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Dutch insurers see buyout market accelerate

2025-11-04T10:30:00Z

As funding ratios rise across the board, buyout deals have seen a growing number of Dutch company pension schemes show interest

German chemicals company de-risks with lump sum payments

2019-04-12T10:26:00Z

Employees respond positively as Henkel offers one-off payment to reduce DB liabilities

Henkel creates global fiduciary pensions structure

2009-04-27T15:00:00Z

[16:00 CEST 27-04] GLOBAL - Henkel, the Düsseldorf-based personal and consumer goods multinational, has completed what is thought to be the first global restructuring of pension schemes as a notional pooling structure and appointed three firms to manage its plans globally as custodian, fiduciary and risk manager.

Henkel to issue bonds for pensions

December 2005 (Magazine)

Henkel to issue bonds for pensions

2005-11-09T03:44:00Z

GERMANY – Consumer chemicals firm Henkel plans to create a contractural trust arrangement (CTA) for €1bn in German pension liabilities, yet will fund the CTA not with existing liquidity but with the proceeds of a bond issuance.

DeAM, Trinkaus in running for Henkel CTA

2005-12-14T03:26:00Z

GERMANY – Industry sources say Deutsche Asset Management and HSBC’s Trinkhaus Capital Management may be in line to advise chemicals firm Henkel on its planned contractual trust arrangement – an external fund to finance more than €1bn in pension liabilities.

Henkel fixes focus on future

June 2001 (Magazine)

Henkel joins new chemical sector fund

2002-05-03T03:45:00Z

GERMANY- The German chemical group Henkel has decided to make the new Chemical sector Pensionsfond available to its German workforce, says the group’s benefits manager Wolfgang Lorz, based at headquarters in Dusseldorf.

Henkel: still happy in a 60-year relationship

November 1998 (Magazine)

Funding level of DAX schemes reaches record high – WTW study

2022-03-25T14:48:00Z

Pension liabilities of DAX companies increased by only €3bn in 2021, or 0.7%, to €412bn, as the discount rate rose by 40 basis points to 1.20%

NN Group eyes Dutch €343bn corporate pension pot

2021-11-29T14:36:00Z

The group expects the DC pension market for insurance firms to double over the next few years

Re-balancing the rate of risk

January 2008 (Magazine)

Iain Morse looks at how two pension funds, Henkel and PME, are addressing risk in management of liabilities

New project tackles emissions reporting completeness [updated]

2018-11-09T11:21:00Z

100% Club aims to incentivise companies to commit to complete Scope 1 reporting

Handelsblatt Conference: De-risking comes to the fore as past costs loom large

May 2019 (Magazine)

German pension schemes reveal ambitious overhauls to reduce sponsor burdens; Generali moves to reassure over sale of insurance business to Viridium

Fixed Income – European investment grade: No sign of end for negative yields

January 2020 (Magazine)

Negative interest rates look set for a lengthy run in Europe, raising concerns about the long-term effects

Funding in a changed world

April 2009 (Magazine)

Liam Kennedy assesses the measures German companies are taking to address pension funding issues and future plan design

Deutsche Bahn pension fund cites onerous regulation for merger decision

2013-06-20T12:00:00Z

GERMANY – Managers say single Pensionskasse 'can no longer cope' with EU regulation.

PA Pension Trustees award fiduciary mandate

2009-09-30T13:45:00Z

[14:45 CEST 30-09] UK – PA Pension Trustees Ltd has become the latest pension fund to award a fiduciary mandate to investment manager BlackRock.

Mercer applauds DAX companies' ability to protect pension scheme funding

2012-03-20T11:30:00Z

GERMANY – Liabilities and assets grew by 4% in 2011, while funding levels remained stable.

Cookson appoints BlackRock as fiduciary of pension scheme

2010-10-04T10:45:00Z

UK – The Cookson Group has appointed BlackRock as fiduciary manager of its £460m defined benefit pension plan.