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- UK pension fund demands more transparency in Porsche takeover
- One of Europe's most influential investors has strongly criticised Volkswagen's plan to take over Porsche and threatened to take further action if demands for more transparency fail to be met.In a letter to Ferdinand Pi by Financial Times
- News items 2009-11-15
- Future Fund, Transurban Suitors in Talks
- The federal government's Future Fund has entered talks with two Canadian pension funds about supporting their takeover bid for Transurban Group.The Future Fund board of guardians said on Thursday they had entered into preliminary discussions with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CPPIB and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan...
- News items 2009-12-10
- Filing Guidance Related To: Conditions For Use Of Non-Gaap Financial Measures; And Insider Traders During Pension Fund Blackout Periods
- The Securities and Exchange Commission is issuing interim guidance regarding the filing of information pursuant to new Items 11 and 12 of Form 8-K. Item 11 requires a registrant to provide public notice of a pension fund blackout period. Item 12 requires a registrant to furnish specified disclosure when the...
- White papers 2003-01-30
- Accounting For Local Authority Pension Funds
- Pensions continue to make the news. The objectives of a pension fund annual report are to inform users about the general activities of the fund, the transactions for the year, the size of the fund, the ability for the fund to meet future liabilities and the investment policy and performance...
- White papers 2002-09-27
- SEC Adopts New Rules On Several Sarbanes Oxley Provisions
- This article explains the 3 rules and amendments which The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to adopt the following concerning provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The rules are conditions for use of Non-GAAP financial information under section 401b and amendments to form 8-K under section 409, disclosure...
- White papers 2003-01-16
- Pension Funds and Volatility
- Pension plan sponsors are becoming reacquainted with volatility. Over the last few years, investment markets have given pension funds a bumpy ride, with unprecedented stock market gains. Impacts of these changes have varied from one plan to another. An employer might reasonably expect higher investment assets to be accompanied by...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Budgeting And Monitoring The Risk Of Defined Benefit Pension Funds
- This paper describes a set of mean/variance procedures for setting targets for the risk characteristics of components of a pension fund portfolio and for monitoring the portfolio over time to detect significant deviations from those targets. Due to the correlations of the returns provided by the managers of a typical...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- Future Tense 2003 Forecast: A Year of Doldrums, Not Despair
- The report in the article indicates investors can expect solid returns this year in certain property types, such as warehouses in major transportation hubs, offices in established 24-hour markets, apartments and grocery-anchored shopping centers. Property sectors to avoid include most suburban buildings, offices in 9-5 downtowns and development projects. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- SEC Announces More Sarbanes-Oxley Proposals
- This article explains about the rules proposed by SEC, which are to be implemented in the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. All the provision such as Section 401b regarding the disclosure of pro-forma financial information, Section 409 addressing current disclosure of material changes in financial condition, Section 401a concerning MD&A...
- White papers 2002-11-06
- What is Core Real Estate? Where are the Opportunities Today?
- This article talks about the real estate cycle that has matured to an equilibrium level, core real estate investment strategies are garnering more attention from pension funds. Although core investing cannot be defined precisely, the overwhelming characteristics relate to the predictability and stability of the income stream, and the liquidity...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Finding Consistent Alpha
- For several decades, U.S. pension plans have looked to the stock market to achieve high returns on their assets, and over time, this has been a winning strategy. However, the recent bear market has contributed significantly to a disconcerting shortfall in the funding of pension fund liabilities. There are several...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Sarbanes-Oxley Section 306(A): Final Rules On Insider Trades During Pension Fund Blackout Periods
- In a release dated January 22, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final rules implementing Section 306a of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Act"). Section 306a of the Act, entitled "Prohibition of Insider Trading During Pension Fund Blackout Periods," expressly prohibits any director or executive officer of an...
- White papers 2003-04-09
- The Determinants Of The Flow Of Funds Of Managed Portfolios : Mutual Funds Versus Pension Funds
- Due to differences in financial sophistication and agency relationships, it posits that investors use different criteria to select portfolio managers in the retail mutual fund and fiduciary pension fund industry segments. It provides evidence on investors' manager selection criteria by estimating the relation between manager asset flow and performance. it...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- Optimum Centralized Portfolio Construction With Decentralized Portfolio Management
- Many financial institutions employ outside portfolio managers to manage part or all of their invest able assets. These institutions include pension funds, private endowments (e.g., colleges and charities), and private trusts. This paper uses the pension fund manager, as the prototype of the centralized decision-maker trying to optimally manage a...
- White papers 2002-10-08
- Risk For Pension Fund Providers
- For any company considering whether to offer or continue to offer a traditional defined benefit DB pension scheme, the fundamental issue is whether the benefit of doing so justifies the cost. The rationale is clear: in providing a desirable benefit for employees, the company hopes to attract and then retain...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- SEC Proposes Pension Fund Blackout Rules
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 the Act contains provisions requiring that participants and beneficiaries collectively referred to as participants in certain retirement plans be given 30 days' notice before a blackout period and that executive officers and directors be prohibited from buying or selling company stock during the blackout period....
- White papers 2002-11-19
- SEC Issues Final Rules Implementing Section 306(A) Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002: Insider Trades During Pension Fund Blackout Periods
- From the executive summary: ‘The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC adopted final rules by implementing Section 306a of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Section prohibits directors and executive officers of an issuer from trading in the issuer's equity securities acquired in connection with the services during a pension plan "blackout period."...
- White papers 2003-02-03
- SEC Proposes Rules Implementing Provisions Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 Requiring Companies To Reconcile Non-GAAP Financial Information
- The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC proposed the Rules implementing provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The proposed Rule requires companies to reconcile Non-Generally Accepting Accounting Principles GAAP financial information, file the earnings announcement, and disclose the balance sheets. The Rule also prohibits the directors and officers from trading during pension...
- White papers 2002-10-31
- The Effect Of Air Pollution Related Human Health Risks On Firm Financial Performance
- From the executive summary: ‘Since the last few decades, there is a marked increase around the world in socially responsible investment and regulatory action to stimulate disclosure on the environmental, social, and ethical performance of firms and pension fund managers. The paper explores two keystones of the movement: that investment...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Non-U.S. Bonds: An Opportunistic Versus Dedicated Approach
- The first section of the paper examines in detail the empirical evidence of the incremental contribution of non-dollar bonds to institutional portfolios. In this section, it considers the case for non-dollar fixed income for the general category of U.S. based mean-variant optimal investors which is believe to encompass most institutional...
- White papers 2001-11-08
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