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	Finanstilsynet - Company Pension Funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Claims based on the pension commitment shall be statute-barred after two years after the expiry of the calendar year in which the claim and the fact that the said claim has matured, was communicated to the claimant, and shall always be statute-barred after five years after the date of maturity of the said claim.
		The pension fund may not when accepting members or subsequently request, obtain, or receive and use information which may elucidate a person's hereditary genes and risk of developing or contracting disease or disorder, and the pension fund shall not demand that examinations which are necessary to produce such information be carried out.
		Pension funds which fall within the scope of sections 1 and 2 of this Act and which were legally operating pension-fund businesses at the time of entry into force of this Act, but which do not fall within the scope of the Danish Supervision of Pension Funds Act, cf.
	www.ftnet.dk /sw7856.asp (11463 words)

	AusStats : Pension funds
		Industry funds generally have closed memberships restricted to the employees of a particular industry and are established under an agreement between the parties to an industrial award.
		Funds with less than five members but which do not qualify as self-managed superannuation funds are known as small APRA funds.
		The assets of pension funds are shown in table 26.8 and include unfunded pension claims by pension funds on the Commonwealth Government where these have been formally recognised in accounting systems.
	www.abs.gov.au /ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/2e8eb84a7530e6b5ca256b360018239d!OpenDocument (428 words)

	Pension Funds
		Voluntary pension funds have been set up to be a supplement to the government’s guaranteed minimum pensions.
		The employees have to transfer 15% of the wage fund to the pension fund chosen by the employer.
		In the future, with the strengthening of the private pension funds, all pension contributions should be directed to the private system.
	www.emgmkts.com /kazkommerts/research/financial_markets/pension_funds.htm (719 words)

	Pension Funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pension funds may or may not have separate legal identities and may or may not have trustees.
		A pension plan is a reporting entity separate from a sponsor and the plan participants that, by any arrangement (contractual or otherwise), establishes a program to provide retirement income to employees.
		This class includes pension plans of all types, regardless of whether the fund is registered as a separate legal identity or is administered by trustees.
	www.quebecweb.com /entreprises/eScian_52611.html (114 words)

	Pension Funds and Financial Markets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As a result, the financial assets of pension funds have grown dramatically, and their impact on the world’s financial markets is increasingly attracting the attention of policy-makers.
		The ability of pension funds to maintain living standards during the retirement of the contributors is indeed crucially dependent on the performance of financial markets.
		The size of pension funds has also had an impact on the structure of financial markets: countries with large funded pension schemes tend to have highly developed securities markets; in countries with small pension-fund sectors, capital markets are relatively underdeveloped (the equity market in particular).
	www.oecd.org /publications/observer/212/Article6_eng.htm (3548 words)

	Pension Funds Return To Retail
		Despite retail's return to favor, few advisers think pension funds are likely to stage a land rush in the sector as happened in the mid to late 1980s due to uncertainty about both short- and long-term viability.
		As a general rule, she continues, pension funds are buying properties on an initial cap rate of 7.5 percent to 14 percent, with the expectation of returns of 10 percent to 25 percent.
		"Pension funds are being overrun by the REITs."
	retailtrafficmag.com /mag/retail_pension_funds_return/index.html (3383 words)

	Funds About Pension - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 1974 Pension Trust is one of several trusts that constitute the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds ("Funds"); they succeed the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund of 1950.
		Pension funds are often referred to as pension plans, and the...
		As U.S. pension funds stock up on hedge funds, these often conservative investors are being forced to adjust to a faster-paced investment style that doesn't come cheap.
	pension.fmqg.com /index.php?k=funds-about-pension (1071 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Pension Funds Play Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The pension fund of the union representing Safeway workers, for example, is trying to oust directors who stood up to the union in collective bargaining negotiations.
		Such abuse of public pension funds by incumbent politicians is unfair to their political opponents, other investors, and especially the retirees who depend on those funds.
		Studies have consistently shown that the greater the extent to which a public pension fund is subject to direct political control, the worse its investment returns.
	www.techcentralstation.com /042104G.html (812 words)

	Pension Search: Help us find missing participants (PBGC.gov) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When a company's pension plan is transferred to PBGC, the company is sometimes unable to locate persons who participated in that plan and is hence unable to give them any benefits they may be owed.
		"Defined benefit" pension plans are traditional pension plans which promise to pay a specific monthly amount to participants when they retire.
		Funds deposited in a financial institution, such as a bank by their former company
	www.pbgc.gov /search (621 words)

	Hedge Funds for Nordic Pension Funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pension fund managers are becoming more involved in the individual selection of funds.
		This presentation will examine how institutional investors in other regions use hedge funds, with a view to uncovering the depth and breadth of the hedge fund market, and the relevance of this investment vehicle for the pension fund manager.
		This presentation will show you how a pension fund overcame a lack of transparency, and lack of access to the positions of their hedge fund investment.
	www.eubfn.com /conferences/iqpc_hedge.htm (1516 words)

