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Towers Watson touts fundamental to clients
Global Pensions | 09 Feb 2010 | 12:48
GLOBAL – Towers Watson has started recommending its clients invest up to half of their passive assets in fundamental indexes.
Bonus culture to blame for crippling schemes - Myners
UK - Financial services secretary Lord Myners has accused excessive bonuses of ruining British pension funds.
Global Pensions | 09 Feb 2010
FCERA to search for large-cap growth and small-cap managers
US – The board of the Fresno County Employees Retirement Association (FCERA) approved a search for a US large-cap growth manager after it terminated INTECH and a search for a US small-cap active equity manager to replace Brandywine.
Global Pensions | 08 Feb 2010
Other news
- Markstone and Wetherly return $19m to CRF
- Majority of European investment funds do not use IFRS
- Pension funds demand more proactive advice
- Pension funds invest in UK property
- Premier Foods linked to £2bn longevity swap deal
- Towers Watson expands SRI team to meet client demand
- SEC softens stance on placement agent crackdown
Global Pensions Awards 2010 Shortlist
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Global Pensions 100 Panel
The Global Pensions 100 Panel was launched in July 2006 and every month asks pension funds two topical questions on events in the pensions industry.
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Comment: Emerging markets and life after the global storm
As 2009 winds down, it’s refreshing to see pension funds beginning to put risk back on the table, tentative as they may be.
MEDIA CENTRE
Video: It is time to call it a day for defined benefit accrual?
UK - Senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano speaks to Steve Delo former chairman of the Pensions Management Institute/Independent Trustee, PAN Governance and Michael Chatterton, head of settlement solutions at Watson Wyatt.
Video: Interview with BTPS pensions director Kevin O’Boyle
UK – British Telecom Pension Scheme pensions director Kevin O’Boyle speaks to GP senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano about how an internal review led the fund to shift to a contract based scheme for the defined contribution members.
Video: Interview with the NAPF chairman Lindsay Tomlinson
UK - NAPF chairman Lindsay Tomlinson speaks to GP senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano about his goals for the organisation given the current situation of the UK pension industry.
CURRENCY MANAGEMENT FORUM TORONTO
Currency Management Forum Toronto
This year's Global Pensions Currency Management Forum Toronto will take place on Thursday 11th March at the Four Seasons Hotel. The forum will explore how to deal with currency volatility that is being driven by the government debt bubble instead of uncertainly in the markets.
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Comment: Avoiding past mistakes
Ask any asset management expert how they will remember the past decade, and the answers will be unsurprisingly grim. I heard about the end of the defined benefit plan, the swift unwinding of retirement security and the “lost decade”.