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NewsTNT fund in the red
[16:55 CET 16-02] NETHERLANDS – The pension fund of Dutch postal firm TNT has become the latest scheme to blame falling interest rates for much of its new underfunded status.
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Eureko gets €1bn capital boost
[16:45 CET 16-02] NETHERLANDS - Eureko’s capital position has been bolstered with a €1bn capital injection from its major shareholders Achmea Association and Rabobank Group, and talks could resume in the row concerning Poland’s PZU.
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NewsOxford drops TAA over poor performance
[17:00 CET 13-02] UK – Oxfordshire County Council has confirmed its £913m (€1.03bn) pension fund has disinvested from the Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) strategy run by UBS following poor performance.
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NewsBT sees March surplus reverse into deficit
[16:55 CET 13-02] UK – The UK’s largest pension fund has seen its assets shift under IAS19 accounting rules from a technical surplus of over £2bn (€2.16bn) in March 2008 into a deficit of £1.7bn by the end of last year because of the swing corporate bond pricing, according to ...
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Alecta drops 7.4% in 2008
[16:35 CET 13-02] SWEDEN – Alecta pension fund has reported a loss of 7.8% in 2008 although it claimed asset diversification had limited the decline in its portfolio.
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NewsMetallRente grows assets in difficult year
[12:00 CET 13-02] GERMANY – The MetallRente pension provider saw its assets grow by 4% to €1.4bn in a year when its Pensionsfonds posted a negative return of -16.1%.
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NewsThree Swedish pension funds report 'red light'
[17:00 CET 12-02] SWEDEN – The Finansinspektionen (FI), the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, has confirmed the buffer capital of Swedish pension funds declined at the end of 2008, and three funds reported a 'red light'.
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OECD calls for pension expansion despite $5.4trn loss
[16:55 CET 12-02] GLOBAL – Private pensions across the world lost $5.4trn between January and December 2008, up from $5trn in October 2008, driven mainly by returns on US pension funds, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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NewsRolls-Royce may inject cash despite pensions surplus
[16:40 CET 12-02] UK – Rolls-Royce, the engine manufacturer, has today revealed it may need to contribute even more to its defined benefits (DB) pensions arrangements over the coming year even though pension fund was technically in surplus under IAS19 accounting.
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NewsNPRF contributions to fund €7bn banking rescue (amended)
[13:30 CET 12-02] IRELAND – The Irish government has confirmed rescue of the banking sector will be financed through both existing National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) assets and contributions which would have been paid to the State pension fund over the next two years.
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Finnish funds fall an average 14%
[12:00 CET 11-02] FINLAND – The Finnish Pension Alliance TELA has revealed Finnish pension funds decreased in value by 14% last year as a result of their high exposure to equities.
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Jobs go as AP1 alters asset management model
[10:45 CET 11-02] SWEDEN – Första AP-fonden (AP1), the first Swedish national pension Fund, is making 20 people redundant and changing its asset management model, in response to the credit crunch, to focus on strategic asset allocation.
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VER may take 10% of local commercial paper
[16:30 CET 10-02] FINLAND – Valtion Eläkerahasto (VER), the state pension fund, has increased its allocation to commercial paper markets by €100m in February, although government plans to use it to help boost the economy could see it taking a 10% share of the market.
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Member sentiment ups ING Emeklilik's bond exposure
TURKEY – The €169m ING Emeklilik pension insurance company has increased its exposure to fixed income, prompted by prevailing market sentiment among its customers.
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IPE winner delivers positive return
[12:00 CET 10-02] NETHERLANDS - De Eendragt Pensioenfond, the pension fund-turned insurance company and winner of the highest accolade at last year’s IPE Awards, has bucked the current trend in Dutch pensions investment by delivering a 4.4% positive return in 2008.
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Swiss Pensionskassen are 'stable' – ASIP
[16:50 CET 09-02] SWITZERLAND – ASIP, the pension fund association, has claimed Swiss Pensionskassen system are “weathering the storm” of the market, just as the Social Democrats suggest measures to keep it that way.
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Half of PensPlan’s lines make gains
[16:30 CET 09-02] ITALY – Thirteen of the 22 investment lines offered as pensions investments by PensPlan achieved positive returns in what officials describe as conditions which were “difficult to register positive results”.
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Choppy waters improve January deficits
[15:00 CET 09-02] UK – The UK’s private sector final salary pension schemes saw a slight improvement in January as deficits reduced a fraction, according to calculations made by the Pension Protection Fund.
