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IAPF Member Services 37 About You and Us 38 Global knowledge. Local delivery. Benefits of Membership 39 In today’s economy, you need advisors with a breadth of skills and expertise. With insights Representation 40 into your specific business issues. Who can work with you to develop the right solutions.
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IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 5 CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE
CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE
PETER FAHY REFORM CHAIRPERSON Last year, I lamented the lack of progress on the reform front. This year we have been bombarded with reform proposals.
In February, the Government published its Roadmap for Pensions INTRODUCTION Reform 2018 – 2023. The Department Welcome to the 22nd edition of the of Employment Affairs and Social IAPF Yearbook, the essential reference Protection subsequently published two guide for all those involved in pensions consultation documents in relation in Ireland. We hope you find it useful to the roadmap, one on reform of during 2019. the State pension system and the second a strawman for the automatic At the IAPF, our mission statement enrolment retirement savings system continues to be the delivery of secure, element of the roadmap, summarising fair and simple pensions in Ireland. indicative terms for the new auto- We seek to do so by advocating for enrolment system for comment. appropriate policy change, by research Separately, an interdepartmental and by informing and educating our pensions reform group published a Your partners in pensions law members on both current regulation comprehensive consultation paper on and on best practice. reform of current pension products, Leading domestic and international companies, financial harmonisation of tax rules, the current We benefit hugely from the expertise institutions and trustees operating in Ireland rely on the expertise tax relief system and approved and commitment of our Committee retirement funds. We have responded of A&L Goodbody’s Pensions Group for solutions to their most members, who contribute on a in depth to each of these consultation complex pension problems. voluntary basis, and from the strong papers, and we have also had extensive leadership shown by our Council formal and informal contacts with the members. We also benefit from a very relevant Departments regarding the For further information please contact your A&L Goodbody partners: capable executive team, led by our entire reform agenda, and continue to David Main David Francis Chris Comerford CEO, Jerry Moriarty. do so. +353 1 649 2602 +353 1 649 2380 +353 1 649 2923 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] I want to thank both our staff and Our key aims in all of this are to our voluntary contributors for their support the introduction of an auto- hard work and dedication throughout enrolment system which enhances, www.algoodbody.com what has been a very busy year for the rather than disrupts or damages Association. DUBLIN / BELFAST / LONDON / NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO / PALO ALTO
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IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 7 CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE
the pension schemes sponsored and appropriate use of the ability under administered by our members, and the Directive to exempt schemes with to continue to press for reform and fewer than 100 members from some or simplification of the current tax and all of the Directive’s more onerous and regulatory system. We have had a very costly provisions, at least for a period. co-operative engagement with the The UK, which is due to leave the EU relevant Departments, and while we next year, published its transposing welcome this we do not underestimate regulations last month. Notably, the the challenges ahead. UK has exempted pension schemes We encourage you, as our members, of less than 100 members from many to continue to input to this dialogue, of the more onerous and costly as it is your voice as pension scheme compliance requirements of the sponsors and Trustees which the Directive, including the key function Government wishes to hear. and own risk assessment requirements.
REGULATION OF Once the Irish implementation regime becomes clearer, we will be TRUSTEES engaging in an extensive analysis and The Pensions Authority was also active education process to assist our Trustee in 2018, publishing its consultation members in grappling with the new paper on the regulation of master requirements of the Directive. trusts, and providing initial guidance There will also be additional reporting on how it proposes to regulate Trustees requirements for schemes in 2019, in the new, post-IORP II, world. with larger schemes (at a minimum) The IORP II or Second Pensions required to provide quarterly statistical Directive must be transposed into data to the European Central Bank. Irish law by 13 January 2019, and as We have met with the ECB and the of the time of writing the transposing Central Bank of Ireland to discuss the regulations or legislation have not requirements and made significant been published by the Government. progress in ensuring that they are The Directive will introduce a step proportionate. change in the governance and compliance obligations of Irish DEFINED BENEFIT pension Trustees, and significant lead REFORM time will be necessary for Trustees The legislation to impose certain to fully assimilate and implement its minimum funding obligations on requirements. sponsors of defined benefit schemes We have called on the Government and to reform the funding standard to publish the Irish transposing remains within the Government’s legislation as soon as possible. We have legislative programme but has not also asked the Government to make moved forward. We welcome further
8 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 Opening Doors in Ireland
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503 MHC IAPF Full Page advert - 2018 Yearbook (130mmx228mm).indd 1 18/10/2018 14:27:03 CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE The knowledge to progress in relation to this key piece of the vital role played by our members in benefit your business legislation, and will continue to engage providing retirement benefits to many with the Government in relation to it. thousands of Irish people. Pension lawyers you can rely on CONCLUSION Finally, I would like to again acknowledge the great work done, on Change is finally on the horizon, a voluntary basis, by the members of though regrettably it appears that the Council and our Committees. They compliance burden for Trustees is give their time and expertise on behalf going to increase before the benefits of of our members and work to ensure tax simplification, funding standard people in Ireland can have pensions reforms and the other more favourable that are secure, fair and simple. elements of the Government’s Roadmap have kicked in. I would also like to thank the staff of the Association for their excellent work The IAPF is committed to helping throughout what has been a very busy our members navigate through these year. challenging times, and to ensuring Peter Fahy that both the Government and the At Eversheds Sutherland we take pension issues off your Pensions Authority are reminded of Chairperson hands and resolve them. Trust our team to provide the right advice in areas such as: – scheme governance According to clients, Peter Fahy is “brilliant and very practical. While – compliance many lawyers get caught up in – documentation semantics, he comes up with clear solutions.” – funding Consultant Fiona Thornton “has – investment a huge understanding of the – benefit restructuring cogs and machinery behind the pensions industry,” according – mergers and wind ups to one client, who goes on to describe her as an “extremely – dispute resolution solution-oriented, very efficient – trustee training and productive lawyer.” FORESTRY INVESTMENT for Irish Pension Funds For more information on how our pensions team can help you, please contact: Forestry is a sustainable core investment for Irish Pension Funds that has Peter Fahy been characterised by positive real long-term returns with low volatility. Head of Pensions +353 1 6644 206 IForUT has managed Irish pension fund investments in forestry for the [email protected] past 25 years. We now hold over €320 million of asset backed forestry Fiona Thornton investments in the Irish bio-economy and overseas. Consultant +353 1 6644 326 Phone (01) 862 3440 [email protected] Email [email protected] Web www.iforut.ie eversheds-sutherland.ie
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At Eversheds Sutherland we take pension issues off your hands and resolve them. Trust our team to provide the right advice in areas such as: – scheme governance According to clients, Peter Fahy is “brilliant and very practical. While – compliance many lawyers get caught up in – documentation semantics, he comes up with clear solutions.” – funding Consultant Fiona Thornton “has – investment a huge understanding of the – benefit restructuring cogs and machinery behind the pensions industry,” according – mergers and wind ups to one client, who goes on to describe her as an “extremely – dispute resolution solution-oriented, very efficient – trustee training and productive lawyer.”
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Your IAPF Council comprises of 13 members who all act as directors of the Association. Council generally meets once a month and it is tasked with developing policy positions, the strategy of the Association and the oversight of operations and finance.
Peter Fahy Eunice Dreelan Brian Buggy Chairperson Vice-Chairperson Secretary Partner Director Strategy Partner Head of Pensions & Change Head of the Eversheds Sutherland Irish Life Financial Pensions Group Services Matheson
Colm Fortune Roz Briggs Kevin Cruise O’Shea Treasurer Ex-Chair of the Head of Client Head of Reward Trustee Group Relationship Management Musgrave Group plc Microsoft Mercer
14 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 Tony Fleming Peter Griffin John Griffith Pension Fund Trustee Director Senior Business EirGrid APT Workplace Development Manager Pensions Limited & Client Services KBI Global Investors Ltd
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IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 15 IAPF OFFICE
IAPF OFFICE
IAPF Telephone: + 353 1 6612427 Suite 2 Email: [email protected] Slane House Website: www.iapf.ie 25 Lower Mount Street Join us at: www.linkedin.com Dublin D02 V029 Follow us: @iapf_info Ireland EXPECT EXCELLENCE Jerry Moriarty Deirdre Ross Chief Executive Officer Commercial Operations Manager [email protected] [email protected]
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Arthur Cox’s Pensions Group is a leading team in the Irish pensions sector.
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IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 17 PAST CHAIRPERSONS
PAST CHAIRPERSONS
The IAPF has maintained its prominent position in the pensions community with consistent leadership from specialists. We thank them all for their contributions before, during and after their tenure as Chairperson.
2015 – 2017 Jim Foley 1993 – 1995 Anne Maher
2013 – 2015 Rachael Ingle 1991 – 1993 Alan Broxson
2011 – 2013 Maurice Whyms 1989 – 1991 Patrick Gallagher
2009 – 2011 Marie Collins 1987 – 1989 Eamonn P Heffernan
2007 – 2009 Patrick Burke 1985 – 1987 Gerald F Colleary
2005 – 2007 Joe Byrne 1983 – 1985 Frank J Close
2003 – 2005 Gerry Ryan 1982 – 1983 Gerald P Langford
2001 – 2003 John Feely 1979 – 1982 Brian A Duncan
1999 – 2001 Tom Finlay 1976 – 1979 M Louis Slater (RIP)
1997 – 1999 Paul O’Faherty 1973 – 1976 John H Sedgwick (RIP)
1995 – 1997 Brian Aylward Matheson. The law firm of choice for internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland.
Brian Buggy and Deirdre Cummins lead a team of experienced Ireland Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year International Tax Review 2018 pensions and benefits lawyers advising on all areas of Winner, Eight Deals of the Year, in M&A, pension law. This includes the establishment of Revenue- Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital approved pension schemes, employee benefit schemes, Markets, Financial Services, Loans and Financing regulatory compliance and trustee issues, pension scheme Finance Dublin Awards 2018
reorganisations and wind-ups, and pensions-related litigation. ILO Client Choice Award Winner for Litigation in Ireland Contact Brian Buggy, Partner, [email protected], International Law Office Client Choice Awards 2018 Deirdre Cummins, Partner, [email protected] International Firm in the Americas or your usual contact at Matheson. International Tax Review 2017
18 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 www.matheson.com Matheson. The law firm of choice for internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland.
Brian Buggy and Deirdre Cummins lead a team of experienced Ireland Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year International Tax Review 2018 pensions and benefits lawyers advising on all areas of Winner, Eight Deals of the Year, in M&A, pension law. This includes the establishment of Revenue- Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital approved pension schemes, employee benefit schemes, Markets, Financial Services, Loans and Financing regulatory compliance and trustee issues, pension scheme Finance Dublin Awards 2018 reorganisations and wind-ups, and pensions-related litigation. ILO Client Choice Award Winner for Litigation in Ireland Contact Brian Buggy, Partner, [email protected], International Law Office Client Choice Awards 2018 Deirdre Cummins, Partner, [email protected] International Firm in the Americas or your usual contact at Matheson. International Tax Review 2017
www.matheson.com IAPF STRUCTURE
IAPF STRUCTURE
The IAPF is led by Council, who shape the strategies and policies of the Association. They are supported by a number of Committees who meet monthly, and Working Groups who meet on an ad hoc basis. Members volunteer their expertise and experience to the IAPF and we express our gratitude for their ongoing work and contribution to the Association.
IAPF COUNCIL (PETER FAHY, CHAIRPERSON)
REPRESENTATION PENSIONS EUROPE (JERRY MORIARTY, CEO)
REGIONAL – BENEFITS DC INVESTMENT FORUMS SOUTHERN (PETER GRIFFIN) (COLM FORTUNE) (JOHN GRIFFITH) (JOHN O’CALLAGHAN) TAILOR-MADE INVESTMENT SOLUTIONS
At Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM), we Our flexible approach to pensions and investments allows usto understand that a one-size-fits-all strategy does not work. Blending work with our clients to engineer bespoke solutions which will suit leading edge investment strategies and expert engagement, we their individual risk and return profiles. It is this approach, with over ensure that the needs of each client are fully matched. That’s why 8 €73 billion* in assets under management that has made us a leading REGULATORY & LARGE FUNDS of the 10 biggest Irish quoted companies choose Irish Life to fund manager. ADMINISTRATION (TONY MURRAY) manage their pension funds. (TOM GILLIGAN)
*As at 31st August 2018. Investments may fall as well as rise.
To find out how we can help you, please contact: Eunice Dreelan, Director – Investment Development IAPF OFFICE +353 1 704 2414 (PAGE 16) For more information see www.ilim.com
Irish Life Investment Managers Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Irish Life Assurance plc is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. PENSIONS • INVESTMENTS • LIFE INSURANCE Irish Life Investment Managers and Irish Life is part of the Great-West Lifeco group of companies PENSIONS • INVESTMENTS • LIFE INSURANCE
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At Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM), we Our flexible approach to pensions and investments allows usto understand that a one-size-fits-all strategy does not work. Blending work with our clients to engineer bespoke solutions which will suit leading edge investment strategies and expert engagement, we their individual risk and return profiles. It is this approach, with over ensure that the needs of each client are fully matched. That’s why 8 €73 billion* in assets under management that has made us a leading of the 10 biggest Irish quoted companies choose Irish Life to fund manager. manage their pension funds.
*As at 31st August 2018. Investments may fall as well as rise.
To find out how we can help you, please contact: Eunice Dreelan, Director – Investment Development +353 1 704 2414 For more information see www.ilim.com
Irish Life Investment Managers Limited is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Irish Life Assurance plc is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. PENSIONS • INVESTMENTS • LIFE INSURANCE Irish Life Investment Managers and Irish Life is part of the Great-West Lifeco group of companies PENSIONS • INVESTMENTS • LIFE INSURANCE
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The work of the IAPF relies heavily on the dedication TRAINING? and commitment of our members and their representatives who voluntarily give up their time.
Committee meetings generally take place once a month, with Working Groups meeting as and when important issues arise. The Committees and Working Groups are listed below: FEEDBACK
“Very well presented and interesting” AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY CHAIRPERSON PAGE “A good approach to a heavy subject”
Benefits Committee Peter Griffin 24 “Excellent presentations covering very extensive content” Regulatory & Administration Tom Gilligan 26 “Good insight overall. Content good & well delivered” Working Group
DC Committee Colm Fortune 28 IAPF TRAINING COURSES FOR TRUSTEES Investment Committee John Griffith 30 All new trustees now require training within 6 months of appointment. All trustees require training every 2 years. Failure to do this means the employer is breaking Large Funds Forum Tony Murray 32 the law.
Regional – Southern Branch John O’Callaghan 34 The Irish Association of Pension Funds provide Pensions Board approved Trustee Training suitable for all Trustees whether they are new or experienced Trustees who need to fulfill their legislative requirements and refresh their knowledge. The training courses are also suitable for those who work, at any level, on pension scheme such as scheme managers, HR staff or professional service providers. The training is separated into DB and DC specific courses and we also offer a course designed to specifically educate Trustees on investment issues.
BENEFITS OF IAPF TRUSTEE TRAINING ■ Half day comprehensive course ■ Face to face interaction with trainers ■ Pension Board approved and certified ■ Completion of course enables Trustee to meet their legal requirements ■ Opportunity to meet & discuss issues with other Trustees ■ Scheme specific courses/in house training on request ■ Independently run
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FEEDBACK
“Very well presented and interesting”
“A good approach to a heavy subject”
“Excellent presentations covering very extensive content”
“Good insight overall. Content good & well delivered”
IAPF TRAINING COURSES FOR TRUSTEES All new trustees now require training within 6 months of appointment. All trustees require training every 2 years. Failure to do this means the employer is breaking the law.
The Irish Association of Pension Funds provide Pensions Board approved Trustee Training suitable for all Trustees whether they are new or experienced Trustees who need to fulfill their legislative requirements and refresh their knowledge. The training courses are also suitable for those who work, at any level, on pension scheme such as scheme managers, HR staff or professional service providers. The training is separated into DB and DC specific courses and we also offer a course designed to specifically educate Trustees on investment issues.
BENEFITS OF IAPF TRUSTEE TRAINING ■ Half day comprehensive course ■ Face to face interaction with trainers ■ Pension Board approved and certified ■ Completion of course enables Trustee to meet their legal requirements ■ Opportunity to meet & discuss issues with other Trustees ■ Scheme specific courses/in house training on request ■ Independently run
Contact: [email protected] .:. +353 1 6612427 .:. www.iapf.ie IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 23 IAPF COMMITTEES
BENEFITS COMMITTEE
Objectives: —— Policy issues: Helping the IAPF to develop positions in relation to national pension issues such as pensions simplification, and PETER GRIFFIN to communicate those issues on your behalf. Achievements 2018: —— Practical issues: Providing “The Benefits Committee produced practical information to IAPF Trustee resource papers on managing members covering issues such both Conflicts of Interest and as funding, governance and Deferred Members. A DB Survey was market trends. also undertaken, the first in three years, which covered over €20bn in assets. All Committee outputs are available to download from the member area of the website.”
