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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... $49.65. Earlier, Woodside hit $50.85 after news reports from the UK over the weekend said BHP was in detailed talks with Royal Dutch Shell, Woodside's biggest shareholder, for an eventual STG30 billion ($A46.7 billion) takeover of Woodside. BHP Billiton ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The Dutch pension system will soon introduce a new pension contract that would tackle the dual challenges of longevity risk and an ageing population. The Netherlands has a mandatory pension system based on generous defined benefits but an ageing population ...

Bank blocks pension gold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) ordered Dutch pension fund SPVG to reduce its investment in gold from 13 per cent of its portfolio to three per cent or less. SPVG, the pension fund of glassworks company Vereenigde Glasfabrieken, has been given ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... Chatterton said the sale of Shell's holding in Woodside Petroleum was the major factor in a softer market on Tuesday. Royal Dutch Shell has sold around a 10 per cent stake in Woodside Petroleum, worth $3.3 billion. At 1200 AEDT, Woodside was the worst ...

Hungary private pension breakdown

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... over half of Hungarian private pension funds assets have been held in government debt. In related news, the four largest Dutch pension funds have felt the impact of a drop in interest rates with all four reporting coverage ratios decline in the third ...

Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super join top 300

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... Brazilian funds grew 24 per cent, followed by Australian funds with 16 per cent, Mexican and Danish funds with 10 per cent, and Dutch funds, which grew 8 per cent. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund retains its status the largest pension fund ...

Acadian strategy gains super and pension mandates

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... has doubled its funds under management and tipped over the $1 billion mark this year after attracting an Australian and Dutch investment mandate. AUSCOAL Super gave the fund manager a $97.5 million investment mandate and earlier this year Dutch pension ...

INGIM builds distribution from ground up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... INGIM said it would expand its local product manufacturing and distribution to both financial advisers and institutions. The Dutch parent's decision to plough more resources into its Australian operations follow the acquisition last year of ING Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... Takeover target Arrow Energy was three cents richer at $5.18 after the Foreign Investment Review Board approved the joint Royal Dutch Shell/PetroChina takeover bid for Arrow. On Wall Street overnight, stocks closed higher, after another series of upbeat ...

NZ Super buys Shell assets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
A consortium including the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has bought the Royal Dutch Shell's New Zealand distribution business assets for more than $540 million. The deal includes all Shell's "downstream assets", which include the business' retail ...