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USS and Hermes file request for investigation

Global Pensions | 23 Feb 2010 | 12:51

NETHERLANDS - UK investors Hermes and the Universities Superannuation Scheme have filed a request with the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeals for an investigation over Canon’s tender offer worth €730m (US$990.5m) to buy Océ, the biggest European printer maker.

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Canadian investors fall short on proxy guidance

CANADA – Nearly three quarters of Canadian investment managers said their clients do not direct them on how to vote their proxies, a new survey found.

Global Pensions | 19 Feb 2010

Coalition pressures firms over ESG reporting failure

GLOBAL - An influential coalition of investors, including 33 pension funds, has demanded 86 major companies produce overdue sustainability reports.

Global Pensions | 15 Feb 2010

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FEATURES

Currency management forum Sydney 2009

Rachel Alembakis reports from the fourth annual Global Pensions/Westpac Currency Management Forum held in Sydney

Concerns deepen over DC

Even though the shift from DB to DC is slowing down, Jenny Blinch finds the industry prognosis is grim for the future of US pensions

History repeats itself

Once again, it is the intervention of foreigners that is causing Japan to open up to the outside world. And a more open corporate sector and fundamental changes in governance could mean an end to the view of Japan as a value trap, explains Joseph Mariathasan

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Video: interview with Jonathan Boersma, CFA Institute

Global Pensions | 10 Mar 2010 | screening image

Raquel Pichardo-Allison speaks to Jonathan Boersma, executive director, Global Investment Performance Standards, at the CFA Institute.

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Global Pensions | 05 Mar 2010 | screening image

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Are claims that the European Commission's alternative investment fund manager directive will cause an exodus of alternative managers from Europe overblown?

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