All IPE articles in September 2004 (Online) – Page 2
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UK’s Brown says people right to worry over pensions
UK – UK finance minister Gordon Brown says people are right to be anxious over pensions – but denied there is a pensions crisis.
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Heissmann slams “flawed” Deutsche pensions note
GERMANY - Heissmann Consultants' Managing Partner, Alf Gohdes, has slammed the main finding of a recent research note issued by Deutsche Bank, which found that Germany has Europe's highest pension gaps.
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BT shrugs off S&P pension revision
UK – Phone firm BT Group says S&P’s revision of its credit outlook – partly due to its pension leverage – is “not major news”.
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AP2 awards E76m sustainable brief to SAM
SWEDEN - Andra AP-fonden, the Second Swedish National Pension Fund or AP2, is making a 76 million-euro investment into a fund managed by Sustainable Asset Management.
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World Bank OKs credit for Montenegro pensions
MONTENEGRO – The World Bank has approved 18 million dollars (14.7 million euros) to support, among other things, reform of Montenegro’s pension system.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss fund tenders European equities
SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund has tendered 70 million euros in actively managed pan-European equities ex-Switzerland via IPE-Quest.
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NAPF’s Scott queries some Hermes activism
BELGIUM - Derek Scott, chairman of the UK’s National Association of Pension Funds’ shareholder affairs committee, has queried some of Hermes Pensions Management’s shareholder activism strategy - citing Vodafone as an example.
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Switzerland raises first-pillar pensions by 1.9%
SWITZERLAND - The Swiss Federal council has increased the first pillar old age, survivor and disablement pensions, known as AVS-AI, by 1.9% in a bid to “to adapt pensions to economic developments”.
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Too much made of population ageing – IMF
GLOBAL – The head of research at the International Monetary Funds says sometimes too much is made of the challenges of population ageing.
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WM Dutch pension fund index returns 5.1%
NETHERLANDS – WM Co. says its Dutch pension fund index returned 5.1% for the year to the end of August.
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UK pension fund disclosures: BA, Shell, TRW
UK - The following are UK pension funds' holdings in companies that have been disclosed this week under the Financial Services Authority's stock market listing rules - with pension funds named including: British Airways, Shell and TRW.
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UK ombudsman seeks pensions investigator
UK - The Pensions Ombudsman, which investigates and decides complaints and disputes about the way pension schemes are run, is looking for self-employed pensions investigators.
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IBM UK scheme members concerned
UK – A group representing members of IBM’s UK pension schemes says it is “reasonable” for members to be concerned about the schemes’ outlook.
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One-year countdown starts for IORP directive
EUROPE – The European Union’s directive on pan-European occupational pensions comes into force in one year’s time.
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Morgan Stanley’s Orchard joins JP Morgan Fleming
UK- JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management has hired Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Orchard as a portfolio manager in its growing global portfolios group.
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Polish funds lift equity investments
POLAND-Pension funds have invested about 300 million dollars (243.5 million euros) in Polish equities in the last four months and the trend is expected to continue, according to Merrill Lynch.
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Italian pension bonus becomes operational
ITALY - One of the pivots of Italy’s pension reform, the tax-free perk to keep Italian workers in their jobs longer, has become operative and will be implemented in two weeks.
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Ex-Bank of NY Europe chief joins Deutsche Börse
EUROPE – Jeffrey Tessler, former general manager of Europe at the Bank of New York, is to join Deutsche Börse as head of its Clearstream International custody arm.
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Surrey switches to specialist managers
UK - The 1.2 billion pounds Surrey County Council has appointed Schroders Investment Management and boutiques Majedie Investments and Mirabaud Investment Managers as managers for its equities portfolio as it prepares to switch to specialist management.
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FTSE launches tradable ‘supersector’ indices
EUROPE - New tradable ‘supersector’ indices have been launched and added to the FTSEurofirst Index Series. These will enable investors to trade a range of 18 sectors across Europe on a real-time basis.
