approach, according to Nest chief executive Felix Pfeifer.

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    UBS changes top team and cuts 1500 jobs

    2007-10-01T13:00:00Z

    [14:00 CEST 01-10] SWITZERLAND – UBS has announced a major reshuffle of its senior management following the recent market turbulence.

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    Equities returned 6.85 in Q2 - DNB

    2007-10-01T10:30:00Z

    [11:30 CEST 01-10] NETHERLANDS - Equities were the best performing asset class for pension funds during the second quarter, returning an average 6.85%, pensions supervisor De Nederlandsche Bank has announced.