All Securities Services articles – Page 30
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Degussa chooses new custodian
German chemical company Degussa has re-organised its E2.4bn Pensionskasse, appointing a master KAG structure and a new custodian as well as putting six new investment mandates out to tender. Andreas Poestges, head of asset management at the Degussa Pensionskasse explained that dbi of the Allianz Dresdner Asset Management group (ADAM) ...
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The viruous circle of transition management
The tricky proposition of simultaneously restructuring portfolios while changing investment managers can be daunting for even the most sophisticated pension fund sponsor. If badly handled, a transition can severely impact the health of a pension fund. Transition managers allow pension funds to allocate assets efficiently – both with reference to ...
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Why we all will be speaking IAS 19 soon
With apologies to yet another variation on those immortal words from Star Trek, it’s just possible that pension accounting treatment in Europe might become the trend-setter for the world, surpassing even the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that started it all almost 20 years ago. In December 1985, the ...
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Preparing for battles ahead
It may not be saying much, but custody has never been so exciting as it is in Germany at the moment. For one thing, the master KAG concept is putting global custodians on the map as nothing has before. And, of course, there is matter of State Street digesting the ...
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Time to shut the back office
This article considers issues involved in outsourcing each of the main areas of a pension scheme, and in particular back office outsourcing. It is based on an operation I successfully carried out at the £3bn (e4.3bn) TRW/Lucas fund in the UK. This was probably the first case of an in-house ...
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Bridging the gulf
Set to kick off this year on 20 October in Singapore, the occasion of SWIFT’s annual Sibos conference and exhibit is always an apposite moment to reflect upon the Belgium-based cooperative’s progress over the preceding year. This year, however, SWIFT ceo Lenny Schrank and his fellow executives could be forgiven ...
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Cracking the German market first
As the European pension market evolves, with new regulations creating greater diversity in the types of pensions available to workers, pension providers are faced with the issue of how to administer the different products they are now able to offer. Nowhere is this problem more marked than in Germany where ...