BENEFITS COMMITTEE MEMBERS TELEPHONE APT Workplace Pensions Peter Griffin, Chair 01 2063010 Limited Peter Burke Mercer 01 6039778 John Crampton Willis Towers Watson 01 6146876 Independent Trustee Elma Fox 01 6148069 Limited Stephen Gillick Mason Hayes & Curran 01 6142198 Irish Life Corporate Gillian Lynch 01 7041218 Business David Main A&L Goodbody 01 6492602 Ross Mitchell elipsLife 01 9601900 Katherine Murphy Aon 01 4705343 Brian Murray Joseph G Byrne & Sons 01 7642138 John O’Connell Trident Consulting 01 4853887
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REGULATORY & ADMINISTRATION WORKING GROUP
Objectives: —— This Group assists the Benefits Committee and meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss TOM GILLIGAN regulatory developments and administrative issues facing pension funds and administrators. Achievements 2018: in Regulation (EU) 2018/231 of “The Regulatory and Administration the European Central Bank on Working Group continued to address statistical reporting requirement for and resolve issues our members pension funds (ECB/2018/2). The faced. In 2016, we commenced work first reporting under the regulations on the draft ECB regulation on will occur in late 2019. We have been statistical reporting requirements working with the European Central for pension funds and this work Bank, Central Bank of Ireland, continued in 2017 with our response Pension Authority, PensionsEurope to the public consultation. In late on how the regulations will be 2017, we published an article in the implemented for pension funds Winter Edition of the IAPF Irish in Ireland. We have also been Pensions magazine to help explain monitoring developments by EIOPA the new reporting requirements to to collect statistical information Trustees and to raise awareness. from pension funds under the The new ECB statistical regulations IORPS directive, (EIOPA BoS/18 114 were passed on 26 January 2018 of 10 April 2018).”
REGULATORY & ADMINISTRATION TELEPHONE WORKING GROUP MEMBERS Tom Gilligan, Chair TG Consulting 087 2458938 Brian Buggy Matheson 01 2322000 Gary Colclough New Ireland 01 6172347 Ger Duggan Aon 01 4705644 Joe Fitzpatrick Invesco 01 2947667 Frank Keating Aon 021 4972628 Samantha McConnell Willis Towers Watson 01 7996542
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DC COMMITTEE
Objectives: —— Policy issues: helping the IAPF to develop positions in relation to DC issues and to communicate those issues. COLM FORTUNE —— Practical issues: providing practical information to IAPF Achievements 2018: members covering issues “The DC Committee responded around three key areas – to the Pensions Authority communication, governance consultation on Pension reform, and investment. enhanced the PQS (Pension Quality Standard) Award and produced a number of booklets and guidelines for our DC members.”
DC COMMITTEE MEMBERS TELEPHONE
Colm Fortune, Chair Microsoft 087 6183569 John Campion 083 4899821 Eleanor Cunningham McCann FitzGerald 01 6071723 Ian Devlin William Fry 01 6395064 Paul Duignan ESB 01 7026211 Newcourt Pensioneer Brian Macdonald 01 8280070 Trustees Limited Tom McLoughlin New Ireland 086 8100564 Declan O’Brien Willis Towers Watson 01 6396380 John Redmond Mercer 01 6039877 Caroline Rowan Aon 01 4705327 Thomas Synnott Zurich 01 2092196
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INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
Objectives: —— To promote better standards of investment governance among trustee groups – including preparation and JOHN GRIFFITH publication of guidelines on investment matters. Achievements 2018: —— To increase awareness “The Committee produced the of investment matters as annual Pension Investment Survey they relate to retirement and a series of “hot investment provision and to pension topics” for trustees including funds and their members. Fiduciary Management. We also undertook a Fiduciary Management survey with LCP Ireland and are considering topics such as ESG and Long Term Investing.”
INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS TELEPHONE
John Griffith, Chair KBI Global Investors Ltd 01 4384456 Paul Droop Bank of Ireland 076 6244734 Noel Friel ESB 01 7027886 Grainne Newman Mercer 01 6039725 Irish Life Investment Padraic Nolan 01 8563939 Managers John O’Donnell AIB 01 6411447 Aberdeen Standard Liam Stack 01 5230908 Investments
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LARGE FUNDS FORUM
Objectives: —— To formulate and represent the views of pension fund sponsors on relevant matters. —— To discuss, debate and promote TONY MURRAY issues of concern to pension scheme managers. Achievements 2018: “The Large Funds met and discussed a number of key issues effecting large schemes including benefit structures, the funding standard, DC developments and the various Pension related papers issued by Government over the past twelve months.”
INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS TELEPHONE
Tony Murray Coras Iompair Éireann 01 7032050 Fergal Booth An Post 01 7057258 Robert Callaghan Bank of Ireland 076 6244735 Emer Chapman RTÉ 01 2082318 Michelle Elliott Diageo Ireland 0044 7803 856336 Jim Foley Trustee Decisions Ltd 01 4410608 Keith Gore Allied Irish Banks plc 01 6414446 Construction Workers’ Anne Keogh 01 4977663 Pension Scheme James O’Loughlin Electric Ireland 01 7026502 Dermot Roarty Aer Lingus 01 8862570
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REGIONAL IAPF – SOUTHERN BRANCH
Objectives: —— To promote the regional presence of the Association. JOHN O’CALLAGHAN
Achievements 2018: “The Southern Branch held a number of successful events in Cork to help keep our members updated on IAPF policy and pension changes”
REGIONAL SOUTHERN BRANCH SUB- TELEPHONE COMMITTEE MEMBERS John O’Callaghan, Chair 021 4893118 Ray Clarke Aon 021 4357880 Kevin Cruise O’Shea Musgrave Group plc 021 4522127 Ian Geary BlackBee Investments 021 2061710 Elaine Hartnett Mercer 021 4910920 Anthony Horgan Irish Life 087 6295443 Finian O’Driscoll Invesco 087 8305692
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CPD FOR 2018 Accredited IAPF Events We are aware that our members are required to log their CPD hours for the year. Continuous Professional Development is an integral part of our member’s careers not only for Pension Professionals but also for Trustees who are required to satisfy the Pensions Authority legal requirements with regards to their ongoing training. As part of our overall services, the IAPF provide seminars, training and conferences which are designed to help, inform and educate members and can form part of appropriate training for CPD. Please navigate to our website to see the list of 2017 events in order to determine the exact hours awarded for any events you have attended and the related codes from the appropriate external awarding bodies. We hope that this is of help to you when you are logging your appropriate training. If you have a query relating to CPD hours please contact the relevant awarding body.
2018 Events: www.iapf.ie | [email protected] www.iapf.ie/Events/CPD 01 6612427 | @iapf_info 36 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 Section 2 IAPF MEMBER SERVICES
IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 37 IAPF MEMBER SERVICES
ABOUT YOU “Membership of the IAPF is very important to our Trustees in that AND US it provides support and training on an ongoing basis. In addition, the Trustee seminars provide a platform The IAPF Yearbook 2019 gives for discussion on latest legislative you a concise overview of the connection the Association has and industry changes, supported by with you, our members. We help to expert opinion. We encourage our frame the Irish pension community Trustees to attend as many seminars by facilitating the support, network as possible, with a view to staying up and knowledge resources to help to date with the considerable changes you grow your career and your that occur in pensions legislation and pension scheme. compliance, annually.”
About You Fergal Booth Our community of comprises An Post of pension trustees, HR and retirement saving professionals. Our events and online library help About Us you understand and learn more Since 1973, the IAPF has about Irish pensions, through represented Irish pension savers extending your Irish pension and you. The Association is network and best practice advice. Ireland’s only representative body No matter what your role in the for occupational pension schemes. Irish pension community, we are By providing a forum for our here to encourage and support you. members to network and learn from the experience of others, we channel the power of our collective voice to lobby government to create a platform for secure, fair and simple retirement in Ireland. We host thought-provoking conferences and unrivalled networking opportunities, publish practical guides, surveys and research. We exist to help you navigate the modern and evolving Irish pension landscape.
38 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
BENEFITS OF “Our membership to the IAPF has MEMBERSHIP been extremely valuable as it has provided us with direct access to a vast trustee network whereby we can —— Regular pension events: better understand the problems faced —— four annual conferences by trustees in order to find practical solutions. Membership to the IAPF —— discount rates to IAPF seminars is integral if you are truly committed —— Trustee Only to improving retirement provision in Networking events Ireland.’’ —— Regional round-table events —— Regular policy updates Ken Tooze Aberdeen Standard Investments —— Free “Irish Pensions” magazine four times per year
—— Free subscription to European —— Access to a network of pensions Pensions Magazine worth €220 expertise drawn from our member annually organisations —— Member only access to pension —— DC Trustee Packs surveys, research, benchmarking studies and guidelines Focused On Your Needs —— Independent, reduced rate The IAPF is the authoritative voice Trustee Training of Irish pensions. We are your representative body. We successfully —— Dedicated team within IAPF channel the power of our members’ to answer queries and provide collective voices. Be a part of information influencing change, be the difference and make your voice heard where it matters.
For further information contact the IAPF Tel: (01) 6612427 Email: [email protected] www.iapf.ie/MemberServices Follow us: @iapf_info
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IAPF REPRESENTATION
We represent our members’ interests at all levels by engaging “We seek to with the Government, opposition parties, the Pensions Authority, the influence the future Revenue Commissioners and other direction of pensions relevant agencies and organisations. We actively publicise issues through in Ireland for our the media. In 2018 we engaged members and to with, amongst others: strive for a secure, —— Department of Finance —— Department of Employment fair and simple Affairs and Social Protection pensions system” —— Pensions Authority —— Central Bank —— OECD —— LIA —— ICTU —— Insurance Ireland —— ECB —— Sustainable Nation Ireland —— CSO —— Law Society —— EIOPA —— American Chamber of —— Political Parties Commerce Ireland —— Society of Actuaries in Ireland —— Corporate Governance Association of Ireland —— Sustainable & Responsible Investment Forum (SIF) Ireland
We continue to engage with the media in highlighting issues and providing input on articles, discussions and interviews in relation to the design, funding and tax treatment of pension schemes.
40 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 IAPF REPRESENTATION
EUROPEAN UPDATE
IAPF REPRESENTATIVE: JERRY MORIARTY
The IAPF represents your interests at European level directly and through our membership of PensionsEurope. This allows us to track and assess legislation as it is being prepared at European level and feed into the process to ensure pension provision is not negatively impacted. Jerry Moriarty is Vice Chairperson on the Board of PensionsEurope and also chairs the DC Committee and Brexit Working Group. Jerry was also recently appointed to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority’s Stakeholder Group.
Much of our legislation originates PensionsEurope represents national in Europe and among the issues associations of pension funds and being worked on in 2018 were Brexit, similar institutions for workplace EIOPA’s work on a pan-European and other funded pensions. DC Framework, EMIR, the EU’s Capital Markets Union and Financial PensionsEurope has 23 member Transaction Tax, the implementation associations in 18 EU Member of the IORP II Directive, the States and 3 other European European Commission’s work on countries. a Pan-European Personal Pension produce and ESG issues. PensionsEurope member organisations cover different There was also a lot of work during types of workplace pensions the year on the new reporting for over 110 million people. requirements being introduced by Through its Member Associations both the European Central Bank PensionsEurope represents more and EIOPA in 2019. Through our than €4 trillion of assets managed involvement with PensionsEurope, for future pension payments. and directly, we were able to ensure that the impact of these requirements PensionsEurope also has will take into account the nature 30 Corporate and Supporter of the Irish pensions sector and Members which are various service significant changes were made to the providers and stakeholders that original proposals. work with IORPs. IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 41 COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION
MEDIA
Through interviews and writing articles, the IAPF continues to be a respected source of pension expertise. We are regularly approached to comment on changes in legislation and proposed directions of the future of pension provision in Ireland. Covering local and national print and radio, interviews can be found on our website, alongside our press releases. Log on to www.iapf.ie/ WWW.IAPF.IE news for further reading. The IAPF remains one of the best IRISH PENSIONS online resources for the Irish MAGAZINE pensions community. Members have access to news and press Irish Pensions Magazine is a releases, an extensive information quarterly publication for IAPF library, trustee guidelines, this members. Providing editorial Yearbook and other publications. comment and topical articles to the Much of the information on the industry, we deliver an informed website is restricted to the member- and interesting seasonal snapshot only area in order to be an exclusive of Irish Pensions. Circulated benefit of membership. to all members and kindred By issuing press releases, authoring organisations, it is the ideal articles, providing interviews medium for services providers and commentary for television, to promote their products to our print media and national and local extensive membership of Trustees, radio, we engage with the media Pension Managers, Finance to represent our members. This Directors, Practitioners and can be on specific issues or HR Directors. providing general input. Copies of press releases and links to appearances are available in the Newsroom section of the IAPF website www.iapf.ie/News
42 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 COMMUNICATION
MEDIA COVERAGE FOR 2018
These are some of the media outlets the IAPF received Press Coverage in over the course of the year.
“The pensions community has been crying out for a simplification of pension and tax rules for some time. There are currently too many rules which confuse and frustrate those attempting to save for retirement,”
Jerry Moriarty Irish Examiner, 01 March 2018
SOCIAL MEDIA
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IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 43 SUBMISSIONS AND SURVEYS
SUBMISSIONS AND SURVEYS
We regularly make submissions to DEFINED BENEFIT key bodies such as the Department SURVEY 2018 of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Department of Finance —— Approximately 74% of and the Pensions Authority. Copies participating companies have are available at www.iapf.ie legacy DB arrangements in place which are closed to new PENSION FUND members, with half of these INVESTMENT being closed to future accrual —— 44% of schemes have over 1000 SURVEY 2017 members, with 48% of schemes having less than 500 members —— The value of Irish pension savings grew to €147.6bn, a rise —— Almost one third of schemes of around €20 billion have assets in excess of €500m —— This is the highest level of —— Smaller schemes would appear pension assets recorded. Pension to be matching their pensioner savings had fallen to €63.5 liabilities to a greater extent than billion at the end of 2008 and larger schemes have now more than doubled in —— Defined contribution the intervening period schemes continue to be the —— Savings in Defined Benefit overwhelming choice for a schemes amount to just over €91 replacement scheme on the billion with those in Defined closure of a DB plan Contribution schemes totalling —— Level/fixed rate or matching over €56 billion contributions are the most —— Defined Benefit savings common DC contribution rate represent 61.8%, while Defined structures Contribution savings represent —— More than 60% of replacement 38.2% of total assets DC schemes had a minimum —— Almost €20 billion of Defined employer contribution rate of Benefit assets are now invested 6% or greater and maximum in alternative asset classes employer contribution rates exceed 10% in 50% of cases —— Approximately 40% of schemes provide higher employer contribution rates for former DB members in DC schemes 44 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 SUBMISSIONS AND SURVEYS
—— DC default investment strategies October 2018 are now using a variety of The Pensions Authority on Pension different glidepaths at retirement Reform Consultation on Pensions —— 63% of schemes surveyed have on the Regulation of Defined de-risked their investment Contribution Master Trusts strategy The IAPF responded to this paper detailing an opinion of the —— ETV exercises are becoming consolidation of current Master more common with almost a Trust schemes, the role a Trustee third of schemes having already could play in multiple schemes implemented these or likely to and access to capital. do so —— Over 50% of schemes who pay October 2018 discretionary pension increases IDPRTG’ s Consultation on have not awarded any increases Supplementary Pensions Reform for over 8 years Under the umbrella of the Department of Finance, the The Department of Employment Interdepartmental Pensions Affairs and Social Protection Reform and Taxation Group issued their “Roadmap for Pensions issued a Consultation-Paper on Supplementary Pensions Reform. Reform 2018-2023” in the snow of The IAPF’s response included points Spring 2018. A number of other on simplification, ARFs, pension consultations were issued as a savings vehicles. result. The IAPF reached out to members asking for comments, November 2018 which formed the basis of our Consultation Paper: A summary responses. All submission are of the Automatic Enrolment (AE) available from our website proposal for employees into a on: www.iapf.ie/Publications/ retirement savings system Submissions As well as considering members’ inputs, each Committee examined the Roadmap in detail and submitted December 2017 suggestions. There were brought The Pensions Authority on together by Council to form our Pension Consultation on Key submission. This included our views Function Holders on the correct establishment of a Each of the Authority’s twenty Central Processing Authority (CPA), questions were answered in the the use of commercial providers, the IAPF submission. proposed thresholds and timeframes for workers being accepted into automatic enrolment and its interaction with current schemes.
IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 45 RESEARCH
RESEARCH
The following are available for IAPF GUIDELINES download from the IAPF website - www.iapf.ie We have produced a number of guidelines that will help IAPF GUIDES our members administer their schemes. Each committee aims to publish —— Management of Deferred new guides and review old ones Members that will assist our members in —— Conflicts of Interest on managing their pension scheme. Trustee Boards —— DC Guidelines – Members, —— Early AVC Access Q&A Trustees and Employers —— Pension Levy —— DC Pension Scheme Risk —— Infrastructure Investment Register —— Trustee Training Log —— IAPF Defined Contribution —— Trustee Conflicts of Interest Log Guide – Planning for Retirement —— Statement of Reasonable —— Trustee Governance Projection – Requirements —— IAPF Defined Contribution —— Made Simple Articles Investment Guidelines – for Trustees Guidance on Compliance —— Wind Up Checklist —— IAPF Defined Benefit —— IAPF Investment Guidelines Investment Guidelines – —— Keeping in Contact Guidance on Compliance with Members —— Investment Topics —— Investment Guidelines
IAPF InvestmentGuidelines
Defined Contribution
Guidance on compliance
January 2010
46 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 RESEARCH
IAPF INVESTMENT TOPICS
Your Investment Committee has produced a number of short guides on specific investment topics that should be useful to Trustees, in particular, in discussions with their advisors.
—— Fiduciary Management —— Custody —— Alternative Investments —— Matrix of Pension Fund Risks —— Currency Hedging —— ESG Investing —— Smart Beta —— Illiquid Assets —— Investing Post Retirement —— Investing in a Low Yield Environment —— Consequences of Excessive Prudence —— Diversified Growth Funds —— The Impact of the passive- active decision
IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 47 EVENTS
EVENTS
EVENTS IAPF KEY DATES FOR 2019 The IAPF produces the largest educational programme of pension related events in Ireland. Through 28 FEB IAPF Annual Dinner a diverse set of events such as Conferences, Breakfast Briefings, 28 MAR IAPF Investment Trustee Networks and Social Events, Conference Members can come together to 11 APR IAPF Annual Golf share their knowledge and expertise Outing and network with their peers. 30 MAY IAPF DC Conference
03 OCT IAPF Benefits Conference
28 NOV IAPF Governance Conference
*Dates are subject to change
48 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 EVENTS
THANK YOU TO OUR 2018 SPONSORS
IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 49 EVENTS
IAPF GOVERNANCE CONFERENCE
30 November 2017 Printworks, Dublin Castle 203 Attendees CPD: 4 Hours Sponsored by Trustee Decisions and Schroders
2017 Topics —— When Governance goes wrong... —— ESG – Why is it important and how does it make a difference? —— What’s coming next? The things trustees should be worrying about —— CMA review of investment consultancy and fiduciary management services
Feedback “As a Trustee I found this conference extremely on point. Not only did it scare me a little it also gave very good practical applications. Well done!” “Always useful to hear from the Regulator” “Excellent venue, excellent facilities” “Clear and useful”
Sponsored by:
50 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 EVENTS
IAPF INVESTMENT CONFERENCE “INVESTING FOR THE FUTURE”
22 March 2018 Printworks, Dublin Castle 242 Attendees CPD: 4 Hours Sponsored by Aberdeen Standard Investments
2018 Topics —— Behavioural Economics & Pensions: Some Experimental Investigations —— Getting the DC Default Strategy right —— ESG – What is it? How does it impact trustees? —— Evolution & Growth in ESG Investment —— The Best Strategies for the Worst Crises
Feedback “Pete Lunn was excellent” “Overall - very good conference” “IAPF provides a superb service to members and trustees” “Well Done!”
Sponsored by:
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IAPF DC CONFERENCE
03 May 2018 Printworks, Dublin Castle 258 Attendees CPD: 4 Hours Sponsored by New Ireland Assurance
2018 Topics —— The Roadmap for Pensions Reform - An Overview —— Towards a New Pensions Settlement: The International Experience —— Customer Centricity in Pensions —— GDPR and Pensions —— A New Approach to Drawdown on Group DC Pensions —— The Need to Prepare: Pension Policy and Adequate Income in Older Age —— How Can We Change DC Retirement?
Feedback “GDPR: Tough topic to keep interesting but presented well” “Age Action was very appropriate” “Paul Duignan excellent!” “Very good event this year - with pertinent discussion topics. Really enjoyed it”
Sponsored by:
52 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 EVENTS
IAPF BENEFITS CONERENCE
02 October 2018 Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) 287 Attendees CPD: 4 Hours Sponsored by J.P.Morgan Asset Management
2018 Topics —— What is coming next? What Trustees should be planning for.... —— A New Approach to Supervision —— What does it all mean? Panel Discussion —— New ECB Statistical Reporting Requirements —— The Future of Fixed Income is anything but Fixed —— How can Trustees become “Qualified”?
Feedback “Good mix of relevant topics” “Panel discussion was a good session, good questions & lively” “All presenters performed very well in Q&A sessions” “Good balance of speakers/topics” “Excellent well organised”
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IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 53 THE PENSIONS QUALITY STANDARD (PQS)
home pay. This is despite the fact that many employers dedicate significant time and resources to communicating the benefits of the DC pension they offer.
The IAPF promotes improved communication. If members do not understand or act appropriately PENSIONS at an early stage in their working lives this may result in unfulfilled pension expectations and extended QUALITY working lives. As a result, the IAPF believes that appropriate education STANDARD and information must be provided to ensure the reasonableness of The DC Committee worked member expectations. throughout 2018 to renew the PQS Awards. Previously we awarded While it is recognised that the “PQS and “PQS with Merit”. responsibility for providing this This will now be “PQS”, “PQS is shared by the State, employers, Merit” and “PQS Merit Plus” trustees, pension professionals, with the availability for Master representatives and individual Trusts to prove that participating members themselves, the IAPF schemes will meet governance and want to recognise those pension communications standards. schemes that attain a certain standard which reflects qualitative As Defined Contribution (DC) contribution, communication pension provision becomes and governance strategies for DC increasingly widespread there is Schemes. a growing need for individuals to develop a better understanding of The IAPF DC PQS offers key DC pensions, especially of the DC stakeholders in a DC scheme a pension offered by their employer. number of advantages:
Too often, employees have only —— The opportunity to promote the a vague idea of how much they scheme/employer to potential need to save and the amount their and existing employees. employer is willing to contribute. —— An additional tool to retain Moreover, many employers say or achieve a competitive edge that their employees have a poor against similar employers. understanding of the pension —— A means to help promote offered and tend to value pension better awareness of pension contributions less than take saving amongst employees and potential employees. 54 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 THE PENSIONS QUALITY STANDARD (PQS)
—— An extra way of building and with the relevant PQS standard, enhancing the company’s the scheme will be provided with a reputation with the public certificate endorsing its attainment and consumers. of the PQS and this can be used on relevant employee communications An employer with or trustees of a and pension’s literature, including DC scheme can apply for the PQS job advertisements etc. The award provided the scheme meets a set will be valid for three years and of core standards. Eligibility for subject to reassessment at least the PQS is based on the pension every three years after initial scheme itself – not on the average accreditation. Further details can pension provision of the employer. be obtained from www.iapf.ie/PQS Once a scheme has been accredited
AWARD NON CONTRIBUTORY CONTRIBUTORY SCHEME STANDARD SCHEME
Minimum Minimum Minimum Employer Employer Employee contribution contribution contribution
20% or 15% 5%
15% or 10% 5%
10% or 6% 4%
MASTER TRUST SCHEMES / PROVIDERS
The Pension Quality Standard Ready (PQSR) is the standard that has been designed for Master Trusts. To qualify for PQSR, a Master Trust needs to meet the PQSR standards on governance and communications. Participating schemes within a Master Trust with the PQSR are eligible for the normal PQS depending on their level of contributions. IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 55 THE PENSIONS QUALITY STANDARD (PQS)
PQS AND PQS WITH MERIT RECIPIENTS
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PQS READY MASTER TRUSTS
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Section 3 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY We are the Pension & Investment Consultants
*Corporate Pensions Consulting
*Benefits Administration
*Actuarial & Investment Consulting
Dublin tel +353 1 294 7600 www.invesco.ie Cork tel +353 21 480 8041 [email protected]
Invesco Limited is regulated by the Central Bank Of Ireland. An analysis of Invesco’s activities between those that are regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and those that are not is set out on the company’s website www.invesco.ie A
A&L Goodbody AA Ireland Ltd Retirement A&L Goodbody is internationally Benefits Scheme recognised as one of Ireland’s leading law AA Ireland is Ireland’s largest motoring firms delivering the full range of corporate services organisation providing roadside legal services. With 88 partners and a staff assistance, legal and technical services of over 700, we are an “all-island” law firm, and travel services to its customers. It is an with offices in Dublin and Belfast. We also insurance intermediary providing motor, have a strong international presence with home and life insurance products. The AA offices in London, New York, San Francisco is also active in other areas such as hotel and Palo Alto. grading, travel and traffic information, motor industry consultancy services and Our Pensions group is a market leader and garage inspections. It was established in is one of the largest pensions practices in Ireland in 1910 as a mutual association. Ireland. Our specialist team advises Irish, international, private and public sector Address clients on every aspect of occupational 61a South William Street pension schemes and personal pension Dublin 2 arrangements ranging from routine day Ireland to day scheme matters to the most high Tel: +353 1 6179411 profile and complex Irish pensions matters. Contacts Address Member Rep: Yvonne Smith IFSC HR: Yvonne Smith North Wall Quay Providers Dublin D01 H104 Investment Consultant: Lane Ireland Clark & Peacock Tel: +353 1 6492000 Auditor: RSM Ireland www.algoodbody.com Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Categories Administrator: Zurich Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Numbers DB/DC: Multi Deferred Pensioners: 23 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Active Members: 141 Contributory Total Scheme Members: 164 Fund Range: 26-100M Categories Have Member Trustees: No Integrated with State Scheme: No Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Corporate Body Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Contribution Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Fund Range: 0-25M Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Abbey Capital Limited AbbVie (“Abbey Capital”) A high Volume Solid Dosage Abbey Capital is an alternative pharmaceutical manufacturing investment fund manager (“AIFM”) company with an efficient and effective focused on managed futures and foreign workforce with a passionate and proven exchange. Founded in 2000, Dublin– ability to adapt to customer requirements based Abbey Capital allocates to the with a compliant yet agile approach. Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) Work methods and processes dedicated sector through its multi-manager funds to delivering perfect execution of utilising managed accounts. commercial manufacture and advancing the pipeline, ensuring remarkable impact Abbey Capital is a private company for our patients. limited by shares incorporated in Ireland (registration number 327102). Abbey Address Capital is regulated as an AIFM by the Fournier Laboratories Ireland Central Bank of Ireland. In the United Annagrove States of America, Abbey Capital is Carrigtwohill registered as a Commodity Pool Operator Cork and Commodity Trading Advisor with the Ireland Commodity Futures Trading Commission Tel: +353 21 4881401 (“CFTC”), is a member of the National www.abbvie.com Futures Association (“NFA”), and is Contacts registered as an Investment Advisor with Member Rep: Pauline Morrison the Securities Exchange Commission Trustee(s): Mairead Bowden, Mairead (“SEC”). The SEC does not endorse, Dunne, Pauline Morrison indemnify, or guarantee the member’s HR: Pauline Morrison business practices, selling methods, the Finance: Mairead Bowden class or type of securities offered, or any Providers specific security. Auditor: EY Solicitors: Matheson Address Administrator: Aon 1 - 2 Cavendish Row Investment Manager: ILIM, HRMSL Dublin 1 Ireland Numbers Tel: +353 1 8280400 Total Number of Employees: 139 www.abbeycapital.com Deferred Pensioners: 99 Pensioners: 1 Contacts Active Members: 110 Member Rep: Aodhagán Hurley Total Scheme Members: 210 Numbers Categories Total Number of Employees: 60 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: Yes DB/DC: Defined Contribution Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Size of Fund: €7,387,119 Fund Range: 0-25M Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Aberdeen Standard Investments Accenture Accenture plc is a multinational management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Its incorporated headquarters have been in Dublin, Ireland since September 1, 2009. Aberdeen Standard Investments is a It is the world’s largest consulting firm as leading global asset manager dedicated measured by revenues and is a Fortune to creating long-term value for clients. Global 500 company. To achieve this, we offer a comprehensive As of 2017, the company reported net range of investment capabilities, as well as revenues of $34.9 billion with over 425,000 the highest levels of service. employees, serving clients in more than Overall, we manage £583 billion* on 200 cities in 120 countries. More than behalf of clients in 80 countries. In three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 managing these assets, we employ over and 98 of our top 100 clients have worked 1,000 investment professionals and provide with us for over 10 years. client support from 50 client relationship offices globally. Address 1 Grand Canal Square The Aberdeen Standard Investments brand Grand Canal Dock was created in connection with the merger Dublin D02 FF61 of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC and Ireland Standard Life Plc on 14 August 2017 to Tel: +353 1 646200 form Standard Life Aberdeen plc. www.accenture.com Contacts *Standard Life AUM/AUA data as at 30 Member Rep: Maria Beaton June 2017, Aberdeen Asset Management AUM data as at 31 March 2017, all other Providers data as at 30 June 2017. Investment Consultant: Willis Towers Watson Address Accountant: KPMG 2-4 Merrion Row Solicitors: Arthur Cox Dublin D02 YN56 Administrator: Willis Towers Watson Ireland Numbers Tel: +353 1 5010900 Total Number of Employees: 3800 www.aberdeenstandard.com Deferred Pensioners: 1050 Contacts Active Members: 1582 Member Rep: Liam Stack Total Scheme Members: 2632 Trustee(s): Liam Stack Categories Business Development Mgr: Ken Tooze DB/DC: Defined Contribution Director: Jennifer Richards Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Size of Fund: €162,000,000 Fund Range: 101-250M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Accuro Retirement Funding Acumen & Trust
Address Acumen & Trust provide full services Brook House, Unit C4 administration, consultancy, investment Donnybrook Commercial Centre and trusteeship services to DB, DC and Douglas SSAPS schemes throughout Ireland. Our Cork Financial Planning colleagues provide Ireland personalised advice to individual members Tel: +353 21 4350806 at each step of their journey, most www.accuro.ie importantly at retirement. Contacts Address Member Rep: Clodagh Sheehan 4 & 5, The Avenue Numbers Beacon Court Total Number of Employees: 3 Sandyford Active Members: 1 Dublin 18 Total Scheme Members: 1 Ireland Tel: +353 1 2936500 www.acumenandtrust.com ACT Venture Capital Ltd Contacts Address Member Rep: Ciaran Martin 6 Richview Office Park Director: Ciaran Martin Clonskeagh Numbers Dublin 14 Total Number of Employees: 48 Ireland Deferred Pensioners: 6 Tel: +353 1 2600966 Active Members: 38 Numbers Total Scheme Members: 44 Total Number of Employees: 10 Categories Active Members: 10 Integrated with State Scheme: No Total Scheme Members: 10 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Categories Self Administered Scheme: No Integrated with State Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Contribution Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Contributory/Non-Contributory: Self Administered Scheme: No Contributory DB/DC: Defined Contribution Fund Range: 0-25M Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Fund Range: 0-25M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Insured Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
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Acuvest Limited Aer Lingus
Address Dublin Airport Dublin Ireland Tel: +353 1 8862570 Acuvest provides independent pensions www.aerlingus.com advice and investment management services to a range of public and private Contacts sector organisations in Ireland. Since Member Rep: Dermot Roarty 2003 it has worked with some of the Numbers biggest pension schemes and currently Total Number of Employees: 4000 provides services to over 10 per cent of Categories private sector workers who hold a Defined Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Contribution pension. DB/DC: Multi Size of Fund: €3,000,000,000 Privately owned it employs a team of highly Fund Range: > 500M experienced finance and communications Segregated/Unitised and Insured: professionals in its Dublin offices with Segregated, Unitised external perspectives acquired through its Have Member Trustees: Yes Innovation Group consisting of some of Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Ireland’s most senior business people from across a diverse range of industries.