	Pension Funds - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Founded in 1955, the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan is the largest collectively bargained pension plan in the United States with $24 billion in total assets.
		U.S. pension funds are taking on a little more risk in an effort to keep pace with their...
		Pension funds are a means for individuals to save for their retirement.
	pension.fmqg.com /index.php?k=Pension-funds (867 words)

	Pension funds pinched, stirring calls for reform \| csmonitor.com
		As recently as 2001 - and for all of the 1990s - the pension funds of the SandP 500 firms, taken as a whole, were fully funded.
		The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which insures the traditional "defined benefit" pensions of 44 million Americans, has seen such a deterioration in its long-term financial position in the last year or so that the General Accounting Office recently put the PBGC on its "high-risk" list of government programs.
		Some firms with underfunded pension funds fear that a run of concerned employees seeking lump-sum payments will deplete their fund quickly, creating a severe financial burden for the firm.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0903/p01s01-usec.html (964 words)

	Canadian Pension Funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In moves that underline their commitment to retail real estate, the nation's three largest pension funds are flexing their investment muscle with important recent purchases of shopping center properties and interests in development companies, both at home and in the United States.
		The pension fund's membership comprises around 1,100 employers with 26,000 employees in the province of Ontario.
		The fund represents 155,000 elementary and secondary school teachers in the province.
	www.icsc.org /srch/sct/current/sct9903/18.htm (1070 words)

	Mutual Funds and Pension Funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Are the structural changes in mutual funds investing driving the U.S. stock market to its current levels?" M. Mosebach and M. Najand, 1999, 22 (3), 317-329.
		"A comparison of indexing and beta among pension and nonpension assets," S.M. Horan, 1998, 21 (3), 255-275.
		"Cognitive dissonance and mutual fund investors," W.N. Goetzmann and N. Peles, 1997, 20 (2), 145-158.
	www.badm.sc.edu /jfr/mutualfunds.htm (413 words)

	Corporate Actions Rob Public Pension Funds
		Since January 2001, the nation's public pension funds, covering more than 5 million state, county and municipal workers and retirees, have lost approximately $240 billion, or 14 percent of their value, estimates AFSCME director of pension investment policy Rich Ferlauto.
		Public pensions, he says, are designed to cope with the ebb and flow of business cycles.
		To restore investor confidence, which enourages investment and ulimately protects workers' pension fund assets, activists are keeping up the fight for corporate governance reform.
	www.afscme.org /publications/primetime/pt03106.htm (643 words)

	Pension funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Use Pension Angel to compare the different endowment options on the market and understand all the risks and advantages of selling or trading your endowment.
		Find out more about pensions and why this is the most important investment you might ever make..
		Pension advisors can help you by suggesting ways to get better returns from your pension scheme and will advise you on returns from your pension scheme taking into account tax and pension fees.
	www.pensionangel.co.uk /pension-funds_7703.html (363 words)

	Derivatives for Pension Funds
		A large number of life insurance companies and pension funds in the UK are now starting to take a great interest in how they can access the "good" side of derivatives, without accessing the "bad".
		Indeed, in a mirror image of the securities fund, it is expected that these two types of fund will spend most of their time investing in derivatives with the occasional foray into the underlying equity or bond.
		These reports should be sufficient for the fund manager to monitor her positions, for the Chief Investment Officer to monitor the fund management activity, for the Compliance department to check whether the investment guidelines are being obeyed and for the Board to be able to fulfill its statutory obligations of control.
	www.derivativesforpensionfunds.com /monitor.htm (2195 words)

	Pension Funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some of these funds may not be applicable to your particular contract.
		Some of these funds may not be applicable to your particular scheme or contract.
		These funds are generally available to defined benefit and defined contribution schemes administered outside Prudential which access our pooled funds on an investment only basis.
	www.pru.co.uk /content/fundprices/pension (346 words)

	Pension Funds
		The founders are attorney Allen Engerman and CPA Paul Holzman, a former IRS pension agent.
		Employees may find that their bonus amounts are not included in their pension computations even though all compensation is supposed to be included for this purpose.
		NCRB specializes in reviewing the formulas for contributions, the investment patterns of the fund and the proper levels of eligibility, and in making sure the correct computer math is applied to the contributions.
	www.grandtimes.com /pension.html (827 words)

