All IPE articles in September 2004 (Online) – Page 8
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dutch funds
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds are looking to increase their use of unconstrained active investment management, according to a survey by JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management.
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FundPartners founder Mansour leaves
NETHERLANDS – Amin Mansour, founder of FundPartners, is leaving to join a private bank.
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UK funds have
UK - Pension funds in the UK are relying more on consultants but have little or no idea how to measure their advice, a new survey has found.
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Morgan Stanley IM global president Ennis quits
GLOBAL – William Ennis, president of global services at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, is to leave the firm, a spokesman said.
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Hedge funds now eye fundamentals – Integrated
GLOBAL – Hedge fund are now looking at market fundamentals over ‘momentum trades’, according to alternative assets firm Integrated Asset Management.
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JLT, Norton Rose to run pension seminars
UK – Benefits consultancy Jardine Lloyd Thompson and law firm Norton Rose are to run a series of breakfast seminars on the pensions industry in 2003.
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Mercer advises funds not to follow fashion
UK – Pension funds should not give in to what is ‘in vogue’ but concentrate instead on why they are investing, says a senior investment consultant at Mercer.
