All IPE articles in October 2007 (Online) – Page 8

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Wednesday people roundup

2007-10-24T11:30:00Z

[12:30 CEST 24-10] People roundup: GLOBAL – SEB, SGAM, Schroders, Santander, Newton, Gartmore, Northern Trust, Morse, Pictet Asset Management.
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UBS expands in France

2007-10-24T12:00:00Z

[13:00 CEST 24-10] GERMANY/SWITZERLAND – Swiss bank UBS is set to buy German Commerzbank's French asset management arm Caisse Centrale de Réescompte (CCR) for €435m.
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PwC to advise Norwegian fund on real estate

2007-10-24T12:30:00Z

[13:30 CEST 24-10] NORWAY – The Oslo-based branch of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was awarded the contract for advising the NOK2trn (€250bn) Norwegian government pension fund on tax issues related to real estate investments.
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Collectum computer crash forces ITP extension

2007-10-24T13:00:00Z

[14:00 CEST 24-10] SWEDEN – Collectum, the online services responsible for pooling money within Sweden’s white-collar pension scheme ITP, has extended the period within which people decide where to invest their money because of technical difficulties.
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Swedish firm eyes fiduciary trail

2007-10-24T13:30:00Z

[14:30 CEST 24-10] NETHERLANDS – The €400m Dutch scheme of the Swedish hygiene goods and paper multinational Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) is contemplating fiduciary management, IPE has learned.
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Returns reveal right move for FRR

2007-10-24T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CEST 24-10] FRANCE – The €33.8bn French reserve fund FRR said reduced exposure to equities and no holdings in instruments directly affected by the credit crunch had helped bring its performance for the last nine months to 5.7%.
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Horeca to grant 3% indexation

2007-10-24T15:30:00Z

[16:30 CEST 24-10] NETHERLANDS - PH&C, the €2.2bn pension fund for the Dutch hotel and catering sector, has granted its participants an indexation of 3% next year.
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Flemish authorities create new pension funds

2007-10-25T11:00:00Z

[12:00 CEST 25-10] BELGIUM – The Flemish municipality Balen has tendered a mandate for a new pension fund for its civil servants.
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PPF seeks help to clean up scheme data

2007-10-25T11:00:00Z

[12:00 CEST 25-10] UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is tendering for services to review data of incoming pension schemes.
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Academics find ESG helps performance

2007-10-25T11:30:00Z

[12:30 CEST 25-10] GLOBAL – Applying environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) to your portfolio has a positive impact on performance, the United Nations and Mercer has found.
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AP3 signs enhanced managers

2007-10-25T14:00:00Z

[15:00 CEST 25-10] SWEDEN – The SEK227.7bn (€25bn) third Swedish buffer fund AP3 has selected 13 managers for enhanced indexing briefs.
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Germans up support for compulsory second pillar

2007-10-25T14:30:00Z

[15:30 CEST 25-10] GERMANY – Making occupational pension provision compulsory would help ease fears over poverty at retirement, an increasing number of Germans agree.
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IPE-QUEST: German pension fund posts equity brief

2007-10-25T14:45:00Z

[15:45 CEST 25-10] GERMANY – A German corporate pension scheme is looking for an equity manager for a €150m mandate, using IPE-Quest.
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German Cabinet passes 'acting in concert' bill

2007-10-25T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CEST 25-10] GERMANY – The government today passed a disputed bill for more transparency of investments in the German market.
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Storebrand investors back pensions bid

2007-10-25T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CEST 25-10] NORWAY – A majority of shareholders of Norwegian life insurer Storebrand last night backed proposals for the NOK13.6bn (€1.7bn) take-over bid for Swedish pension group SPP.
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Pension Corp delays Telent bid

2007-10-25T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CEST 25-10] UK – Pensions Insurance Corporation (PIC) has secured a seven-day extension to its bid to acquire telecoms group Telent and its £3bn (€4.3bn) pension scheme.
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Bank of Ireland secures LifeBalance deal

2007-10-25T15:58:00Z

[16:58 CEST 25-10] IRELAND – The Bank of Ireland has agreed a deal with union officials to introduce a hybrid DB/DC pension scheme, following the closure of its final salary scheme last year.
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Ombudsman warns pension schemes are 'misleading' members

2007-10-26T10:00:00Z

[11:00 CEST 26-10] IRELAND - The Pensions Ombudsman has alleged "communication in the pensions industry is sometimes misleading", leaving members uncertain about their contributions and potential benefits.
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Resolution dumps Friends for marriage with new suitors

2007-10-26T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CEST 26-10] UK – Financial services group Resolution plc has dropped plans to merge with UK life assurance group Friends Provident and has agreed selling the company to Standard Life, but rival Pearl has also come back at the 11th hour with a fresh takeover bid topping Standard’s offer.
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Outgoing gov't pulls PZU privatization

2007-10-26T15:15:00Z

POLAND – The Polish government today withdrew an agreement to float the state-controlled insurance giant PZU on the stock market.