All articles by Rachel Fixsen – Page 193
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NewsDanish teachers fund invests 7% in forestry
[16:32 CEST 18-09] DENMARK - Lærernes Pension, the Danish teachers’ pension fund, has announced it now has almost 7% of assets invested in forestry, or DKK2bn of its DKK30bn AUM. The investment may now make it the most significant European institutional investor in the asset class in terms of asset ...
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NewsFSP and Lægernes roll-out DC plans
[16:00 CEST 18-09] DENMARK - Pension funds FSP and Lægernes are the latest in Denmark to create new defined contribution schemes to allow more members to take on more risk themselves rather than sticking to the safety of the traditional guaranteed return schemes.
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Danish pensions buoyed by investment returns
[17:20 CEST 02-09] DENMARK - Improved investment results have boosted returns at several of Denmark’s pension funds in the first half of the year, but weak workforce mobility and job losses have hit contribution and transfer income for some funds.
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Special ReportThe inexorable shift to DC
The move away from DB is a trend throughout Europe but the speed at which it occurs and the models adopted differ from country to country, Rachel Fixsen finds
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Nordea Liv & Pensions buys Alka Liv
[12:30 CEST 03-07] DENMARK - Nordea Liv & Pension, the life and pensions arm of the Nordic finance group, has bought Alka Liv - a life insurer with DKK1bn (€134m) under management.
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FeaturesPension benefit indexation rules
Rachel Fixsen provides an overview of defined benefit pension indexing rules in three European countries
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NewsCost-cutting to force Danish pensions mergers
[15:30 CEST 24-06] DENMARK - Denmark is likely to see a wave of mergers between pension funds in the next few years as smaller players jostle to cut costs, according to officials at Denmark’s giant ATP pension fund.
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Industriens eyes consolidation of small pension schemes
[15:10 CEST 18-06] DENMARK - Two of Denmark’s smaller pension funds are considering merging with the much larger Industriens Pension, in a deal which could boost Industrien’s assets by 13%.
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Danish pension charges could spark tax rise
[16:00 CEST 16-06] DENMARK - The Danish pensions industry could see some of its tax advantages cut if the government accepts a recommendation by the country’s Competition Commission.
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Danish returns dropped 75% in 2007
[16:05 CEST 13-06] DENMARK - Denmark’s pension schemes and life insurers suffered a 75% fall in investment returns last year, according to figures from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority.
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SEB's pension divisions fined for regulatory failures
[16:00 CEST 04-06] SWEDEN - Financial services firm SEB has been fined SEK30m (€3.2m) by the regulator for failing to have risk or compliance controls in place at its two pensions businesses, and been given three months to put things right.
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Pensions 'tax abuse' ceiling condemned
[15:45 CEST 03-06] DENMARK - Forsikring & Pension (F&P), the Danish insurance and pensions industry association, has branded proposals to impose a ceiling of DKK100,000 (€13,407) a year on Danish pensions contributions as "unnecessary and damaging".
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Special ReportSqueezed from all sides
Rachel Fixsen reviews the regulatory pressures facing European pension funds
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BT injects £350m into commodities
[16:55 CEST 22-05] UK - The BT Pension Scheme has shifted £250m (€315m) of commodities investment into a new index fund which targets extra returns by managing futures rolling and cash collateral differently.
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Good quality property strategy will 'shield' FSP
[14:00 CEST 22-05] DENMARK - Danish pension fund FSP is expecting to avoid the worst of the market rout by investing in good quality property and avoiding the most volatile market segments.
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Swedish architects survey pensions cooperative
[16:25 CEST 08-05] SWEDEN - Arkitekternas Pensionskassa, the Swedish pension fund for architects, is in talks with four other pensions players with a view to setting up some form of cooperation that would enable them all to cut costs.
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Danish personal pensions see contributions dip
[15:30 CEST 08-05] DENMARK - The amount of money going into Danish personal pensions in Denmark fell last year for the first time since 1999, depressed by the unstable economic conditions, according to Danish insurance association F&P.
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NewsEquities push PensionDanmark into negative territory
[13:30 CEST 01-05] DENMARK - Labour market pension fund PensionDanmark suffered a negative return on its investments of -3.9% in the first quarter, hit by steep falls in the international equities markets.
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NewsDanica and Nordea pensions hit negative returns
[12:30 CEST 01-05] DENMARK - Danica Pension, the pensions arm of Danske Bank, saw a negative return on its investments in the first quarter of -1.3%, and the business made a pre-tax loss of DKK420m (€56.2m) largely as a result of this.
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FeaturesSaying it right
The complexity of pension investments makes communication very important. Does the Dutch uniform pension statement offer a solution? Rachel Fixsen reports