Clients choose us because: AIG Europe Ltd
• We are completely independent of product Providers and other third parties • We avoid biased decisions • Our advice is focused on what is right for you and your employees • We save you time by helping you focus Non-life insurance on the right questions and providing constant oversight Address • We make your company pension 30 North Wall Quay scheme work harder for less IFSC Address Dublin 1 67 Merrion Square South Ireland Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 2081400 D02 CK11 www.aig.ie Ireland Contacts Tel: +353 1 6344510 Member Rep: Owen Kelly www.acuvest.ie Trustee(s): Marie Griffin, Andrew Moore Contacts Finance: Owen Kelly Member Rep: John Tuohy CEO/Managing Director: John Tuohy Investment: Rebekah Brady, Damian Cooper
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Providers Numbers Independent Trustee: Total Number of Employees: 46 Independent Trustee Co. Ltd Deferred Pensioners: 21 Auditor: PwC Active Members: 46 Administrator: Willis Towers Watson Total Scheme Members: 67 Investment Manager: Zurich Categories Numbers Integrated with State Scheme: No Total Number of Employees: 380 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Deferred Pensioners: 300 Self Administered Scheme: No Pensioners: 10 DB/DC: Defined Contribution Active Members: 380 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Non Total Scheme Members: 690 Contributory Categories Fund Range: 0-25M Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Have Member Trustees: Yes DB/DC: Multi Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Corporate Body Size of Fund: €70,000,000 Fund Range: 26-100M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Alan Broxson Have Member Trustees: Yes Independent Trustee Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both DB & DC Expert Witness
Airbus Financial Services Ltd Address 192 Ardmore Park Address Bray 5th Floor Co Wicklow A98 CK61 6 George’s Dock Ireland IFSC Tel: +353 87 2229138 Dublin 1 Ireland Contacts Tel: +353 1 7905514 Member Rep: Alan Broxson Trustee(s): Alan Broxson Contacts Member Rep: Trevor Lydon Trustee(s): Liz Barry, Trevor Lydon Director: Trevor Lydon Finance: Trevor Lydon Providers Investment Manager: Irish Life Solicitors: Mason Hayes & Curran Accountant: In House Investment Consultant: Lane Clark & Peacock Auditor: KPMG Administrator: APT Workplace Pensions
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Alder Capital DAC Allergan Pharmaceuticals Ireland
Alder Capital is a systematic investment Address manager established in 2000. Alder applies Castlebar Road a rigorous quantitative research process Westport to identify persistent profit opportunities Co Mayo in liquid financial markets. Alder’s Ireland investment process is built around its Tel: +353 98 25222 proprietary approach to risk forecasting; www.allergan.ie this risk management approach is applied Contacts to both of the two core strategies that Member Rep: Ed Rose invest in currency and equity markets. Trustee(s): Siobhan Camplisson Alder Capital’s proprietary approach has HR: Ed Rose provided institutional clients with access to diversified, risk management and liquid Numbers strategies for more than eighteen years. Total Number of Employees: 971 Deferred Pensioners: 1184 Address Pensioners: 112 Behan House Active Members: 971 10 Mount Street Lower Total Scheme Members: 2267 Dublin D02 HT71 Categories Ireland Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Tel: +353 1 6147232 DB/DC: Multi www.aldercapital.com Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Contacts Fund Range: 0-25M Member Rep: Brian Flanagan CAIA Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Numbers Total Number of Employees: 10 Deferred Pensioners: 4 Active Members: 10 Total Scheme Members: 14 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Contribution Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Fund Range: 0-25M Have Member Trustees: No Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
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AllianceBernstein Allianz Group Pension Scheme
Address Allianz House Elmpark Merrion Road Dublin 4 Ireland Tel: +353 1 6133000 www.allianz.ie AllianceBernstein is a leading investment- Contacts management firm with €453 billion Member Rep: Ursula Murphy in client assets under management, as Trustee(s): Audrey Benson, Ciaran Black, of June 30, 2017. We provide forward- Kevin Collins, Marie Corry, Gertie Daly, looking perspective, independent research Avril Doyle, Daniel Manahan, Ursula and investment discipline across asset Murphy classes, from equities and fixed income Finance: Marie Corry to alternatives and multi-asset portfolios. Our worldwide clients—including Providers institutional, high-net-worth and retail Investment Manager: ILIM, PIMCO, Stone investors—face new investment challenges Harbour, Permal Group, Invesco Asset and opportunities every day. Through our Management Limited unique combination of expertise, research Solicitors: Arthur Cox, Sacker & Partners and global reach, we apply collective Accountant: Mercer insights and leverage our extensive global Custodian: Northern Trust footprint to help keep our clients at the Actuary: Mercer forefront of change. Investment Consultant: Mercer Auditor: KPMG Address Administrator: Mercer 50 Berkeley Street Numbers London W1J 8HA Deferred Pensioners: 570 United Kingdom Pensioners: 412 Tel: +44 207 9594948 Active Members: 450 www.abglobal.com/institutional Total Scheme Members: 1432 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Multi Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Fund Range: 251-500M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Segregated, Unitised Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
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Allied Irish Banks plc ALPS Electric (Ireland) Limited
Address Clara Road Millstreet Town Cork P51 XC56 Ireland Tel: +353 29 30275 www.alps.ie
International bank with retail and Contacts commercial operations in the Republic of Member Rep: Noreen Dineen Ireland, Northern Ireland, Great Britain Trustee(s): Noreen Dineen and the United States of America. Capital Numbers market operations worldwide. Total Number of Employees: 450 Deferred Pensioners: 58 Address Active Members: 168 Bankcentre Total Scheme Members: 226 Ballsbridge Categories Dublin 4 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Ireland Self Administered Scheme: Yes Tel: +353 1 6600311 DB/DC: Defined Contribution www.aib.ie Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contacts Contributory Member Rep: Keith Gore Fund Range: 0-25M Pension Managers: Tony Doyle, Keith Gore Have Member Trustees: Yes Providers Custodian: BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Actuary: Mercer Amundi Asset Management Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Administrator: Aon Numbers Total Number of Employees: 10000 Deferred Pensioners: 5000 Pensioners: 4000 Active Members: 10000 Total Scheme Members: 19000 Amundi is Europe’s largest asset manager by AUM and ranks in the top 10 globally(1). Categories It manages over €1.46 trillion(2) of assets Integrated with State Scheme: Yes across six main investment hubs, of which Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Dublin is one. Amundi offers its clients a Self Administered Scheme: Yes wealth of market expertise and a full range DB/DC: Multi of capabilities across the active, passive Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both and real assets investment universes. Size of Fund: €5,000,000,000 Headquartered in Paris, Amundi is the Fund Range: > 500M 1st asset manager in Europe by market Segregated/Unitised and Insured: capitalization(3). Segregated Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Thanks to its unique research capabilities An Post Superannuation Schemes and the skills of close to 4,500 team members and market experts based in 37 Address countries, Amundi provides institutional General Post Office and corporate clients with innovative O’Connell Street investment strategies and solutions tailored Dublin DO1 F5P2 to their needs, targeted outcomes and risk Ireland profiles. Tel: +353 1 7057258 www.anpost.ie (1) Source IPE “Top 400 asset managers” Contacts published in June 2018 and based on AUM Member Rep: Fergal Booth as of end December 2017. Trustee(s): Patrick Gallagher, Anthony (2) Source Amundi as of June 30, 2018. Harmon, Patrick Knight, Brian McCormick, Sean McDonagh, Niall Phelan (3) As of June 30, 2018. Numbers Deferred Pensioners: 2776 Members Address Pensioners: 5789 1 Georges Quay Plaza Active Members: 8978 Dublin 2 Categories Ireland Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Tel: +353 1 4802000 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes www.amundi.com Self Administered Scheme: Yes Contacts DB/DC: Defined Benefit Member Rep: Michael Curran Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Providers Size of Fund: €2,971,905,000 Investment Consultant: Mercer Fund Range: > 500M Investment Manager: Amundi Asset Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Management, State Street Global Advisors, Segregated Irish Life Investment Managers, JPMorgan, Have Member Trustees: Yes Insight Investment Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Numbers Individual Trustee Total Number of Employees: 394 Deferred Pensioners: 481 Active Members: 390 Total Scheme Members: 871 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Contribution Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Size of Fund: €86,870,000 Fund Range: 26-100M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
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Analog Devices International Aon Analog Devices International is a US Multinational company specialising in the design and manufacture of integrated circuits. Analog Devices was set up in Ireland in 1976 with full manufacturing, R+D and Marketing operations. The company exports 100% of the product. There are approx. 1100 Aon is a specialist firm of HR, Actuarial, employees at its Limerick facility and Investment and Benefit Consultants with another 80 based in Cork. offices in Dublin and Cork. Our Client Service is exceptional and is delivered by Address our committed and proactive staff with the Raheen Business Park support of leading edge technology. Limerick Ireland Address Tel: +353 61 229011 Block D Contacts Iveagh Court Member Rep: Jim O’Donoghue Harcourt Road Numbers Dublin 2 Total Number of Employees: 1200 Ireland Active Members: 1200 Tel: +353 1 4189130 Total Scheme Members: 2500 www.aon.com Categories Contacts Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Member Rep: Martin Condon Self Administered Scheme: No Trustee(s): Frances Kehoe DB/DC: Defined Contribution CEO/Managing Director: Rachael Ingle Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Have Member Trustees: Yes Appian Asset Management Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
Anne Maher
Address 4 Greenfield Crescent Dublin D04 VON2 Founded in 2003, Appian Asset Ireland Management is an Irish owned Tel: +353 1 2691799 independent asset manager offering Contacts investment services to high net worth Member Rep: Anne Maher individuals, occupational and self- administered pension funds, charities Categories and affinity groups. We aim to deliver Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both sustainable, risk adjusted, returns Fund Range: > 500M over time. Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
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Put simply we preserve and grow our - APT Online and our award-winning clients’ capital through a conservative communications services. investment strategy, based on our clients’ individual requirements. The APT Master Trust eases the burden of governance and compliance for your In our multi-asset funds, we take a defined contribution scheme by passing conservative attitude to risk across all the complete regulatory responsibility to asset classes, namely cash, equities, bonds, the Master Trust Trustee. Better value is property, alternatives and commodities. achieved for members by the economies of scale associated with larger groups. Our equity portfolios consist of concentrated high conviction stocks with Address solid quality characteristics. Apex Business Centre Blackthorn Road, Sandyford Address Dublin 18 42 Fitzwilliam Place Ireland Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 2063010 Ireland www.aptworkplacepensions.com Tel: +353 1 6623001 Contacts www.appianasset.ie Member Rep: Peter Griffin Contacts Numbers Member Rep: Eugene Kiernan Total Number of Employees: 37 CEO/Managing Director: Patrick Lawless Active Members: 35 Investment: Eugene Kiernan Total Scheme Members: 39 Director: Kevin Menton Categories DB/DC: Defined Contribution APT Workplace Pensions Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Size of Fund: €1,500,000 Fund Range: 0-25M Have Member Trustees: No Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
At APT we specialise in the management of workplace pensions. Arachas Our systems and infrastructure are designed to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. We provide a robust and reliable pensions administration service, to members, trustees and plan sponsors alike. This complemented by our leading- “The Irish for insurance”. Arachas edge tailored investment solutions ensures is Ireland’s leading independently optimal member outcomes at retirement. owned insurance brokerage. We provide Our commitment to heightening truly independent employee benefits employee awareness is demonstrated and financial planning advice to our in our state-of-the-art online facility international, SME and professional
72 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 A clients through our offices in Dublin, Arnotts DC Pension Fund Cork and Waterford. Address Financial planning for every stage of life. Arnotts 12 Henry Street Address Dublin 1 The Courtyard Ireland Carmanhall Road Tel: +353 1 8050400 Sandyford Business Estate Contacts Dublin D18 X377 Pension Manager: Mark Gernon Ireland Tel: +353 1 2135000 Providers www.arachasfs.ie Investment Manager: Irish Life Contacts Member Rep: Susan Lawless Numbers Total Number of Employees: 525 Deferred Pensioners: 10 Arcadia Group Limited Pensioners: 4 Active Members: 235 Address Total Scheme Members: 249 The Quorum Categories 6th Floor Integrated with State Scheme: No Bond Street South Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Bristol BS1 3AE Self Administered Scheme: No United Kingdom DB/DC: Defined Contribution Tel: +44 117 9420080 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contacts Contributory Member Rep: Margaret Hannell Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Pension Manager: Margaret Hannell Segregated Providers Have Member Trustees: Yes Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Accountant: PwC Corporate Body Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Administrator: In House Investment Manager: Irish Life Arthur Cox Numbers Arthur Cox is one of Ireland’s leading Total Number of Employees: 300 and most innovative law firms. Today, Deferred Pensioners: 58 the firm has over 350 lawyers, including Pensioners: 3 almost 100 partners and a total staff of Total Scheme Members: 61 over 750. Arthur Cox is an “all-island” Categories firm, with offices in Dublin and Belfast. Integrated with State Scheme: No The firm also has offices in London, New Irish Pension Scheme: Yes York and Silicon Valley. The firm’s practice Self Administered Scheme: Yes encompasses all aspects of corporate and DB/DC: Defined Benefit business law, providing a comprehensive service to an international client base ranging from established global leaders and multinational organisations to government agencies and statutory bodies,
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banks and financial institutions to new Numbers players in emerging industry sectors. Total Number of Employees: 450 Deferred Pensioners: 140 The firm recently won Ireland Law Firm Active Members: 484 of the Year 2017 at the Chambers Europe Total Scheme Members: 624 Awards and received three awards at the Categories Europe Women in Law Awards 2017. Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Address Self Administered Scheme: Yes Ten Earlsfort Terrace DB/DC: Multi Dublin D02 T380 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Ireland Contributory Tel: +353 1 9201000 Size of Fund: €122,451,000 www.arthurcox.com Fund Range: 101-250M Contacts Have Member Trustees: Yes Member Rep: Catherine Austin Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Numbers Total Number of Employees: 800 Aviva Investors Categories Aviva Investors is a global business Irish Pension Scheme: Yes dedicated to building investment Self Administered Scheme: Yes solutions for clients and is wholly DB/DC: Multi owned by Aviva plc, the UK’s largest Contributory/Non-Contributory: insurer and one of Europe’s leading Contributory providers of life and general insurance. Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: We employ more than 1,000 people, Corporate Body including over 300 investment professionals in 15 countries across Asia- Pacific, Europe, the Americas and the Aughinish Alumina Ltd UK and have over €279bn of funds under management. We offer our clients in- Address depth local knowledge and understanding, Aughinish Island while leveraging the strength of our global Askeaton presence and infrastructure. Co Limerick Ireland Address Tel: +353 61 604328 One Park Place Contacts Hatch Street Member Rep: Michael McDermott Dublin 2 Trustee(s): John Geoghegan, Rory Liddane, Ireland Mary Monaghan, John Ryan Tel: +44 207 8096809 HR: Nelius Kennedy www.avivainvestors.ie Finance: Rory Liddane Contacts Providers Member Rep: Rachel Green Solicitors: William Fry Investment: Matthew Graham, Auditor: Deloitte Rachel Green Actuary: Mercer Investment Manager: Mercer, State Street Global Advisors
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Aviva Ireland Staff clear understanding of the issues facing Pension Scheme European pension funds, and proven expertise in building bespoke solutions to We are Ireland’s leading composite meet their evolving needs over the long insurer for life, pensions, general and term. Features of our solution health insurance products. design include:
Address • Effective diversification and risk One Park Place management Hatch Street • Superior returns and yield Dublin 2 enhancement Ireland • Active stewardship and responsible Tel: +353 1 8985574 investment www.aviva.ie • Transparency and cost efficiency Contacts • Strong governance support Trustee(s): Stephen Masterson, Pat From equities, fixed income and real assets McCormack to alternatives and multi-asset, we marry Providers innovation and risk management in a bid Actuary: Willis Towers Watson to deliver long-term, value for clients. Auditor: PwC Solicitors: William Fry Investing together today for a better Investment Manager: Various tomorrow. Categories Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Address DB/DC: Defined Contribution 7 Newgate Street Contributory/Non-Contributory: London EC1A 7NX Contributory United Kingdom Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Insured Tel: +44 207 0031000 Have Member Trustees: Yes www.axa-im.com Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Contacts Member Rep: Mary Zerner Investment: Andrew Douglas, AXA Investment Managers Herschel Pant
Ball Beverage Packaging Ireland Ltd Ball Beverage Packaging Ireland Ltd is a subsidiary of Ball Corp, a multi national AXA Investment Managers is an active, leader in consumer packaging, quoted on long-term, global, multi-asset investor. the London stock exchange. We work with clients today to provide the investment solutions they need to Ball Beverage Packaging Ireland Ltd help build a better tomorrow for their was established in 1978 and has grown investments, while creating a positive successfully since then and moved to a change for the world in which we all live. purpose built plant in 1990. At present Ball Beverage Packaging Ireland Ltd produces Partnering with institutional clients for approximately 28 million aluminium can more than 20 years, we have developed a tops every day, all of which are exported to
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Address Address Industrial Park Kill Cork Road Co Kildare Waterford Ireland Ireland Tel: +353 45 886400 Tel: +353 51 359100 www.bamcontractors.ie www.ball.com Contacts Contacts Member Rep: Adrienne Bryan Member Rep: Tom Brennan Providers Trustee(s): Bernard Brannigan Solicitors: Hussey Finance: Tom Brennan Auditor: PwC Providers Actuary: Aon Investment Manager: Irish Life Investment Investment Manager: State Street Managers Global Advisors Solicitors: Arthur Cox Numbers Accountant: PwC Total Number of Employees: 974 Actuary: Invesco Limited Deferred Pensioners: 307 Independent Trustee: ILP Pension Pensioners: 32 Trustees Ltd Active Members: 422 Auditor: PwC Total Scheme Members: 761 Administrator: Invesco Limited Categories Numbers DB/DC: Defined Benefit Total Number of Employees: 160 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Deferred Pensioners: 68 Contributory Pensioners: 36 Size of Fund: €47,276,254 Active Members: 153 Fund Range: 26-100M Total Scheme Members: 257 Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Bank of America Merrill Lynch Self Administered Scheme: No International Dublin DB/DC: Multi Bank of America Merrill Lynch is one of Contributory/Non-Contributory: the world’s largest financial institutions, Contributory serving individual consumers, small- Size of Fund: €35,000,000 and middle-market businesses and large Fund Range: 26-100M corporations with a full range of banking, Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised investing, asset management and other Have Member Trustees: Yes financial and risk management products Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both and services.
