All IPE articles in October 2012 (Online) – Page 3
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Industry organisations accuse Brussels of ignoring EIOPA advice
EUROPE – Group of Eight calls on authority to conduct additional IORP Directive impact exercises.
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Study reveals gulf between employers, employees' retirement expectations
GLOBAL – More than half of employees expect to work beyond retirement age, survey shows.
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Dwindling reserves prompt Agirc-Arrco to review funding
FRANCE – Social partners at French second-pillar fund to meet next month.
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EDHEC, Natixis launch research chair on infrastructure debt
EUROPE – Partnership aims to explore risk/return characteristics, diversification benefits.
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Dutch Pensions Federation calls for 'random' admin checks
NETHERLANDS – Recommendation follows DNB report highlighting 'considerable' discrepancies.
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UK PPF sees returns of 25% boosted by hedging activities
UK – Investment returns at Pension Protection Fund boost funding to 106%.
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Brussels should allow DC pensions to invest in 'illiquid' funds – AREF
EUROPE – Association urges EC to keep illiquid real estate funds open to retail investors.
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Pensions compulsion would cause 'awful lot of trouble', Webb warns
UK – Pensions minister tells NAPF conference that industry has more pressing problems.
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Austria's VBV calls for separation of active, retired pension fund members
AUSTRIA – Having separate portfolios would help schemes adjust to low interest rates, CIO says.
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Nearly half of European insurers unready for Solvency II
EUROPE – Ernst & Young survey shows almost 90% of insurers would be prepared by 2015.
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Dutch asset manager APG to slash 800 jobs as part of 'change programme'
NETHERLANDS – Cuts to come in admin, collection, communications and IT.
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UK pensions minister proposes DB with 'no liability beyond employment'
UK – There is 'interest and demand' for defined ambition pensions, Steve Webb argues at NAPF annual conference.
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Mandate roundup: USS, Merseyside, Northern Trust, AllianceBernstein
EUROPE – USSIM provides £100m of inflation-linked financing to South East Water Finance.
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ATP's new head must be able to spearhead 'international expansion'
DENMARK – Successor to central bank-bound Lars Rohde must be a 'visionary' with a 'global outlook'.
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Funding ratio jumps to 99% at Dutch healthcare scheme PFZW
NETHERLANDS – Pension fund on track to avoid rights cut, but situation ‘remains tense’.
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UFR boost not enough to avoid rights cuts at Dutch schemes
NETHERLANDS – BpfBOUW bucks trend after coverage ratio jumps to 104.7% in third quarter.
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Merchant Navy pension fund frets over future of Old Section
UK – Deliberations over possible buyout, wind-up have been 'gut-wrenching', scheme head says.
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ESG roundup: Future Fund, AODP, Green Investment Bank
GLOBAL – Australia's largest pension fund too 'under-resourced' to consider climate change.
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PFA bows to political pressure on unit-link transparency
DENMARK – Danish pension fund publishes new key reporting figure for unit-link returns.
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UK schemes sign up to Pensions Infrastructure Platform
UK – Four more pension funds become founding members of scheme developed by PPF, NAPF.