	Pension Funds and Pension Providers - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Pension Funds section provides you with fundamental information on the funds within your pension scheme or assists your search for a pension if you are looking to invest.
		Via the drop down menus you also have the option of sorting the tables by sector, separating funds still open from those that have closed or selecting funds eligible for a Stakeholder pension.
		Fund profile pages also show additional 1, 3 and 6 month performance data that cannot be viewed on Prices & Performance pages.
	www.yourmoney.com /investments/funds/pension_funds (232 words)

	AusStats : Pension funds
		each individual trustee of the fund is a fund member and
		if the trustee of the fund is a body corporate each director of the body corporate is a member of the fund.
		At 30 June 2002 the ABS estimate for claims by households on government for these outstanding liabilities was $121.1b.
	www.abs.gov.au /ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3EFBB7DD6894F329CA256CAE001652D3 (457 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| Argentina seizes pension funds
		The Argentine government has said it is to use money held in private pension funds to help pay its bills.
		The move is the latest measure to be carried out by the government as it struggles to avoid defaulting on its $132bn debt.
		The country's economy minister Domingo Cavallo said the pension deposits - from a compulsory payment system set up in 1994 - would be transformed into treasury bonds or government-guaranteed loans.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/business/newsid_1696000/1696010.stm (493 words)

	Pension Funds - Sectors - HCW
		The Horwath Clark Whitehill National Pensions Group is a dedicated, specialist unit providing assurance services to Trustees of around 400 schemes nationally.
		Our approach is to work in partnership with Trustees and the pension fund management team.
		The Pensions Group is one of only four areas of excellence in the firm which means that pension funds are strategically more important to us than to other larger firms of accountants.
	www.horwathcw.com /sector/pension/main.htm (303 words)

	Fund Information – Pension Investment Funds
		The Pension Investment Funds can be invested in through a range of defined contribution pension products including Flexible Pension Plan (FPP), personal pensions (s226), FSAVCs (Free Standing Additional Voluntary Contribution Schemes) and Section 32 (Transfer Plan).
		To view fund information in the form of a fact sheet simply click on the name of the fund shown.
		In exceptional circumstances, a request to change funds or transfer benefits may be deferred for up to one month for investments in the investment-linked funds or six months for the Property Fund.
	uk.standardlife.com /content/policy/sl_funds/PS1/prices.html (373 words)

	APT - Risk Model & Portfolio Analytics Solutions for Pension Funds
		APT's system is used by national, state and corporate pension funds, both for oversight/monitoring and directly for asset management - for every asset class and across all geographical regions.
		APT's portfolio analysis system and risk models offer the pension fund comprehensive risk estimation and decomposition, portfolio construction tools, scenario and stress testing, and performance measurement.
		Take a look at what other software, risk models and portfolio analytics are available, or contact APT for a presentation, demonstration and example risk report for your fund.
	www.apt.com /en/solutions/pensionfunds.html (423 words)

	pension funds
		Our pensions law attorneys provide practical counseling to sponsoring employers, trustees, and plan administrators involved in running occupational pension plans on all aspects of legislative,...
		PENSION FUNDSPROFILEPension funds are a means for individuals to save for their...
		Company pension funds for their employees provide on average about 30,000 yen a month to supplement the public...
	www.structuredsettlementcompany.com /pension-funds.html (471 words)

	UK - Products and services - Pension One investment funds
		In addition to the funds shown above, we also provide a number of funds that are linked to the funds of external managers.
		To access fund descriptions click on the name of the fund.
		The price shown is the price at which units in each of the Investment Funds are both bought and sold on 04/11/2005.
	uk.standardlifeinvestments.com /content/products/sl_funds/PS4/prices.html (322 words)

	Hedge Funds for Pension Funds Amsterdam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Our programs are structured to share knowledge and experience from the pension funds themselves, combined with input from a small selection of forward thinking managers.
		Whether our speakers and delegates are actively investing in hedge funds, or simply looking towards this market to expand an alternative investment strategy, attendees benefit enormously from the experience of institutional peers.
		It has been suggested that over 50% of hedge fund collapses are down to operational hurdles as oppose to delivering alpha.
	www.eubfn.com /arts/iqpc_april28.htm (1860 words)

	pension funds Finance - pensions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Find pension actuary jobs through DW Simpson on our pension, investment, life and health actuarial employment page.
		Provides investment advisory services to individuals, corporations and pension fund clients.
		At least six Iraqi police die and more are injured in an insurgent attack near the city of Baquba.
	www.webnet365.info /pensions/pension_funds.html (151 words)

	pension funds performance measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Italy there is not a large literature on performance measurement of investment fund manager and there is very little on pension funds performance measurement mainly due to the difficult of getting data.
		The tendency is to concentrate on mutual funds since that data is much more available.
		Can you tell me if there are academic research centres focused on pensions research with particular emphasis on the pension funds management and performance?
	list.community.co.uk /pipermail/actuary-pension/2000/000017.html (241 words)

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