The company’s corporate and investment banking, and sales and trading businesses operate under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch brand. Bank of America Merrill Lynch focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors,
76 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 B financial institutions and government Bank of Ireland Group entities. Address It provides innovative services in M&A, 40 Mespil Road equity and debt capital raising, lending, Dublin 4 trading, risk management, research, and Ireland liquidity and payments management. Tel: +353 76 6244735 www.bankofireland.ie Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients in more than 150 countries and Contacts has relationships with 99 percent of the Head of Group Pensions: Robert Callaghan U.S. Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 Providers percent of the Fortune Global 500. Investment Manager: State Street Global Advisors Address Property Adviser: Jones Lang LaSalle Two Park Place Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Hatch Street Accountant: PwC Dublin 2 Custodian: Northern Trust Ireland Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Tel: +353 1 2438500 Auditor: PwC Contacts Administrator: Bank of Ireland Member Rep: Naomi Dey Categories Trustee(s): Ray Balmaine, Niall Casement, Size of Fund: €5,500,000,000 Andrew Hackling, Fiona Mahon, Ailish Fund Range: > 500M Winters Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Providers Have Member Trustees: Yes Independent Trustee: Trustee Decisions Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Investment Consultant: Aon Individual Trustee Auditor: Grant Thornton Administrator: Invesco Limited Investment Manager: Irish Life, Barings Standard Life, Schroders, BlackRock, KBI Global Investors Numbers Total Number of Employees: 616 Deferred Pensioners: 523 Active Members: 616 Barings is a $306+ billion global asset Total Scheme Members: 1139 management firm dedicated to meeting the Categories evolving investment and capital needs of Integrated with State Scheme: No our clients. We build lasting partnerships Irish Pension Scheme: Yes that leverage our distinctive expertise Self Administered Scheme: No across traditional and alternative asset DB/DC: Defined Contribution classes to deliver innovative solutions and Contributory/Non-Contributory: Non exceptional service. Contributory Part of MassMutual, Barings maintains Fund Range: 26-100M a strong global presence with over 1,800 Have Member Trustees: Yes associates and offices in 16 countries. Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body Learn more, at www.barings.com
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Address BASF Ireland Limited 61 Aldwych BASF Ireland Limited markets a wide London WC2B 4AE range of BASF products and supplies United Kingdom leading manufacturing industries and the Tel: +44 203 2064500 agricultural sector. Its biggest customers www.barings.com are pharmaceutical and chemical Contacts manufacturers and companies in the Member Rep: Neil Godfrey cosmetics, plastics, nutrition and speciality chemicals sectors.
Barrys Tea Address Ireland’s leading quality tea blenders and Inchera Industrial Estate wholesalers since 1901. Inchera Little Island Address Cork T45 XY62 Kinsale Road Ireland Cork Tel: +44 161 4885470 Ireland www.basf.com Tel: +353 21 4915000 Contacts www.barrystea.ie Member Rep: Alison Wilkins Contacts Pension Manager: Alison Wilkins Member Rep: Aidan Dunlea Trustee(s): Alison Wilkins Managing Director: Tony Barry Numbers Providers Total Number of Employees: 100 Investment Manager: State Street Deferred Pensioners: 38 Global Advisors Active Members: 75 Solicitors: RDJ Total Scheme Members: 113 Accountant: KPMG Categories Actuary: Mercer Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Independent Trustee: IPT DB/DC: Defined Contribution Auditor: KPMG Contributory/Non-Contributory: Administrator: Mercer Contributory Investment Consultant: Mercer Have Member Trustees: Yes Numbers Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Total Number of Employees: 59 Individual Trustee Pensioners: 3 Active Members: 59 Total Scheme Members: 62 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Benefit Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Bausch + Lomb Ireland BearingPoint Ireland Bausch + Lomb is a multinational corporation and world leader in eye care technology.
Address Waterford Industrial Estate Management and Technology Consultants Cork Road Waterford Address Ireland Montague House Tel: +353 51 355001 Adelaide Road www.bausch.com Dublin D02 K039 Ireland Contacts Tel: +353 1 4181111 Member Rep: Paula Giles www.BearingPoint.com Pension Manager: Paula Giles Finance: Mary Kennedy Contacts Member Rep: Kevin O’Reilly Providers CEO/Managing Director: Eric Conway Auditor: PwC Trustee(s): Deirdre Hanley, Neil Kelly, Categories Gary Mullane, Kevin O’Reilly Irish Pension Scheme: Yes HR: Deirdre Hanley DB/DC: Defined Contribution Finance: Kevin O’Reilly Fund Range: 0-25M Numbers Have Member Trustees: Yes Deferred Pensioners: 109 Active Members: 126 Total Scheme Members: 235 BCP Asset Management Categories Founded in 1969 BCP is a specialist DB/DC: Defined Contribution structured product provider of capital Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both secure bonds for investments and Fund Range: 0-25M pensions. BCP currently manage over Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised €2.5bn in assets for personal, corporate Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both and pension investors.
Address 71 Upper Leeson Street Dublin 4 Ireland Tel: +353 1 6684688 www.bcp.ie Contacts Member Rep: Adrian Missen
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Bespoke Trustees Ltd bfinance bfinance provides highly customised investment implementation support to pension funds and other institutional asset owners. We seek to put power in investors’ hands through flexibility, specialist expertise and a team that acts as an extension of our clients’ resources. With senior staff drawn from portfolio management, research and academia as well as consultancy, the firm Bespoke Trustees Ltd was set up in 2006 combines practitioner experience with to facilitate the set up and on-going interdisciplinary capability. Established administration of self-administered in 1999, bfinance has worked for more pension schemes (SAPS), self-directed than 300 institutional clients across 34 personal retirement bonds (PRB), and countries, operating out of 8 international self-administered approved (minimum) offices. The firm has been recognised with retirement funds (A(M)RF) for its clients. numerous industry awards for innovation We are a Revenue approved Pensioneer and investment consultancy and has Trustee, a Registered Administrator recently again won the Global Investor approved by the Pensions Authority for Award for Investment Consultant of company pension schemes, and a trustee the year. of exempt unit trusts. We pride ourselves on our competitive pricing and strong Address customer service and focus. We work 36 Queen Street closely with financial advisors to ensure London EC4R 1BN clients are maximising the benefits United Kingdom available from their self-administered Tel: +44 20 77478602 pension vehicles. www.bfinance.com
Address Contacts 16 Roden Place Member Rep: Paul Doyle Dundalk Director: Paul Doyle Co Louth Ireland Providers Tel: +353 818 432432 Investment Consultant: bfinance www.bespoketrustees.ie Numbers Contacts Total Number of Employees: 70 Member Rep: John McDonnell Categories Have Member Trustees: No
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BlackRock Investment Address Management (UK) Ltd Exchange House Primrose Street Address London EC2A 2NY 2 Ballsbridge Park United Kingdom Ballsbridge Tel: +00 44 207 0115230 Dublin 4 www.bmogam.com/uk/institutional/ Ireland Contacts Tel: +353 1 2467004 Member Rep: Paul Myles www.blackrock.com Director: Paul Myles Contacts Member Rep: Adele Spillane Categories BNY Mellon Investment DB/DC: Defined Benefit Management EMEA Limited Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Fund Range: 0-25M Have Member Trustees: No Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
BMO Global Asset Management BNY Mellon is a global investments BMO Global Asset Management is a company dedicated to helping its clients worldwide investment manager with a manage and service their financial assets focus on understanding and meeting our throughout the investment lifecycle. clients’ needs and objectives. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual Today, we offer an established range of investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed global investment capabilities and solutions investment management and investment including Liability Driven Investment, services in 35 countries. Active Fixed Income, Specialist Equity, Property, ESG, and Alternative strategies As of June 30, 2018, BNY Mellon had $33.6 including Risk Premia. To this we add trillion in assets under custody and/or the defined expertise of three investment administration, and $1.8 trillion in assets boutiques: BMO Real Estate Partners, LGM under management. BNY Mellon can act as and Pyrford International. a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, BMO Global Asset Management has over distribute or restructure investments. €213.4 billion in assets and is a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The for Responsible Investment initiative Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (UNPRI). We have four investment centres (NYSE: BK). Additional information is in London, Chicago, Toronto and Hong available on www.bnymellon.com, or Kong, and more than 20 offices in 14 follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon. countries worldwide (30 April 2018).
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Address Contributory The Bank of New York Mellon Centre Fund Range: 26-100M 160 Queen Victoria Street Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised London EC4V 4LA Have Member Trustees: Yes United Kingdom Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Tel: +44 207 1632567 Individual Trustee www.bnymellonim.com Contacts Member Rep: Ned Meaney Boliden Tara Mines Designated Activity Company Mining Company in operation since BOC Gases Ireland Ltd 1977 producing zinc and lead concentrates Address for export. P.O. Box 201 Bluebell Address Dublin 12 Knockumber House Ireland Knockumber Road Tel: +353 1 4091858 Navan Co Meath C15 NH63 Contacts Ireland Member Rep: Carol Ryan Tel: +353 46 9082000 Trustee(s): Gerry Donovan, Bruce Doolan, Parent Company: Boliden AB John Feely, Bernard Hudson, John Leonard HR: Carol Ryan Contacts Finance: Bruce Doolan Member Rep: Tadg Farrell CEO/Managing Director: Trustee(s): Alan Broxson, Tadg Farrell, Andreas Bieringer Richard McGlew, Eoghan O’Neill Director: Gerry Donovan HR: Eoghan O’Neill Providers Numbers Investment Manager: State Street Global Total Number of Employees: 690 Advisors, Insight Investment, Irish Life Categories Investment Managers, Stone Harbour DB/DC: Multi Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Accountant: Grant Thornton Fund Range: 101-250M Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Have Member Trustees: Yes Auditor: Grant Thornton Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Numbers Individual Trustee Total Number of Employees: 295 Deferred Pensioners: 133 Pensioners: 157 Boots Retail Ireland Active Members: 175 Address Total Scheme Members: 465 Unit 2F Block 71A Categories Parkwest Business Park Integrated with State Scheme: No Dublin 12 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Ireland Self Administered Scheme: Yes Tel: +353 1 7780000 DB/DC: Multi www.boots.ie Contributory/Non-Contributory:
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Boston Scientific Ireland Ltd distributes a number of beer brands in the Scottish, Irish and Northern Irish markets, Address primarily for Anheuser-Busch InBev and Ballybrit Business Park owns Wallaces Express, a Scottish drinks Galway wholesaler. The Group’s Irish wholesaling Ireland subsidiary, Gleeson group, owns and Tel: +353 91 756300 manufactures Tipperary Water and www.bsci.com Finches soft drinks. Contacts Member Rep: Angela Burke Address HR: Angela Burke Annerville Providers Clonmel Auditor: EY Tipperary Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Ireland Investment Manager: ILIM, State Street Tel: +353 87 7679131 Global Advisors www.candcgroupplc.com Numbers Providers Total Number of Employees: 2895 Investment Manager: State Street Deferred Pensioners: 590 Global Advisors, BMO Global Asset Active Members: 2300 Management, Principal Global Investors, Total Scheme Members: 2890 Capital International, BNY Mellon Asset Management Ltd, PIMCO, Standard Life, Categories Insight Investment, Irish Life Investment Integrated with State Scheme: No Managers, IPUT, Ruffer Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Self Administered Scheme: Yes Actuary: Mercer DB/DC: Defined Contribution Independent Trustee: Trustee Principles Contributory/Non-Contributory: Auditor: EY Contributory Size of Fund: €35,000,000 Numbers Fund Range: 26-100M Total Number of Employees: 1579 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Deferred Pensioners: 764 Have Member Trustees: Yes Pensioners: 465 Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Active Members: 75 Individual Trustee Total Scheme Members: 1304 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes C&C Group plc Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No C&C Group plc is a leading manufacturer, DB/DC: Multi marketer and distributor of branded Contributory/Non-Contributory: cider, beer, wine and soft drinks. C&C Contributory manufactures Bulmers, the leading Irish Size of Fund: €160,000,000 cider brand, Magners, the premium Fund Range: 101-250M international cider brand, the C&C Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Brands range of English ciders and the Segregated, Unitised Tennent’s beer brand. C&C also owns Have Member Trustees: Yes and manufactures Woodchuck and Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Hornsby’s, two leading craft cider brands in the United States. The Group also
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Cadbury Ireland Pension Trust Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Company Ltd by Guarantee Auditor: PwC Numbers Mondelez Ireland is a subsidiary of Total Number of Employees: 630 Mondelez International, Inc., an American Deferred Pensioners: 747 multinational confectionery, food, and Pensioners: 1515 beverage company, which is HQ in Active Members: 513 Chicago. It consists of the global snack Total Scheme Members: 2775 and food brands of the former Kraft Foods Inc. after the October 2012 spin-off of Categories its North American grocery operations Integrated with State Scheme: Yes which followed the takeover of Cadbury Irish Pension Scheme: Yes in 2010. The company manufactures Self Administered Scheme: Yes chocolate, cookies, gum, confectionery, DB/DC: Defined Benefit and powdered beverages and our portfolio Contributory/Non-Contributory: includes several billion-dollar brands such Contributory as Belvita, Chips Ahoy!, Nabisco, Oreo, Size of Fund: €670 Ritz, TUC, Triscuit, LU, Barni, Milka, Fund Range: > 500M Toblerone, Cadbury...... Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Segregated, Unitised We’re a big company. But we believe, Have Member Trustees: Yes above all, in one thing – something that’s Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both unique to us – and that’s the power of big and small. Yes, we have the scale and resources of a global powerhouse. But also Calor Teoranta the speed, creativity and agility of a fresh new start-up. Address Long Mile Road Address Walkinstown c/o Mondelez Europe Services GmbH - Dublin 12 Irish Branch Ireland Malahide Road Tel: +353 1 4505000 Coolock Contacts Dublin 5 Member Rep: Cathal Murphy Ireland Trustee(s): Sean McCourt, Pat Motyer, Tel: +353 1 8668301 Cathal Murphy, Liam Silke, Mary Tinney eu.mondelezinternational.com/ Finance: Liam Silke Contacts Providers Member Rep: Fintan O’Reilly Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Trustee(s): Michael Doran, Dan Custodian: Northern Trust Custodial Ferrari, John Hynes, Thomas Maher, Services Ireland Ltd Gerard OReilly, Allan Whalley, Harry Auditor: KPMG Worthington Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Pension Manager: Fintan O’Reilly Investment Manager: State Street Global Providers Advisors, KBI Global Investors, Irish Life Investment Manager: Legal & General, Investment Managers G.S.A.M., M&G, BlackRock, BMO Global Numbers Asset Management Total Number of Employees: 29 Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Deferred Pensioners: 35 Investment Consultant: Mercer Pensioners: 339
