All IPE articles in September 2007 (Online) – Page 2
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China seeks retirement guidance from Pensions Trust
[16:00 CEST 26-09] UK/China – A delegation of Chinese government officials has met with officials at the UK’s Pension Trust to discuss how it might apply lessons learned from the European management of retirement provision.
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Smiths Group sees improved pensions surplus
[15:00 CEST 26-09] UK – Smith Group, a specialist supplier of detection equipment for airport security, has more than doubled its funded pension schemes surpluses and pulled increased the value of its UK fund to almost £3bn (€4.5bn).
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E-Quality suggests solution to retired migrant poverty
[14:30 CEST 26-09] NETHERLANDS - A mandatory pension for every worker could help to provide migrants with a reasonable pension at retirement, E-Quality, the Dutch knowledge centre for emancipation, family and diversity, has claimed.
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Buyout 'confederation' attacked by Pensions Regulator
[14:00 CEST 26-09] UK – The Pensions Regulator has criticised officials of a new defined benefit pensions buyout operation for suggesting the occupational pensions watchdog endorses its new operation and for making misleading statements about the regulatory status of schemes using its offering.
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Wednesday people update
[11:00 CEST 26-09] GLOBAL – People moves roundup: Permira, Caceis, BlackRock, State Street, Watson Wyatt, BNP Paribas, NBIM, Fortis, Investec, Millennium Global Investments, Premier Pensions Management, Morse, Nordea.
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ACA urges government to introduce pension reform
[16:33 CEST 25-09] UK – The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) is urging the UK government to encourage risk-sharing schemes by introducing legislative reforms.
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eShare to set up online trustee forum
[16:30 CEST 25-09] UK – eShare, a UK provider of web-based governance tools, is setting an online discussion forum for pension fund trustees.
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Series of new ETFs enter the market
[16:30 CEST 25-09] GLOBAL – Exchanges-traded funds providers ETF Securities and Lyxor have unveiled additions to their London-listed futures offerings, covering the commodities and Japanese markets.
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Northern Rock faces class action scrutiny
[16:00 CEST 25-09] UK – FTSE 100-listed company Northern Rock could yet be the subject of a shareholder class action suit over the management’s reactions to its financing position in the August credit crunch.
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ABP to double microfinance holdings again
[15:30 CDEST 25-09] NETHERLANDS – Major Dutch pension fund ABP expects to increase its investments in microfinance from $20m to around $40m (€28.4m) by the end of this year.
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Dutch insurers claim 18% of second pillar
[15:00 CEST 25-09] NETHERLANDS - Life insurers built up an 18% share of the second pillar pensions market by 2005, the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics, or CVS, has claimed.
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Pensions Corporation buys out Telent shell
[14:30 CEST 25-09] UK – Edmund Truell’s Pension Corporation has agreed a £400m (€570.5m) takeover bid with Telent plc, the UK telecoms equipment making arm of the Marconi group.
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DNB embarks on fining spree
[14:15 CEST 25-09] NETHERLANDS - Dutch insurer Achmea is the latest company to be hit with a fine from pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) for reportedly violating Dutch law on corporate pension funds’ use of member data.
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Glitnir signs up to SuperDerivatives
[16:45 CEST 24-09] EUROPE – Scandinavian asset management and banking group Glitnir is adopting the SuperDerivatives multi-asset derivatives pricing and analytics platform to all of its foreign exchange currency and equity options.
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Royal Mail hits back at pensions strike action
[16:15 CEST 24-09] UK – Royal Mail has criticised plans by its staff to strike over the future of the company pension fund and other employment terms.
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Italy’s second pillar flourishes under TFR
[15:45 CEST 24-09] ITALY – Subscriptions to the Italian second pillar doubled to 2.7 million accounts in the first half of this year, the Italian pension fund regulator, Covip has announced.
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Pension funds gain access to deficit insurance
[15:30 CEST 24-09] UK – A company is set to launch in the UK which offers defined benefit pension schemes a form of insurance to cover their pension deficits.
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DNB fines Mn for 'illegal' data use
[15:15 CEST 24-09] NETHERLANDS - Pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank has fined Dutch pensions provider and asset management firm Mn Services for trying to “illegally” obtain information about participants of industry-wide schemes for additional insurance services.
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Sainsbury’s trustees set for Delta Two talks
[13:30 CEST 24-09] UK – Trustees of the J Sainsbury pension scheme are expected to meet executives of Delta Two this week, in the hope of reaching an agreement concerning the potential takeover of the supermarket chain.
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Edhec sets up pension fund research chair
[13:00 CEST 24-09] FRANCE – The Nice-based business school Edhec and Axa Investment Managers have created a research chair on regulation and institutional investments.