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Michelin Pension scheme completes £1.5bn buy-in with Aviva

2024-10-09T10:00:00Z

The transaction secures benefits of circa 15,000 scheme members

A wheel opportunity: Premium tyre makers use EVs to inflate margins

Reference Hub2025-09-12T16:00:00Z By Columbia Threadneedle Investments

The electric vehicle (EV) transition presents a significant opportunity for premium tyre manufacturers. EVs create unique demands on tyres that favour established industry leaders with advanced technological capabilities. At the same time, growing regulation and litigation on tyre particulate emissions, deforestation-risk rubber, and toxic tyre chemical compounds could reverse the market share growth of budget tyre entrants in Western markets. 

Bumper month for EU sustainability policy ends with Transition Benchmark proposal

2024-12-20T10:30:00Z

Platform on Sustainable Finance proposes two new Investing for Transition Benchmarks

UK roundup: PPI, KiwiSaver, Hymans Robertson, Michelin, LCP

2012-01-18T14:00:00Z

PPI research on auto-enrolment contributions in New Zealand show risk of levelling down.

Mandate roundup: Cornwall, JLT, NEST, LCP, Michelin Pension and Life Assurance

2012-08-02T10:45:00Z

UK – Cornwall local authority tenders £50m hedging mandate to offset inflation risk.

Michelin considers UK scheme closure

2007-05-01T15:54:52Z

UK – The French tyre manufacturer is considering to close the defined benefit scheme for its UK operations to future entrants and accruals as of 2009.

Michelin “sound” despite e2.9bn pension gap

2003-02-25T04:27:00Z

FRANCE – Tyre maker Michelin says it is “sound” despite announcing a 2.9 billion euro deficit in its pension and other post-retirement benefit plans.

France: Macron’s major pension reforms take effect

Top 1000 Pension Funds 2023

September sees the enactment of controversial retirement reforms passed by presidential decree earlier this year, bringing 42 occupational regimes together

European equities: The stock-pickers return

March 2015 (Magazine)

How can European equity portfolio managers find genuinely idiosyncratic stock risk amid the current top-down noise?

How we run our money: Xerox UK Final Salary Pension Scheme

January 2020 (Magazine)

Jeffrey McMahon, head of pension investment and risk at Xerox UK, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the plan to make the company’s legacy DB scheme self-sufficient

Top 1000 Pension Funds 2024: Pensions back at a sweet spot

Top 1000 Pension Funds 2024

Assets for the leading 1000 European pension funds grew by 8.7% year-on-year, reversing last year’s loss of 6.8%. This brings total assets back up to above their previous high water mark of €9.7trn in 2022’s research exercise. This year’s overall net gain in assets of €775bn is the largest since 2021’s increase of €810bn.

Are loyalty shares a game-changer?

October 2013 (Magazine)

Nina Roehrbein asked Mirjam Staub-Bisang about sustainable investment in Switzerland

S&P puts European firms on watch for pensions

2003-02-17T09:53:00Z

EUROPE – Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has put some of Europe’s leading companies onto negative credit watch because of their unfunded pension liabilities.

TPG surprised at S&P pension rating

2003-02-12T04:40:00Z

NETHERLANDS – TPG, the Dutch logistics firm, has said it is surprised to be one of the companies put on credit watch by ratings firm Standard & Poor’s because of unfounded pension liabilities.

Proper rewards for loyalty

IP Asia November 2012

The key driver of investment decision making should not be immediate investment returns, but long term viability and profitability.

European Equities: What Impacts In The Event Of A Tariff War With The United States?

Reference Hub2019-05-03T14:35:00Z By Amundi

While the threat of a large-scale Sino-US tariff war appears to be receding, the US could now switch its focus to its trade deficits with the European Union. With this in mind, we wanted to find out which European equities, in terms of country, sector or individual companies, would be hardest hit by a trade conflict.

ThyssenKrupp in “intense dialogue” with S&P

2003-02-17T04:26:00Z

GERMANY – German industrial group ThyssenKrupp says it is in “intense dialogue” with Standard & Poor’s following the ratings agency’s decision to put it on credit watch negative because of its pension liabilities.

In Credit: The sun shines on Brazil?

Reference Hub2018-11-01T17:38:00Z By Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Core US bond yields drifted higher again last week with volatility in Europe centred upon the Italian bond market once again.

Vanguard prepares for the inevitable

October 1998 (Magazine)

Turning overtime into downtime

May 2006 (Magazine)

Ask asset managers doing business with German corporate pensions what they feel is driving the industry these days, and many will rattle off two acronyms: “CTAs and ZWKs”. No need to worry if these acronyms don’t ring a bell. No one outside of corporate pensions in Germany has a clue ...