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Active Members: 29 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Total Scheme Members: 403 Segregated Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Categories Corporate Body Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Benefit Cantor Fitzgerald Contributory/Non-Contributory: Cantor Fitzgerald are a leading financial Contributory services company, combining Global Size of Fund: €90,000,000 presence and expertise with a local Fund Range: 26-100M understanding of the Irish market. We Segregated/Unitised and Insured: provide investors with access to all leading Segregated asset classes, along with offering a range of Have Member Trustees: Yes investment products and truly diversified Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: portfolios to suit investors risk profiles. Corporate Body Our services are available on an advisory, discretionary and execution only basis to cater for a full range of pension investors. Calor Teoranta DC Scheme Address Address 75 St. Stephens Green Long Mile Road Dublin 2 Walkinstown Ireland Dublin D12 XP79 Tel: +353 1 6333864 Ireland www.cantorfitzgerald.ie Tel: +353 1 4505000 Contacts www.calorgas.ie Member Rep: Laura Reidy Contacts Numbers Member Rep: Jacqueline Claffey Total Number of Employees: 100 Trustee(s): Claire Morrison, Mary Tinney Active Members: 33 Director: Liam Silke Total Scheme Members: 33 Providers Accountant: KPMG Administrator: Willis Towers Watson Capital International Ltd Investment Manager: New Ireland Capital International Limited (CIL) Numbers is a stable and privately owned asset Total Number of Employees: 116 management firm, a wholly-owned Deferred Pensioners: 18 subsidiary of the Capital Group Active Members: 98 Companies, one of the most experienced Total Scheme Members: 116 and successful investment management Categories firms in the world. Founded in Los Angeles Integrated with State Scheme: No in 1931, Capital has grown to become a Irish Pension Scheme: Yes global presence in the investment industry Self Administered Scheme: No with 12 investment offices worldwide DB/DC: Defined Contribution including London and Geneva. Capital Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both International Limited has managed assets Size of Fund: €2,722,576 on behalf of Irish institutions since 1993 Fund Range: 0-25M and has since built up a broad base of
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pension fund clients. As at 30 June 2012, Contacts Capital managed in excess of EUR 81 Member Rep: Colm Leen bn of institutional assets worldwide. Finance: Colm Leen Managing Director: Dan MacSweeney Capital focuses on traditional long-term Providers investing, concentrating on company Auditor: EY fundamentals, believing that this approach Solicitors: Matheson is the most enduring way to add value and Investment Manager: KBI Global Investors, will benefit investment portfolios both in Northern Trust the current environment and in the future. Our research is focused on industries Numbers globally, rather than specific countries Total Number of Employees: 160 or regions. We also firmly believe that Pensioners: 8 portfolios should be managed by a team Active Members: 131 of portfolio managers - all contributing Total Scheme Members: 139 their highest conviction ideas and Categories importantly providing diversification by Integrated with State Scheme: No complementing the other managers on the Irish Pension Scheme: Yes team in terms of their coverage and style. Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Benefit Capital’s heritage is in the emerging Contributory/Non-Contributory: markets where we offer equity, debt Contributory and private equity strategies. In an Have Member Trustees: Yes environment of higher volatility our Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: objective based, multi-asset strategies, Corporate Body which seek to deliver “lower risk without compromising investment returns” are resonating with investors today. We also Carillon Tower Advisers have particular expertise in high yielding fixed income. Address Raymond James Financial International Address Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street 40 Grosvenor Place London EC2A 2AG London SW1X 7GG United Kingdom United Kingdom Tel: +44 203 7985635 Tel: +44 207 8645000 www.carillontower.com www.capgroup.com Contacts Contacts Member Rep: David O’Keeffe Member Rep: Emma Friend Marketing: Chris Daley CBRE Unlimited Company
Carbery Group CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered Address in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest Ballineen commercial real estate services and Co Cork P47 YW77 investment firm (based on 2015 revenue). Ireland The Company has more than 70,000 Tel: +353 23 8822200 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves www.carbery.com real estate investors and occupiers through more than 400 offices (excluding affiliates)
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worldwide. CBRE offers a broad range of Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual integrated services, including facilities, Trustee transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; Central Bank of Ireland property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and Address development services. New Wapping Street North Wall Quay In Ireland, with offices in Dublin and Dublin 1 Belfast, CBRE is the country’s largest Ireland commercial real estate services company, Tel: +353 1 2246857 now employing over 165 employees and Contacts offering a full range of property services Member Rep: Renee Behan including property sales and acquisitions; HR: Renee Behan, Jacinta Whearty leasing and management; investment; corporate services; debt advisory; project management; consultancy; business rates CHC Ireland Pension Scheme and compulsory purchase; valuations and research. Please visit www.cbre.ie CHC Ireland is contracted by the Irish Coast Guard to provide the helicopter Address Search and Rescue service in Ireland. Connaught House Operating from bases in Dublin, Shannon, One Burlington Road Sligo and Waterford with a fleet of 5 Dublin 4 Sikorsky S92A helicopters, we provide Ireland coverage of the Irish Sea, the busy south Tel: +353 1 6185500 coast and to a range of 200Nm into the www.cbre.ie Atlantic. CHC also provides helicopter Contacts support to Ireland’s offshore oil and gas Member Rep: Eddie McNestry industry. Trustee(s): Deirdre Bodley, Eddie Address McNestry CHC Ireland Finance: Eddie McNestry Search and Rescue Unit Providers Shannon Airport Administrator: Zurich Clare Investment Manager: Zurich Ireland Numbers Tel: +353 61 771000 Total Number of Employees: 110 www.chcsar.com Active Members: 36 Contacts Total Scheme Members: 36 Member Rep: Liam Hannon Categories Trustee(s): Liam Hannon Integrated with State Scheme: No Numbers Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Total Number of Employees: 111 Self Administered Scheme: No Active Members: 105 DB/DC: Defined Contribution Total Scheme Members: 105 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Categories Contributory Integrated with State Scheme: No Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Have Member Trustees: No
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Self Administered Scheme: No Moreland, Donal Murphy, Cecilia Ronan, DB/DC: Defined Contribution Martina Williamson, Tony Woods Contributory/Non-Contributory: HR: Martina Williamson Contributory CCO/CEO: Aidan Brady Fund Range: 0-25M Have Member Trustees: Yes Numbers Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Total Number of Employees: 2030 Categories Citibank Europe plc Integrated with State Scheme: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Citi and its predecessors have had a Self Administered Scheme: No presence in Ireland since 1965 and was one DB/DC: Defined Contribution of the first foreign banks to open an office Contributory/Non-Contributory: Non in the country. Contributory Have Member Trustees: No We offer a broad range of financial Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: services and products in Ireland. These Corporate Body include cash management, derivatives, investor products, corporate finance, trade services, custody, trustee services, City Life Limited fund administration, transfer agency and shareholder services.
The businesses operating in Ireland include treasury and trade solutions, securities and fund services, corporate and investment banking and capital markets. Dublin also has a Citi Service Centre, one of four in Established in 1971, City Life is a firm of the EMEA region that services businesses expert pension advisors, financial planners in more than 52 countries. The first Citi and corporate scheme consultants. City Innovation Lab dedicated to research Life provides advice and management and development in the financial services services for private clients, corporate industry is located in Dublin. clients and scheme members alike and is an independent, family owned Irish company. Citibank Europe plc is an Irish-regulated bank headquartered in Dublin and has a Address diversified product base covering 20 global Nore House and regional products. The bank operates Bessboro Road branches in Poland, the Czech Republic, Blackrock Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria. Cork T12 XY7H Ireland Address Tel: +353 21 4358533 1 North Wall Quay www.citylife.ie Dublin 1 Contacts Ireland Member Rep: Dermot O’Mahoney Tel: +353 1 6222000 Trustee(s): Dermot O’Mahoney www.citigroup.com CEO/Managing Director: Eamon Dwyer Contacts Director: Stephen Barry Member Rep: Martina Williamson Providers Trustee(s): Catherine Brady, Colin
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Auditor: EY Advisors Ireland, North American Solicitors: Ronan Daly Jermyn Forestry Investment Trust, ILIM, Davy Numbers Stockbrokers, Aberdeen Standard Total Number of Employees: 13 Investments, Mercer, Insight Investment, Newton Investment Management, Zurich, ACT Venture Capital Clarus Investment Solutions Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Actuary: Mercer Clarus Investment Solutions offers a range Auditor: PwC of investment-related services to pension Administrator: Willis Towers Watson fund trustees and other fiduciaries/ Numbers advisors. The firm’s partners Deferred Pensioners: 199 (Paul McCarville and Joe Mottley) Pensioners: 1428 are highly experienced investment Active Members: 372 professionals who are very familiar Total Scheme Members: 1999 with the pensions landscape. Categories Address Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Suite 403 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes 22/23 Upper Pembroke Street Self Administered Scheme: Yes Dublin 2 DB/DC: Defined Benefit Ireland Contributory/Non-Contributory: Tel: +353 1 6310211 Contributory www.clarus.ie Size of Fund: €271,086,000 Fund Range: 251-500M Contacts Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Member Rep: Paul McCarville Segregated Categories Have Member Trustees: Yes DB/DC: Defined Benefit Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Individual Trustee Fund Range: 0-25M Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Columbia Threadneedle Investments Coillte CGA Commercial semi-state.
Address Dublin Road Newtownmountkennedy Co Wicklow Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a Ireland leading global asset management group Tel: +353 1 2011111 that provides a broad range of actively- www.coillte.ie managed investment strategies and Contacts solutions for clients around the world. Member Rep: Serena Considine With more than 2,000 people including Trustee(s): Bill Stanley over 450 investment professionals based Providers in North America, Europe and Asia, we Investment Manager: State Street Global manage €414 billion of assets (as at 30
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June 2016) across developed and emerging Actuary: Willis Towers Watson market equities, fixed income, asset Numbers allocation solutions and alternatives. Total Number of Employees: 149 Deferred Pensioners: 33 We aim to deliver excellent investment Active Members: 121 outcomes for our clients through a Total Scheme Members: 154 team-based, performance-driven and risk-aware investment approach. Our Categories culture is dynamic and interactive. By Integrated with State Scheme: Yes sharing our insights across asset classes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes and geographies we generate richer Self Administered Scheme: No perspectives on global, regional and DB/DC: Defined Contribution local investment landscapes, resulting Contributory/Non-Contributory: in better-informed investment decisions Contributory for our clients. Size of Fund: €13,668,252 Fund Range: 101-250M As part of Ameriprise Financial, Inc., Have Member Trustees: No a leading US-based financial services Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: provider, we are supported by a large and Corporate Body well-capitalised parent company.
Address Construction Executive Cannon Place Retirement Savings 78 Cannon Street London EC4N 6AG CERS (Construction Executive Retirement United Kingdom Savings) is an industry wide scheme, which Tel: +44 207 4645000 provides pension arrangements for core www.columbiathreadneedle.com employees of approx 200 companies in the construction and related industries. Contacts Member Rep: Jon Dadswell Address Investment: Jon Dadswell Canal House Canal Road Dublin 6 Commscope EMEA Limited Ireland Address Tel: +353 1 4071430 Corke Abbey Avenue www.cers.ie Bray Contacts Co Wicklow Member Rep: Frances McNally Ireland Providers Tel: +353 1 2042085 Investment Manager: ILIM, State www.commscope.com Street Global Advisors, Standard Life, Contacts F & C Ireland, KBI, BNY Mellon Asset Member Rep: Niamh Hewitt Management Ltd, IPUT, Irish Forestry Director: Kevin O’Loughlin Unit Trust CEO/Managing Director: Kevin Solicitors: Arthur Cox O’Loughlin Investment Consultant: Mercer HR: Niamh Hewitt Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Providers Auditor: Grant Thornton Accountant: Willis Towers Watson Administrator: CIF Pension
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Administration Services Ltd Andrew O’Gorman, Tony O’Leary, Numbers Brendan O’Sullivan, Billy Wall Total Number of Employees: 7 Providers Deferred Pensioners: 2115 Investment Manager: State Street Global Pensioners: 1068 Advisors, Irish Life, KBI Global Investors, Active Members: 1757 Standard Life, Fusion Alternative Total Scheme Members: 4940 Investments, Principal Global Investors Categories Property Adviser: Jones Lang LaSalle, Irish Pension Scheme: Yes CBRE Self Administered Scheme: No Solicitors: Eversheds Sutherland DB/DC: Multi Investment Consultant: Acuvest Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Investment Advisers Size of Fund: €511,824,000 Custodian: BOI Security Services & Fund Range: > 500M Northern Trust Have Member Trustees: No Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Auditor: Mazars Corporate Body Administrator: CIF Pension Administration Services Ltd Numbers Construction Workers’ Total Number of Employees: 40 Pension Scheme Deferred Pensioners: 287500 Pensioners: 7820 The Construction Workers’ Pension Active Members: 23000 Scheme (CWPS) is the industry-wide Total Scheme Members: 318320 pension scheme for the construction Categories industry in Ireland. The Scheme, with Integrated with State Scheme: No assets in excess of €1.1billion, provides Irish Pension Scheme: Yes members with financial security Self Administered Scheme: No throughout their working lives and in DB/DC: Hybrid retirement, in an easy to understand Contributory/Non-Contributory: and cost effective manner. Contributory The Scheme is governed by a Size of Fund: €1,200,000,000 Trustee company, CWPS Trustees Ltd, Fund Range: > 500M consisting of five Employers and five Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Member (Trade Union) Directors and the Segregated, Unitised Chairman. The Scheme is administered Have Member Trustees: Yes by a dedicated pension administration Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: company CPAS Ltd. Corporate Body
Address Canal House Cope Foundation Canal Road Dublin 6 Address Ireland Bonnington Tel: +353 1 4977663 Montenotte www.cwps.ie Cork Ireland Contacts Tel: +353 21 4643100 Member Rep: Kevin Walsh www.cope-foundation.ie Trustee(s): Conor Lynch, Joseph O’Brien,
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Contacts DB/DC: Defined Benefit Member Rep: Aine O’Callaghan Contributory/Non-Contributory: Numbers Contributory Active Members: 14 Size of Fund: €2,091,700,000 Total Scheme Members: 14 Fund Range: > 500M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Categories Segregated Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Have Member Trustees: Yes DB/DC: Defined Benefit Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Individual Trustee Fund Range: 0-25M Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Cornmarket Group Coras Iompair Éireann Financial Services Provider of Transport Services throughout the Republic of Ireland.
