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NewsGerman scheme invests in VC arm of cooperative banking group
Government plans to channel institutional investors’ capital towards start-ups, as the number of venture capital deals sunk by 25% last year
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AnalysisIPE DACH Briefing: Providers sharpen DC capabilities as private markets debate widens
The number of European Long-Term Investment Funds and exchange-traded funds is expected to rise within German corporate pension schemes
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NewsBVV expands DC offering as doubts grow over Germany’s pension reform
DC plans are gaining traction, says Marco Herrmann, chair of BVV, the pension provider for Germany’s financial sector
White papersMacro brief: What could a China shock 2.0 mean for Europe?
High US tariffs make it more likely a bigger share of China’s industrial overcapacity finds its way to Europe. This would benefit European consumers by lowering inflation and boosting real incomes. But without any trade response from Brussels, it could squeeze domestic production and to counter that, targeted trade defence measures may be required.
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NewsFrieslandCampina in €1.5bn buyout deal with Achmea Pension & Life
The deal covers pension assets of approximately 8,000 (former) employees of Friesland Foods and FrieslandCampina
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NewsItalian fund overhauls strategy, awards €1.6bn in mandates
Latest round of manager appointments follows a broader decision by BCC CRA to diversify portfolios via new ‘specialist and balanced world mandates’
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NewsAlecta resumes efforts to find a chair, as Magnus Hall wins FSA approval
Swedish pensions giant announces Hall approved by watchdog, paving the way for his nomination and election
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NewsPIC completes first transaction under streamlined service Mosaic
The buy-in deal for the General Council of the Bar Pension and Life Assurance Fund is worth £20m and covers its 103 members
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Country ReportItalian pension funds consolidation grinds to a halt
Mergers between pension funds have been too few to have an impact on the Italian pension industry
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AnalysisIPE DACH Briefing: Swiss to vote on second pillar reform
Plus: Overestimated expenses by FSIO prompt call for Rossini’s resignation; Höchster scheme investing in start-ups
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NewsItaly’s Banca Etica expands business into ESG asset management
The bank is stripping current external asset manager Anima of its mandate to manage the mutual funds of Etica SGR, the bank’s asset management arm
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De Grave to chair PGGM cooperative
NETHERLANDS - The board of the PGGM cooperative has appointed Frank de Grave as its new chairman.
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NewsDutch Pension Co-operative goes out of business
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch Pension Co-operative – established in 2007 as a joint service provider for pension funds – has gone into liquidation.
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Co-operative could provide pensions solace – Santing
[16:35 CET 09-02] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds should join forces as co-operatives to prevent being forced further into short-term thinking, according to Gerald Santing, former director of the Netherlands Authority of the Financial Markets (AFM).
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Co-operative fund on diversification streak
[16:28 CEST 05/06] UK - The new £5.5bn career average Co-operative Group Pension Scheme is adjusting its equity/bond split in favour of diversification into currency, commodities and infrastructure.
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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.
White papersReal Estate House View: United Kingdom - Second half-vear 2024
Economic discourse shifted over the second quarter, following the announcement of an early UK general election on 4 July. Polls were largely suggestive of a landslide victory for Labour. Consequently, the announcement of a Labour win had little impact on financial markets, with sterling, equity markets, and gilt yields broadly unchanged.
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Bavarian cooperative fund spreads its wings
[16:30 CEST 03-09] GERMANY – The €270m pension fund of the Bavarian cooperative Pensionskasse der Genossenschaftsorganisation VVaG has said it will expand beyond its Bavarian borders to target companies across the whole of Germany.
White papersTowards a new set of fiscal rules in Europe: an investor view
In the current high-inflation regime, the use of fiscal space must: (1) be rule-based; and (2) preserve the possibility of a cooperative game between monetary and budgetary policies. This use of fiscal space should also help manage investors’ expectations, in order to minimise the risk of ‘sunspot equilibria’, where investors’ beliefs cause prices to diverge from fundamentals.
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NewsAPG and Rabobank invest €800m in new impact loans
The investment has been made through Colesco Capital, a new Rabobank-owned investment platform with a focus on sustainable corporate loans
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