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IMF chief warns of 'lost decade'

CHINA - The head of the IMF pleaded with China to support the eurozone as she warned the global economy is heading for a "lost decade".

  • China
  • 09 November 2011
SSgA secures $184m from two Italian pensions

ITALY - BNL/BNP Paribas Employees' Pension Fund has hired State Street Global Advisors to run an €82m ($113m) custom fixed income mandate while the Cariplo Pension Fund renewed a European equity mandate worth $71m.

  • Mandates
  • 20 October 2011
State Street strengthens Italian presence following successful acquisition

ITALY - State Street has strengthened its European presence with the opening of two new offices in Milan and Turin, Italy. The move is part of the company's successful integration efforts with Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP) which has a presence in both Italy and...

  • Custody
  • 13 June 2011
Italian pensions starting to move on activist shareholding

Raquel Pichardo-Allison reports on a new wave of activism starting to swell in Italy

  • Italy
  • 06 June 2011
Mercer makes leadership changes to Italy business

ITALY - Mercer has strengthened its management team in Italy with four internal appointments.

  • Italy
  • 01 February 2011
Pegaso allocates €60m in to SSgA

ITALY - Fondo Previdenziale Pegaso, the pension fund for employees in the Italian utility services, has hired State Street Global Advisors to run a €60m (US$76m) active fixed income mandate.

  • Italy
  • 07 September 2010
Italy raises retirement age by three years

ITALY - The Italian government has raised the retirement age by three years as part of sweeping austerity measures.

  • Italy
  • 30 July 2010
Alitalia Airlines trustees agree buy-in deal

UK/ITALY - The Alitalia Italian Airlines Pension and Assurance Scheme has entered into a pension insurance buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation with a deficit of more than £22m (US$33.7m).

  • United Kingdom
  • 15 July 2010
Italian managers unprepared for governance rules

Italy - Just a quarter of Italian asset managers are prepared for the imminent introduction of new governance rules, research by BC Dexia reveals.

  • Corporate Governance
  • 21 June 2010
Italian government drafts new pension age increase plan

ITALY - The Italian government today will present to parliament an amended law to increase female public servants pension age to 65 by 2012, as required by the European Commission.

  • Italy
  • 10 June 2010
EC to Italy: Equalise pension age by 2012

ITALY - The European Commission has once again put pressure on Italy to equalise the pension age of men and women, asking the country to move up its plans to have employees retiring at the same age by six years to 2012.

  • Italy
  • 08 June 2010
EC renews legal action against Italy on discriminatory pension age

EUROPE/ITALY - The European Commission has issued a new request for Italy to move swiftly to equalise the retirement age for men and women.

  • Europe
  • 03 June 2010
Italian pension funds under-estimate transition management

As Italy has largely ignored transition management, Giovanni Legorano looks at the reasons for this and asks if this is set to change in the near future

  • Italy
  • 28 May 2010
Cometa completes asset manager overhaul

ITALY - The €5.2bn (US$6.4bn) Fondo Cometa has hired nine managers and completed the renewal of mandates for its Monetario Plus, Reddito and Crescita sub-funds due to expire this year.

  • Italy
  • 24 May 2010
State Street closes €1.28bn acquisition of ISPSS

ITALY - State Street Corp. has completed its €1.28bn (US$1.6bn) cash purchase of Intesa Sanpaolo's Securities Services business (ISPSS), including the firm's custody and fund administration units.

  • Italy
  • 17 May 2010
Fini calls for pension safety net

ITALY - The speaker for Italian members of Parliament Gianfranco Fini has called for the creation of a pension safety net for corporate and multiemployer schemes to encourage membership into second pillar pensions.

  • Italy
  • 30 April 2010
Schroders: Italy's second pillar strongest form of saving

ITALY - The financial crisis has shown the relative strength of the country's second pillar pension system in comparison with other forms of savings, Schroders' head of distribution for Italy Luca Tenani has said.

  • Italy
  • 29 April 2010
PensPlan Centrum up 13% in 2009

ITALY - Italian pension fund service provider PensPlan Centrum posted a 13% profit for 2009 on the back of equity gains.

  • Italy
  • 28 April 2010
Italian pensions review asset structures

ITALY - Italian schemes are increasingly reviewing their asset allocation and looking to offer lifestyling arrangements to their members in the wake of the losses incurred during the crisis, Towers Watson managing consultant for Italy Fabio Carniol said....

  • Italy
  • 23 April 2010
Italian schemes adopting fiduciary management

ITALY ¬- Italian pension funds have been increasingly looking at fiduciary management solutions in the first quarter of this year, BlackRock head of Italian institutional business Alberto Salato said.

  • Italy
  • 22 April 2010
Cometa awards €620m investment mandate

ITALY - Fondo Cometa has awarded two separate investment mandates for an overall value of €620m (US$836.7m) to Unipol Gruppo Finanziario (UGF) and Cattolica Assicurazioni (CA).

  • Mandates
  • 23 March 2010
Cometa awards BNP Paribas a €5bn custodian mandate

ITALY - Italy's largest pension fund Fondo Cometa has appointed BNP Paribas as its new custodian for its €5bn (US$6.8bn) portfolio.

  • Italy
  • 16 March 2010
Swisscanto eyes Italy for expansion

SWITZERLAND/ITALY/UK - Swisscanto is planning a move into the Italian pension market after a recent expansion into the UK, a company official said.

  • Switzerland
  • 04 February 2010
Fon.Te tenders for €900m mandates

ITALY - The pension fund for tourism, commerce and service sector workers (Fon.Te) launched manager searches for two of its defined contribution funds for mandates worth €900m (US$1.2bn).

  • Mandates
  • 03 February 2010
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