All IPE articles in September 2005 (Online) – Page 8
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Dutch schemes ‘eye private equity amid FTK’
NETHERLANDS – The FTK, the Netherlands’ new financial assessment framework, could lead Dutch institutions to raise their private equity allocations, according to new academic research.
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Dutch rail scheme SPF hires PGGM’s Varkevisser
NETHERLANDS – The €10.4bn Dutch railway pension scheme SPF has just appointed PGGM’s Jan-Theo Varkevisser as portfolio manager for fixed income and the treasury.
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European managers outstrip US rivals – Watson
EUROPE – European asset managers now manage more assets than their North American rivals, according to research by consulting firm Watson Wyatt.
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Call for Europe to tackle manager-consultant ties
GLOBAL – Europe should tackle the “corruption” of relationships between pension consultants and asset managers, says a US lawyer who’s suing a consultant over the ‘pay-to-play’ system.
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Robeco sees “disappointing” asset inflow
NETHERLANDS – Robeco, the asset management arm of Rabobank, had a disappointing inflow of new assets in the first half of the year – hit by US outflows.
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PGGM strategy head De Vrij joins ABP
NETHERLANDS – PGGM’s head of strategy and research, Gerlof De Vrij, has left the €60bn health care fund to work on a project for civil service scheme Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP.
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350 jobs to go as Julius Baer buys banks
SWITZERLAND – Around 350 jobs, including possibly that of asset management chief Roman von Ah, look set to go with Julius Baer’s decision to buy four wealth management firms from UBS.
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Mercer hires ex-Jardine Lloyd’s Parker
UK – Mercer Human Resource Consulting has appointed former Jardine Lloyd Thompson senior actuary, Matthew Parker, as senior consultant.
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German institutions ‘to seek lower hedge fees’
GERMANY – German institutional investors will increasingly pressure fund of hedge fund providers to cut management and performance fees, reckons consulting firm Faros.
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Switzerland’s Aargau mulls switch to DC
SWITZERLAND – The Aargauische Pensionskasse, or APK, is planning to change from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme by 2007 due to interest-rate pressures.
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ING Real Estate chief quits over Polish complex
POLAND – Paul Trip, chief executive of development at ING Real Estate, has quit over problems at a shopping complex in Warsaw.
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No delay for Dutch levensloop bill - minister
NETHELANDS - The new bill on VUT, pre-pension and 'levensloop', or VPL, should come into force as of January 1 2006, Dutch social affairs minister Aart Jan de Geus has told parliament.
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Germany: BaFin fund regulator Bartels to retire
GERMANY - Financial services regulator BaFin has confirmed that Volckmar Bartels, its chief supervisor for institutional, retail and hedge funds in Germany, will retire at the end of this month.
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Dutch regulator concerned about hedge funds
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch financial regulator AFM says hedge funds’ lack of transparency is a cause for concern – and that investors don’t have enough understanding of the funds’ investment policies and risk profiles.
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AP3 puts €30m into infrastructure fund
SWEDEN – Tredje AP-fonden, the SEK175.8bn (€18.9bn) Third National Pension Fund or AP3, has invested £20m (€30m) into an infrastructure fund run by Henderson Global Investors.
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MLIM completes €12bn Philips pension deal
NETHERLANDS - Merrill Lynch Investment Managers says it has now completed its previously announced deal to buy the in-house pension management arms of electronics giant Philips.
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ABN Amro Mellon makes Nordic hire
DENMARK - ABN Amro Mellon has appointed Danske Bank’s Soren Eberhard as business development manager for the Nordic market.
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European social model at risk – McCreevy
EUROPE – The European social model is at risk amid low growth and changing demographics, says Charlie McCreevy, the European Commission’s internal markets chief.
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COMMENT: Petroleum Fund up for grabs?
COMMENTARY – The head of the Norwegian central bank, Svein Gjedrem, appears to have dropped a hint about the future of the Petroleum Fund.
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Dutch doctors’ fund becomes limited company
NETHERLANDS – The €11bn doctors scheme SBA Artsenpensioenfondsen has announced its decision to become a private limited company - Doctors Pension Funds Services BV.