Address Heuston Station Dublin D08 E2CV Cornmarket is a leading provider of Ireland financial services to members of affinity Tel: +353 1 7032050 groups. The Company specialises in www.cie.ie the provision of life and risk insurance Contacts products, AVCs, motor, home and health Member Rep: Tony Murray insurance. Cornmarket is part of the Great- Trustee(s): Liam Darby, Geraldine West Lifeco group of companies. Finucane, Andrea Keane Pension Manager: Tony Murray Address Liberties House Providers Christchurch Square Custodian: JP Morgan Dublin 8 Auditor: Deloitte Ireland Solicitors: CIE Solicitors Tel: +353 1 4084000 Investment Manager: ILIM, Henderson, www.cornmarket.ie Schroders, Wellington Management, KBI Global Investors, Walter Scott, G.S.A.M., Contacts Delta Partners, ACT Venture Capital, Member Rep: Mary-Jane Halpin Insight Investment, J.P. Morgan, Antin CEO/Group Managing Direct: Infrastructure Partners, IFM Investors Roddy Murphy HR: Mary-Jane Halpin Numbers Finance: Micheál Carroll Total Number of Employees: 10300 Deferred Pensioners: 2006 Providers Pensioners: 6202 Auditor: KPMG Active Members: 8571 Actuary: Irish Life Total Scheme Members: 16779 Investment Manager: Irish Life Categories Numbers Integrated with State Scheme: No Total Number of Employees: 300 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Deferred Pensioners: 42 Self Administered Scheme: Yes Pensioners: 7
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Active Members: 217 value for airlines, passengers and business Total Scheme Members: 266 partners. Categories daa turnover in 2017 was €855 million, Integrated with State Scheme: Yes up 8% on 2016, and driven by growing Irish Pension Scheme: Yes passenger numbers, improved commercial Self Administered Scheme: No income, and the impact of new overseas DB/DC: Multi businesses. Group profit after tax, Contributory/Non-Contributory: excluding exceptional items, was €125 Contributory million. Fund Range: 26-100M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: The Group employs 3,500 people at its Segregated, Unitised Irish airports and has a further 800 people Have Member Trustees: Yes working for its international businesses. Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body Address Old Central Terminal Building Dublin Airport Coyne & Culloty Insurance & Dublin Financial Services Ireland Tel: +353 1 8141111 Address www.daa.ie 2 Main Street Contacts Killarney Member Rep: Richard Kelly Co Kerry Pension Manager: Richard Kelly Ireland Tel: +353 64 6631274 Providers www.coyneculloty.com Investment Consultant: Acuvest Investment Advisers Contacts Auditor: Deloitte Member Rep: Lynda Coyne Solicitors: Arthur Cox Director: Lynda Coyne Administrator: Invesco Limited Investment Manager: Legal & General Asset Management daa plc Numbers daa operates Dublin and Cork airports Total Number of Employees: 3458 in Ireland and has significant overseas Deferred Pensioners: 482 businesses through its ARI and daa Active Members: 2554 International subsidiaries in addition to Total Scheme Members: 3036 the Dublin Airport Central development at Categories Dublin Airport. Integrated with State Scheme: No Dublin and Cork airports are the two Irish Pension Scheme: Yes largest airports in the Republic of Ireland, DB/DC: Defined Contribution welcoming a combined 31.9 million Fund Range: 101-250M passengers in 2017. Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Have Member Trustees: Yes The Group’s core purpose is to connect Ireland with the world and its vision is to be an airport industry leader that will grow its business by delivering great service and
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Dairygold Co-Operative Providers Society Ltd Investment Manager: ILIM Solicitors: Matheson Ireland’s Leading Farmer Owned Dairy Investment Consultant: Mercer and Agri Co-Operative that Delivers Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Sustainable Global Solutions. The Society Auditor: KPMG headquarters are located in Mitchelstown, Administrator: Equiniti Paymaster Co. Cork. We are a multipurpose Co- Numbers operative with three distinct businesses, Total Number of Employees: 52 Dairy, Agri and Retail. Deferred Pensioners: 863 Pensioners: 565 Address Active Members: 26 Clonmel Road Total Scheme Members: 1454 Mitchelstown P67 DD36 Co Cork Ireland Davy Asset Management Tel: +353 25 44533 At Davy Asset Management we are active www.dairygold.ie bottom up Quantamental (Quantitative Providers and Fundamental) investors who believe Auditor: Deloitte that high quality companies outperform Investment Consultant: Mercer over the long run. We manage a range of Actuary: Mercer asset classes on behalf of our clients. Our Independent Trustee: IPT investment solutions include Global Equity Administrator: Mercer Income, Global Equity, Global Smaller Investment Manager: ILIM Companies, Global ESG Equity, Global ESG Ex Fossil Fuels, Global Brands and Categories Global Bond. Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No Davy Asset Management is part of the DB/DC: Multi Davy Group, one of Ireland’s leading Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both financial services firms, providing wealth Have Member Trustees: Yes management, asset management, capital Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both markets and financial advisory services, to domestic and international clients for 90 years. The Davy Group manages assets on Danske Bank (Ireland) behalf of Irish and international clients. Pensions DAC Davy is a privately owned business, 100% owned by Davy management and staff. Address International House Address 3 Harbourmaster Place Davy House IFSC 49 Dawson Street Dublin D01 K8F1 Dublin 2 Ireland Ireland Tel: +44 28 90048514 Tel: +353 1 6148874 Contacts www.davyassetmanagement.com Member Rep: Brett Armstrong Contacts Pension Manager: Brett Armstrong Member Rep: Tim Kelly Trustee(s): David Douglas
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Davy Real Estate Contacts Member Rep: Gerard Whyte The Davy Irish Property Fund (“DIPF” Trustee(s): Gerard Whyte or “the Fund”) is a commercial property fund invested 100% in Irish property and Providers available for investment by Qualifying Auditor: PwC Investors from Ireland and overseas. The Solicitors: William Fry Fund aims to provide investors with a Administrator: Mercer long term investment in Irish commercial Categories property while providing quarterly income Integrated with State Scheme: Yes distributions. Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No Address DB/DC: Multi 49 Dawson Street Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Dublin 2 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Ireland Have Member Trustees: Yes Tel: +353 87 7603030 Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: www.davy.ie/real-estate/dipf Individual Trustee Contacts Member Rep: Simon MacKinnon Investment: Simon MacKinnon Dean Wetton Advisory Categories DWA was founded in 2009 to provide Size of Fund: €1,400,000,000 Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Fund Range: > 500M pension schemes with a fresh approach Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised to delivering investment advice. Our Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: approach is based on plain talking, Corporate Body pragmatic advice delivered by experts in manager evaluation and selection.
DCC plc Dean Wetton spoke at the IAPF Investment Conference 2018 about investment in multi-employer DC schemes.
Address Office 29, Clifton House Fitzwilliam St Lower International sales, marketing and support Dublin 2 services group, headquartered in Dublin Ireland with operations in 15 countries. Tel: +44 203 4225000 www.deanwettonadvisory.com Address Contacts DCC House Member Rep: Dean Wetton Leopardstown Road CEO/Managing Director: Dean Wetton Foxrock Dublin 18 Ireland Tel: +353 1 2799400 www.dcc.ie
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Deloitte Deutsche Asset Management With around €711 billion of assets under management (June 2017), Deutsche Asset Management is one of the world’s leading investment managers. Deutsche Asset Management offers individuals and Deloitte is one of the largest global institutions traditional and alternative professional services and consulting investments across all major asset classes. networks. With over 220,000 professionals in more than 150 countries, we bring Not just a global firm, we are a truly global world-class capabilities and high-quality organisation. Deutsche Asset Management services to our clients. In Ireland, Deloitte is united in the pursuit to deliver has over 2,000 people providing audit, tax, innovative solutions and sustainable consulting, and corporate finance services performance, no matter the product. With to public and private clients spanning 60 years in Active, 40 years in Alternatives multiple industries. Our people have the and over 10 years in Passives, we are leadership capabilities, experience, and leaders in our fields of investment. insight to collaborate with clients so they can move forward with confidence. A big driver for the creation of innovative solutions, are our people and their fresh Address thinking. Agility of minds is paired with Deloitte & Touche House diversity of our teams as we are convinced 29 Earlsfort Terrace that different perspectives lead to better Dublin 2 outcomes. Today, we combine creativity Ireland and intelligence with technology to develop Tel: +353 1 4172200 new ways of serving the financial needs of Contacts our diverse clientele worldwide. Member Rep: Niamh Mulvihill Pension Manager: Niamh Mulvihill Address Finance: Kevin Sheehan Winchester House 1 Great Winchester Street Providers London EC2N 2DB Actuary: Mercer United Kingdom Auditor: OKC Business Services Ltd Tel: +44 207 5452755 Solicitors: Arthur Cox www.deutscheam.com Administrator: Willis Towers Watson, Mercer Contacts Member Rep: Karl Tuck Categories Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Categories DB/DC: Multi Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Contributory/Non-Contributory: DB/DC: Defined Contribution Contributory Fund Range: 26-100M Have Member Trustees: No Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
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Diageo Ireland Dimensional Consumer goods company with portfolio For more than 35 years, institutional of world famous drinks brands. investors have relied on Dimensional to address complex investment challenges. Address Diageo Pension Office Guided by a strong belief in markets, Edinburgh Park we offer strategies to help institutional 5 Lochside Way clients pursue higher expected returns. Edinburgh, Lothian EH12 9DT We have a long history of incorporating United Kingdom rigorous academic research into practical Tel: +44 208 9786000 investment strategies. www.mydiageopension.com Our clients include corporations, Contacts consultants, nonprofits, DB and DC Member Rep: Michelle Elliott pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and Providers other institutions worldwide. The longevity Investment Manager: Morgan Stanley of Dimensional’s client relationships, Investment Managers, Irish Property many dating back decades, demonstrates Unit Trust, Blackrock, Irish Life, Oakhill, our commitment to client service and the Unigestion, M&G consistency of our investment approach. Solicitors: William Fry Custodian: Northern Trust Our goal is to implement the great ideas Actuary: Willis Towers Watson in finance through portfolios that target Auditor: EY higher expected returns in a cost-effective manner. We consistently apply our Numbers integrated, market-driven approach across Total Number of Employees: 828 a full suite of global and regional equity Deferred Pensioners: 1075 and fixed income strategies. Pensioners: 3563 Active Members: 546 Address Total Scheme Members: 5184 20 Triton Street Categories Regent’s Place Irish Pension Scheme: Yes London Self Administered Scheme: Yes Greater London NW1 3BF DB/DC: Defined Benefit United Kingdom Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Tel: +44 203 0333300 Size of Fund: €1,592,100,000 www.dfaeurope.com Fund Range: > 500M Contacts Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Member Rep: Chris Morgan Segregated Investment: Chris Morgan Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Doyle Pension & all relevant disciplines – actuarial, legal, Insurance Management investment and administration bringing true independence and ensuring effective Address regulation and compliance leading to 114 Pembroke Road better member outcomes. Ballsbridge Dublin 4 Address Ireland PO Box 129 Tel: +353 1 6608141 Killarney www.doylepension.ie Co Kerry Contacts Ireland Member Rep: Stephen Doyle Tel: +353 1 8355578 www.dtstrustees.ie Numbers Total Number of Employees: 7 Contacts Member Rep: Michael Hickey Categories CEO/Managing Director: Michael Hickey Integrated with State Scheme: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: Yes Dublin Simon Community DB/DC: Multi Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Homeless Charity and Company with over Fund Range: 0-25M 40 years’ experience offering homeless Have Member Trustees: No solutions and housing to Homeless people Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both in the Leinster region.
Address DTS Dedicated Trustee 5 Red Cow Lane Services DAC Smithfield Dublin 7 Ireland Tel: +353 1 4722113 www.dubsimon.ie Contacts Member Rep: Martin Hannigan Numbers Total Number of Employees: 130 Deferred Pensioners: 15 DTS is an independent, professional Active Members: 35 trustee company providing trusteeship Total Scheme Members: 50 to Irish occupational pension schemes as sole trustee, joint trustee or as part Categories of trustee boards. Our experience Integrated with State Scheme: No and expertise in the pension and legal Irish Pension Scheme: Yes industries is extensive and enables Self Administered Scheme: Yes us to deliver trusteeship that is truly DB/DC: Defined Contribution practical, relevant, cost effective and Contributory/Non-Contributory: Non independent. Appointing DTS as trustee Contributory gives employers the peace of mind that Size of Fund: €3,175,315 their pension / risk benefits schemes Fund Range: 0-25M are being overseen by an independent, Have Member Trustees: Yes professional trustee with experience across Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both
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Duignan Carthy O’Neill Managers, PIMCO Europe Ltd, Delta Partners, Fidelity Investments, Irish Duignan Carthy O’Neill are an established Forestry Unit Trust, Irish Property Unit firm of chartered accountants providing Trust, Fountain Healthcare, Seroba Bio specialised audit, tax and financial advice Ventures to pension funds. Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Custodian: Northern Trust Address Actuary: Mercer Chartered Accountants & Registered Auditor: Duignan Carthy O’Neill Auditors 84 Northumberland Road Numbers Dublin 4 Total Number of Employees: 2750 Ireland Deferred Pensioners: 3300 Tel: +353 1 6682404 Pensioners: 10000 www.dcon.ie Active Members: 1400 Total Scheme Members: 14700 Contacts Member Rep: Liz Murphy Categories Finance: Tim Carthy, Liz Murphy Integrated with State Scheme: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Numbers Self Administered Scheme: Yes Total Number of Employees: 25 DB/DC: Defined Benefit Active Members: 25 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Total Scheme Members: 25 Contributory Categories Size of Fund: €200,000,000 DB/DC: Defined Benefit Fund Range: 101-250M Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Have Member Trustees: Yes Segregated, Unitised Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee eircom No. 2 Superannuation Fund eircom Superannuation Fund
Members Address Members Address Leitrim House Leitrim House 67-68 Upper Stephen Street 67-68 Upper Stephen Street Dublin D08 RKW1 Dublin D08 RKW1 Ireland Ireland Tel: +353 1 7013916 Tel:+353 1 7013923 Contacts Contacts Member Rep: Dave Bradley Member Rep: Dave Bradley Trustee(s): Brendan Clahane, Kevin Trustee(s): Jim Browne, Paul Callan, Conlon, Jim Foley, Ray Lawlor, Joe Maher Brian Duncan (Chairman), Jim Foley, (Chairman), Michael McKeown, Frank Brian Loughran, Gerry Nolan, Frank O’Brien, Paul O’Rorke O’Brien, Mick Scully Pension Manager: Brian McCann, Pension Manager: Brian McCann, Ciaran Naughton Ciaran Naughton Providers Investment Manager: Irish Life Investment
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Providers operated by ESB Networks that powers Investment Manager: Irish Life Investment every electricity customer in the country. Managers, KBI Global Investors Ltd, PIMCO Europe, Delta Partners, Fountain Address Healthcare, Irish Forestry Unit Trust, The Oval Seroba Bio Ventures, Irish Property Unit 160 Shelbourne Road Trust, Insight Investment Ballsbridge Property Adviser: Bannon Commercial Dublin D04 FW28 Solicitors: Vincent & Beatty Ireland Custodian: Northern Trust Tel: +353 1 6771700 Actuary: Mercer www.eirgridgroup.com Auditor: Duignan Carthy O’Neill Contacts Numbers Member Rep: Tony Fleming Total Number of Employees: 2750 Numbers Deferred Pensioners: 4400 Total Number of Employees: 410 Pensioners: 10000 Deferred Pensioners: 175 Active Members: 1750 Pensioners: 17 Total Scheme Members: 16150 Active Members: 360 Categories Total Scheme Members: 552 Integrated with State Scheme: No Categories Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes DB/DC: Defined Benefit Self Administered Scheme: Yes Contributory/Non-Contributory: DB/DC: Defined Benefit Contributory Size of Fund: €112,000,000 Size of Fund: €4,275,000,000 Fund Range: 101-250M Fund Range: > 500M Have Member Trustees: Yes Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Segregated, Unitised Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Elan Corporation plc Individual Trustee Pension Schemes Headquartered in Ireland, Perrigo EirGrid Company plc is a leading global healthcare supplier that develops, manufactures Since 2006, EirGrid has operated and and distributes over-the-counter and developed the national high voltage generic prescription pharmaceuticals, electricity grid in Ireland. EirGrid is infant formulas, nutritional products, a state-owned company. EirGrid is animal health, dietary supplements, active independent from ESB. We operate the pharmaceutical ingredients and medical flow of power on the grid and plan for its diagnostic products. future, while ESB networks is responsible for carrying out maintenance, repairs and Pursuant to the terms of a transaction construction on the grid. The grid moves agreement entered into on July 28, 2013, wholesale power around the country. We between Elan Corporation plc and Perrigo bring energy from generation stations Company (a Michigan Corporation) on to heavy industry and high-tech users. December 18, 2013, Perrigo completed We also supply the distribution network its acquisition of the Elan group, formed
100 IAPF YEARBOOK 2019 E as a new Irish parent company, Perrigo elipsLife Company plc. and listed on the New York elipsLife is part of the Swiss Re group, the and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchanges. world’s leading life and health reinsurer. At Perrigo, our mission is clear, “Quality elipsLife is a life insurance company that Affordable Healthcare Products®”. focuses on the corporate customer business (B2B). It offers all the insurance products Please see www.perrigo.com for that cover the financial consequences of more information. sickness and accidents. The focus falls on group life and long-term disability Address insurance for Trustees and Employers. Perrigo Company plc Treasury Building Address Lower Grand Canal Street 3rd Floor, College Park House Dublin 2 20 Nassau Street Ireland Dublin D02 VY46 Tel: +353 1 7094000 Ireland www.perrigo.com Tel: +353 85 1046036 Contacts www.elipsLife.com Member Rep: Annette Corcoran Contacts Categories Member Rep: Ross Mitchell Self Administered Scheme: No
EMC Corporation Eli Lilly Kinsale Limited Address Address Ovens Dunderrow Cork Kinsale Ireland Co Cork Tel: +353 021 4281500 Ireland www.ireland.emc.com Tel: +353 21 4706122 Contacts Contacts Member Rep: Jennifer McSweeney Member Rep: Chris Kirkby HR: Jennifer McSweeney Providers Categories Auditor: EY DB/DC: Defined Contribution Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Numbers Total Number of Employees: 670 Deferred Pensioners: 159 Pensioners: 176 Active Members: 670 Total Scheme Members: 1005 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Benefit Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory
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Epoch Investment Partners Ervia
Address 3rd Floor Webworks Eglinton Street Cork Epoch is a global asset management Ireland firm that provides U.S., non-U.S. and Tel: +353 21 4239160 global equity strategies for institutional clients. Epoch’s investment approach is Contacts based on fundamental research and seeks Member Rep: Gillian Murray to invest in companies that can grow free Pension Manager: Gillian Murray cash-flow and allocate it effectively for the Providers benefit of shareholders. Epoch’s culture Auditor: Deloitte is investment driven, collaborative and Solicitors: Arthur Cox designed to help our clients achieve their Investment Manager: Aon, Mercer investment objectives. Numbers Deferred Pensioners: 698 Epoch was formed in 2004 and over the Pensioners: 573 years has grown to over 100 employees, Active Members: 1740 including 50 investment professionals who Total Scheme Members: 3011 average 23 years of investment experience. Epoch services approximately 150 client Categories relationships and has approximately €38 Integrated with State Scheme: Yes billion AuM as of June 30, 2018. Epoch Irish Pension Scheme: Yes has enjoyed organisational stability Self Administered Scheme: No throughout its history. We have retained DB/DC: Multi key professionals, many of whom were Contributory/Non-Contributory: instrumental in Epoch’s founding and Contributory subsequent growth, and are still active in Fund Range: 251-500M our management today. Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Segregated Address Have Member Trustees: Yes 4th Floor, Carrington House Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both 126-130 Regent Street London W1B 5SE United Kingdom ESB Pensions Tel: +44 203 8793904 Address www.eipny.com Two Gateway Contacts East Wall Road Member Rep: Peter Curry Dublin D03 A995 Ireland Tel: +353 1 7027886 www.esb.ie Contacts Pension Manager: James O’Loughlin
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Numbers Eversheds Sutherland Total Number of Employees: 5995 Deferred Pensioners: 2037 Pensioners: 7619 Active Members: 5995 Total Scheme Members: 15651 Categories Irish Pension Scheme: Yes DB/DC: Multi Eversheds Sutherland is a leading Contributory/Non-Contributory: international law firm with a particular Contributory expertise in pension law. Based in Dublin Size of Fund: €5,155,414,206 and Belfast we advise trustees, employers Fund Range: > 500M and employee representatives on both Segregated/Unitised and Insured: private and public sector schemes. We Segregated, Unitised benefit from the unrivalled expertise and Have Member Trustees: Yes knowledge of the Eversheds Sutherland Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: global reach which comprises of 66 offices Individual Trustee across 32 jurisdictions.
