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Europe to follow Australian sustainability lead

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... funds offer an increasingly important market for UK investment managers. This briefing increased awareness in the UK pensions industry that responsible investment is now the norm for Australian pension funds." According to UKSIF, in Europe the total ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...

UK pensions demand more face time with fundies

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
A survey of UK workplace pension funds representing $400 billion in assets found pension funds are putting more fund managers on a "regular performance review". The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which 1,200 pension funds and $1.6 trillion ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... equity allocation in the past three years to 51 per cent in 2009. Crispin Lace, principal at Mercer, said this move by UK pensions is the result of increasing maturity among schemes and the market downturn. Bonds remain the most popular asset class in ...

BNY Mellon champions fiduciary transition

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... transition management specialist for BNY Asset Management, was recently named 2008 Transition Manager of the Year by a UK pensions magazine. According to MTMS chief executive Mark Keleher, the firm applies a fiduciary model to its business in an effort ...

It's a wrap for UK pensions: Zurich

Zurich Financial Services Australia has announced that its wrap services are all stamped as 'Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes' (QROPS) which will allow UK migrants to transfer their funds to Australia without heavy tax penalties. In April ...

Migrating a UK pension easier with good advice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... still our biggest source of inward migration, yet many UK migrants still need help sorting out how to transition their UK pensions into Australia. Making this transition complex, however, is that the UK can have eight different types of pension arrangements ...

AMP to close its UK pensions entity NPI to new business

As part of its demerger process, AMP has announced that it will close its UK pension business NPI Limited to new business and manage it as part of its UK Life Services (UKLS) business. "After thorough consideration of all its options, we have decided ...
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