UK- Barclays is in exclusive talks with private equity firm CVC Capital Partners over the sale of its exchange traded fund business iShares, a source close to the deal says.
US - AEGON has promoted Transamerica Retirement Services chief executive and president Kent Callahan to group head of employer solutions and pensions of a number of subsidiary companies.
NETHERLANDS - The €208bn (US$281bn) ABP pension fund will increase contributions by 3 percentage points, withhold indexation and de-risk some of its investments in a bid to return to solvency within five years.
US - The Iowa Public Employees Retirment System (IPERS) has recovered US$35m from Westridge Capital Management, whose principals were arrested on charges of conspiracy and fraud in February.
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The Rexam Pension Plan is to close its two defined benefit schemes to new members and replace it with another final salary arrangement.
More than a quarter of pension professionals feel "very nervous" over their job security, research by GRS Group reveals.
The average UK pension fund achieved a weighted average return of -13.6% in 2008, research from BNY Mellon Asset Servicing reveals.
CANADA - The Canadian Minister of Finance has unveiled regulations to provide temporary solvency funding relief to federally regulated defined benefit pension plans.
EUROPE - Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management (Casam) and the Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre have jointly created a new research chair in core-satellite and ETF investment.