All articles by Rachel Fixsen – Page 193
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NewsATP to push private equity fees
[13:00 CEST 10-04] EUROPE - Private equity fees have risen to unreasonable levels, according to ATP, Denmark’s giant labour market supplementary fund, but the fund sees scope for negotiating them down in the future.
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Unilever to close its Danish DB fund
[16:00 CEST 04-04] DENMARK - Unilever’s Danish subsidiary is closing its in-house pension fund operation next month, and the entire scheme is being outsourced to financial services group Nordea, according to the fund’s manager.
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FeaturesWaiting for a breakthrough
Investment consultants has seen little change since the 2003 reforms but actuaries find business is booming, says Rachel Fixsen
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Danish doctors’ pensions given positive diagnosis
DENMARK - The Danish pension fund for doctors, Lægernes Pensionskasse, made a 5.7% return on investments before tax last year, as the ‘less liquid’ assets drove the return.
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F&P slams talk of pensions contribution cap
[16:45 CET 14-03] DENMARK - Pensions and insurance industry association Forsikring &Pension has attacked proposals to place a cap on pension contributions, saying there is simply no reason to introduce one.
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Improved economy lifts PensionDanmark inflows
[16:15 CET 12-03] DENMARK - Danish labour market pension fund PensionDanmark saw contribution inflows grow by 13% last year, as the knock-on effects of higher employment, higher wages and higher contribution rates fed through.
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Size and diligence slow ATP's private equity shift
[15:55 CET 12-03] DENMARK – The ATP pension fund has only invested around half of the amount in private equity it originally intended seven years ago, largely because of the unexpectedly high volume of due diligence work it has had to do.
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FSP raises the ceiling on property
[15:20 CET 10-03] DENMARK - Finanssektorens Pensionskasse, the Danish pension scheme for financial sector workers, is adding a hefty slice of property exposure to the unit-linked scheme now used by all new members.
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Special ReportLearning to live with volatility
As pension funds adapt to a new regulatory structure and deal with market instability, asset managers are having to assess how funds may respond, writes Rachel Fixsen
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ATP succumbs to ethical pressure
[11:00 CET 06-03] DENMARK – Danish pensions giant ATP may change the way it makes and implements ethical investment choices, as a result of a review being launched in the wake of criticism about pension funds’ holdings in nuclear weapons firms.
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Industriens backs away from cluster bombs
[11:30 CET 05-03] DENMARK - Industriens Pension has become the latest pension scheme to offload investments in the producers of cluster bombs, following public focus in Denmark on the ethics of profiting from such companies.
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The rise of the specialist adviser
Rachel Fixsen charts the emergence of niche consultants and advisers in the pensions advice market
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FeaturesThe consulting kaleidoscope
Investment consultants, asset managers and investment banks are increasingly operating on each other’s territory. Rachel Fixsen charts the overlapping boundaries in the advice market and canvasses views on how potential conflicts of interest can be managed
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Dividing core tasks
The increasingly complexity of the pensions environment is driving trustees to look at outsourcing more of their fund services. Rachel Fixsen reports
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A false sense of security
Nearly half of the Swedish public is labouring under a misconception about how money in their first pillar pension scheme is invested, according to a recent survey. The Premium Pensions Authority (PPM) runs the DC portion of Sweden’s first pillar provision. How the 2.5% of salary directed into it is ...
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AP Pension sees asset growth, despite returns fall
[14:00 CET 28-02] DENMARK - Danish independent pensions provider AP Pension saw its pension contributions surge last year, thanks to inflows of bulk new business won from several new corporate customers, the organisation said.
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Søbjerg Nielsen departs PFA
[16:35 CET 27-02] DENMARK - Danish pension fund PFA has announced Niels Søbjerg Nielsen has resigned as its group director, but all those involved remain tight-lipped about the reason for his departure.
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Danish pensions make positive gains
DENMARK - Growth in Danish pensions assets slowed significantly last year because turbulent financial markets, but asset levels still rose by between three and four percent, according to figures from the Danish Insurance Association, Forsikring & Pension.
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Nordea claims investment turnaround despite outflows
[16:00 CET 13-02] SCANDINAVIA - Nordea Investment Management's assets under management shrank by €5.8bn in 2007. This was mainly because of market depreciation in the wake of the equities downturn, the firm said, but also due to net outflow of €1.7bn.
