All IPE articles in September 2005 (Online) – Page 6
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ECB’s Trichet backs asset management regulation
EUROPE – Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, says the ECB backs the idea of “regulatory intervention” in asset management.
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UK’s Turner sees role for funded pensions
UK – Pensions Commission chairman Adair Turner says more saving into funded pensions should be part of the response to the demographic challenge facing the UK.
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Dutch FTK makes pensions clear, minister says
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pensions minister Aart Jan de Geus has defended the delayed financial assessment framework, or FTK, saying it helps to remove the industry’s “secret code”.
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AP3 tenders for risk system
SWEDEN – Tredje AP-fonden, the SEK175.8bn (€18.9bn) Third National Pension Fund, has started looking for new risk analysis solutions.
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Investors demand change to US voting rules
GLOBAL – A group of 14 institutional investors from the UK, Netherlands, Australia and Canada have called for an overhaul of the American voting standard regarding the election of US corporate directors.
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Dutch schemes face 15-year ‘continuity analysis’
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds should be prepared to make a continuity analysis for the next 15 years, according to Dirk Witteveen, director of pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).
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Mercer calls for PPF changes
UK – Mercer Human Resource Consulting has called on the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to request changes to government proposals it says will force companies to incur high administrative costs in 2006.
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Buhrmann switches administration to Blue Sky
NETHERLANDS – The €775m corporate pension fund of Amsterdam-based office products supplier Burhmann is to switch its pension administration and management support to the Blue Sky Group.
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Uhlmann joins INDEXCHANGE board
GERMANY – European exchange traded funds leader, INDEXCHANGE Investment, has appointed dbi’s Thomas Uhlmann to its management board in a strategic strengthening of its international sales body.
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GES launches new client interface
EUROPE -- Stockholm-based SRI analysis house GES Investment Services is to launching a web-based extension to its active engagement service that will enable its institutional investor clients to become more involved in the engagement process.
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UK pension funds return 7% in 1H05 says WM
UK – Pension fund returns in the UK surged to 5.1% in the second quarter, bringing first-half returns for 2005 to 7%, according to WM Performance Services.
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Russell predicts new alternative investing highs
GLOBAL – Hedge fund use by European institutions has increased dramatically in 2005. Their use by continental respondents to the Russell Investment Group’s seventh annual report on alternative investment the doubled to 48% from 24% in 2003.
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Dutch FTK delayed for pension funds
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch central bank has confirmed that the FTK, the new Financial Assessment Framework, will now be delayed by a year to January 1 2007.
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Caulfield takes over as Mercer president
GLOBAL – Michael Caulfield has been appointed president of Mercer Human Resource Consulting, taking over from Brian Storms who has become chief executive of sister firm Marsh Inc.
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F&C CEO exits amid outflows, outsourcing delay
UK – F&C Asset Management says its chief executive Howard Carter is to retire and be replaced by former institutional chief Alain Grisay.
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Dexia say clients back RBC custody tie
EUROPE – Dexia says its clients have responded well to its planned custody tie-up with Royal Bank of Canada.
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Northern Trust Global Advisors names CIO
GLOBAL - Northern Trust Global Advisors, the manager-of-managers arm of the Chicago-based bank, has named Andrew Smith as chief investment officer.
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Threadneedle names UK institutional head
UK – Threadneedle Investments has named Madeline Forrester as its new head of UK institutional business, effective immediately.
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Insight nabs MLIM’s Aitken as institutional head
UK – Insight Investment Management has named Sarah Aitken, head of defined contribution at rival Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, as its new head of institutional business.
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UK’s Willetts joins Punter Southall as advisor
UK – Former opposition pensions spokesman David Willetts has been appointed senior policy advisor for actuarial consultancy Punter Southall & Co.