Address Eugene F. Collins Solicitors One Earlsfort Centre Address Earlsfort Terrace Temple Chambers Dublin 2 3 Burlington Road Ireland Dublin 4 Tel: +353 1 6644200 Ireland www.eversheds-sutherland.ie Tel: +353 1 2026400 Contacts www.efc.ie Member Rep: Peter Fahy CEO/Managing Director: Alan Murphy Finance: Mike Smith European Pensioneer Trustee Providers Co. Ltd Investment Manager: Merrion Investment Managers, Appian Wealth Management Address Categories 29 Windsor Place DB/DC: Defined Contribution Dublin 2 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Ireland Contributory Tel: +353 1 6815290 Fund Range: 0-25M Numbers Have Member Trustees: Yes Total Number of Employees: 6 Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
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EY EY Pension Schemes
We know that in today’s world, employers EY is one of the leading firms of and pension schemes are facing accountants and business advisors in the unprecedented challenges. At EY, we are country with a wide range of clients who helping sponsors and trustees address these operate in all sectors of the Irish economy. challenges, providing a fresh perspective Over 1200 people are employed in the and a truly independent viewpoint. Our firm. The principal office is in Dublin with breadth of experience and service offering regional offices in Cork, Limerick and mean we can provide real insight across the Waterford. The Irish firm is a member full range of pension and HR issues. Practice of EY Global, an organisation spanning over 150 countries and drawing Professional services include actuarial on the skills and knowledge of in excess of consultancy, pensions assurance, HR 190,000 people. consulting and reward, scheme governance reviews, and tax services. Address Ernst & Young Building Address Harcourt Centre Ernst & Young Building Harcourt Street Harcourt Centre Dublin 2 Harcourt Street Ireland Dublin 2 Tel: +353 1 4750555 Ireland www.ey.com/ireland Tel: +353 1 4750555 Contacts www.ey.com/ireland Pension Manager: Julianna Oladipo Contacts Chairman: Declan O’Neill Member Rep: Christopher Bown Trustee(s): Niall Coveney, Dargan FitzGerald, Pat O’Brien, Declan O’Neill, Catherine Vaughan Providers Investment Manager: Irish Life, Aberdeen Standard Investments, Schroders Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Investment Consultant: Mercer Investment Consulting, Willis Towers Watson Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Auditor: Grant Thornton Administrator: Willis Towers Watson
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Numbers DB/DC: Multi Total Number of Employees: 1225 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Deferred Pensioners: 777 Contributory Pensioners: 27 Size of Fund: €150,000,000 Active Members: 579 Fund Range: 101-250M Total Scheme Members: 1383 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Categories Have Member Trustees: Yes Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Corporate Body Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Multi Contributory/Non-Contributory: Finastra Ireland Limited Contributory International Financial Software Fund Range: 26-100M Development Company Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Address Individual Trustee First Floor, Block G Eastpoint Business Park Clontarf FBD Insurance Group Ltd. Dublin 3 FBD is one of the country’s largest insurers Ireland with local sales offices nationwide. It Tel: +353 1 6361000 provides protection for a wide range of www.finastra.com customer general insurance needs. Contacts Member Rep: Anne Teggart In the life assurance and pensions Trustee(s): Patricia Malin, Kieran O’Dowd sector it provides financial planning Pension Manager: Anne Teggart advisory services. HR: Anne Teggart Categories Address Integrated with State Scheme: No FBD House Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Bluebell Self Administered Scheme: No Dublin 12 DB/DC: Defined Contribution Ireland Contributory/Non-Contributory: Tel: +353 1 4282344 Contributory www.fbd.ie Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Contacts Segregated, Unitised, Insured Member Rep: Sean Barnes Have Member Trustees: Yes Numbers Total Number of Employees: 957 Deferred Pensioners: 391 Pensioners: 97 Active Members: 768 Total Scheme Members: 1256 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: Yes
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First State Investments FMC International Manufacture pharmaceutical excipients and food ingredients. Part of the Health and Nutrition division of FMC Corporation.
Address First State Investments forms part of the Wallingstown consolidated asset management business Little Island of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Cork This association gives us the strength Ireland of capital required to bring innovative Tel: +353 21 4517221 products to market. Our investment http://www.fmcbiopolymer.com/ teams are structured so that they’re given a strong sense of portfolio ownership Contacts by way of team-focused incentives. We Member Rep: Kieran Hannon believe this promotes commitment and Trustee(s): Kieran Hannon, Pat Higgins, intellectual engagement, aligning our Michael O’Connell interests and success with those of our Providers clients. We manage segregated mandates Solicitors: Cawley & Co for clients globally and have offices in Auditor: KPMG Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, London, Actuary: Aon Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Paris, New York, Investment Manager: State Street Global Louisville, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Advisors Jakarta and Tokyo. Numbers Total Number of Employees: 120 First State Investments has a range Deferred Pensioners: 11 of product solutions for investors Pensioners: 37 globally across a diverse range of asset Active Members: 113 classes. These include Australian equities, Total Scheme Members: 161 global equities, global emerging market equities, global resource equities, Categories global property securities, global listed Integrated with State Scheme: Yes infrastructure securities, global fixed Irish Pension Scheme: Yes interest and credit, emerging market debt Self Administered Scheme: No and short term investments. DB/DC: Hybrid Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Address Fund Range: 0-25M Finsbury Circus House Have Member Trustees: Yes 15 Finsbury Circus Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: London EC2M 7EB Corporate Body United Kingdom Tel: +44 207 3326866 www.firststateinvestments.com Contacts Member Rep: Frank Glennon Investment: Frank Glennon, Alex Mackenzie Smith Finance: Frank Glennon
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Fórsa Categories Integrated with State Scheme: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Contribution Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Fórsa is a registered trade union and Corporate Body represents 80,000 public and private sector workers. It is affiliated to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Friends First Life Assurance Address Co Ltd Nerney’s Court Dublin D01 R2C5 Ireland Tel: +353 1 8171500 www.forsa.ie Contacts Member Rep: Matt Staunton Friends First provides a full range of Trustee(s): Geraldine O’Brien pension and life assurance products Numbers and services, which includes group life, Total Number of Employees: 125 and income continuance and pensions Categories investment and administration. Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Have Member Trustees: Yes Address Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Friends First House Individual Trustee Cherrywood Business Park Loughlinstown Dublin 18 Frank Glennon (Life & Ireland Pensions) Ltd Tel: +353 1 6610600(0) Contacts Address Member Rep: Simon Hoffman Charlemont House Trustee(s): Eugene Gibney, Simon Hoffman Charlemont Place Investment: Eugene Gibney Dublin D02 XR80 Finance: Tom Browne Ireland Providers Tel: +353 1 7075880 Investment Manager: F & C Ireland www.glennons.ie Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Contacts Accountant: Tom Browne, FIA Member Rep: Jeffrey Lord Actuary: Tom Browne, FIA Managing Director: David Glennon Auditor: PwC Numbers Administrator: Friends First Total Number of Employees: 106
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Numbers If you’d like to find out how we could help Total Number of Employees: 892 you boost engagement in your pension Deferred Pensioners: 363 benefits and in doing so help your members Pensioners: 68 towards better retirement outcomes please Active Members: 461 get in touch. Total Scheme Members: 892 Categories Address Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Liss Mill Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Mill Road Self Administered Scheme: No Liss DB/DC: Defined Benefit Hampshire GU33 7BD Contributory/Non-Contributory: United Kingdom Contributory Tel: +44 173 0891212 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: www.gallaghercommunication.com Segregated, Unitised Contacts Have Member Trustees: Yes Member Rep: Ryan Eves Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Director: Matt Frost Individual Trustee
GAM Investments Gallagher Communication At GAM, we value original thinking, Gallagher Communication (formerly swift decision making and a disciplined SHILLING) is an employee communication approach to investing. Our job is to consultancy that specialises in pension put clients’ capital to work to help and benefits. them achieve their aspirations and make sense of the markets through our For 19 years we have been leading insights and investment acumen. We the way in pension communication manage EUR120 billion in assets for and our thought leadership continues to institutions, financial advisers and private be recognised by the industry in the UK investors. Our investment professionals & Ireland. work with integrity, conviction and an entrepreneurial mind-set. For more than We have a proven track-record in 30 years, we’ve been providing active developing and implementing bespoke investment solutions across asset classes. communication strategies that achieve With over 900 people in 13 countries, measurable engagement for Employers we are a truly global firm in scale and and Trustee Boards both in Ireland and resources, yet small enough to remain the UK. nimble and flexible to meet clients’ needs. Our specialist services include: Working with us means investing in honest foresight and human rigour and • Member/Employee research a fundamental belief in the potential of • Communication strategies capital. GAM: advancing potential. • Branding • Literature production Address • Benefit statements 20 King Street • Personalised print London SW1Y 6QY • Digital engagement United Kingdom • Tools and modellers Tel: +44 207 4939990 • Video and animation www.gam.com
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Contacts Total Scheme Members: 3381 Member Rep: Emmet Naughton Categories Numbers Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Total Number of Employees: 900 Self Administered Scheme: Yes DB/DC: Multi Contributory/Non-Contributory: Glanbia plc Contributory Size of Fund: €522,000,000 Glanbia plc is a global nutritional group, Fund Range: > 500M headquartered in Ireland with operations Have Member Trustees: Yes in 32 countries worldwide, with an annual Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both turnover of over €3.7 billion and 6,200 employees. Glanbia’s major production facilities are located in Ireland, the US, GlaxoSmithKline (Ireland) Ltd the UK, Germany and China. Glanbia has two global growth platforms in Glanbia GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s Performance Nutrition and Glanbia leading pharmaceutical companies, Nutritionals. Glanbia Performance has manufacturing facilities at Cork, Nutrition is the global leader in the Dungarvan and Sligo. It manages its Irish performance nutrition business. Glanbia commercial business from offices at the Nutritionals is a provider of sophisticated Citywest Business Campus in Dublin. and innovative nutritional solutions and The GlaxoSmithKline companies is the number one marketer of American- in Ireland are Irish subsidiaries of style cheddar cheese. Glanbia has a strong GlaxoSmithKline plc, one of the world’s heritage in Dairy Ireland and has key leading pharmaceutical companies. strategic long term partnerships in its Joint Ventures and Associates. Address 12 Riverwalk Address Citywest Business Campus Glanbia House Citywest Kilkenny Dublin 24 Ireland Ireland Tel: +353 56 7772200 Tel: +353 1 4955000 Providers Contacts Investment Manager: State Street Global Member Rep: Declan Bailey Advisors, KBI Global Investors, ILIM, Trustee(s): Declan Bailey, Des Burke, Principal, PIMCO, Standard Life, Nigel Corkery, Aidan Lynch Wellington Management, BNY Mellon HR: Declan Bailey Asset Management Ltd Providers Solicitors: Matheson Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Accountant: PwC Auditor: PwC Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Actuary: Invesco Limited Auditor: PwC Investment Manager: Legal & General Administrator: Glanbia plc Categories Numbers Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Total Number of Employees: 2450 Self Administered Scheme: No Deferred Pensioners: 1339 DB/DC: Multi Pensioners: 926 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Active Members: 1116 Contributory
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Fund Range: 251-500M Contacts Have Member Trustees: Yes Member Rep: Chloe Goddard Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Categories Individual Trustee DB/DC: Defined Benefit Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Fund Range: 0-25M Goldman Sachs Asset Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Management International Goldman Sachs Asset Management, (GSAM) is one of the leading global Goodbody investment managers, providing institutional investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning asset classes, industries and geographies. Our investment solutions include fixed income, money markets, public equity, commodities, hedge Goodbody, part of the Fexco Group, is funds, private equity and real estate. Ireland’s longest established stockbroking Our clients access these solutions firm with roots dating back to 1874. As well through our proprietary strategies, as being one of the leading institutional strategic partnerships and our open brokers and corporate finance houses, we architecture programs. are one of the largest wealth management firms in Ireland. Over the years, we GSAM relationship and portfolio managers have gained considerable knowledge visit Dublin on a regular basis and host and expertise in Irish and international investment seminars throughout the investment markets and established a year. Over the years, we have successfully reputation built on expertise, innovation partnered with a number of high-profile and most importantly trust. As one of institutional investors where we have Ireland’s most experienced stockbroking focused on delivering highly tailored firms, we recognise that each client solutions and sharing our knowledge, has individual goals and requirements. expertise and best practices with the Depending on those needs, we can offer client. GSAM currently manages €2bn* clients a range of Wealth Management on behalf of Irish institutional investors, services from financial planning, bespoke including Irish pension plans, and has investment management to trading strong relationships with various Irish accounts for those clients with a shorter consultants, independent advisory firms term investment horizon. and corporates. Address *31st August 2017 AUM. 2, Ballsbridge Park Ballsbridge Address Dublin 4 River Court Ireland 120 Fleet Street Tel: +353 1 6670400 London EC4A 2BE www.goodbody.ie United Kingdom Contacts Tel: +44 20 77743542 Member Rep: Jim Connolly www.gsam.com Trustee(s): Johnny Cleary, Finbarr Griffin,
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Kathryn Hannon, Martin O’Hora HR: Sarah Downing Director: David Lowe Managing Director: Roy Barrett Finance: Johnny Cleary Grafton Group plc Pension Manager: Jim Connolly Providers Address Auditor: Byrne Moreau & Connell 2 Wythall Green Way Actuary: Invesco Limited Boundary House Administrator: Invesco Limited Wythall Investment Manager: Goodbody Birmingham B47 6LW Stockbrokers United Kingdom Numbers Tel: +44 156 4821612 Total Number of Employees: 250 Contacts Active Members: 250 Member Rep: Robin Glaze Total Scheme Members: 250 Pension Manager: Robin Glaze Categories Numbers Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Total Number of Employees: 1094 Self Administered Scheme: Yes Deferred Pensioners: 265 DB/DC: Defined Contribution Active Members: 1094 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Non Total Scheme Members: 1359 Contributory Categories Fund Range: 26-100M DB/DC: Multi Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Contributory/Non-Contributory: Segregated Contributory Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Grant Thornton
Governance Matters Limited Chartered Accountants Financial Advisers
Governance Matters is an independent Address consultancy business providing services 24-26 City Quay in the areas of Governance, Compliance Dublin 2 and Risk Management to the Pensions and Ireland Insurance industry. Tel: +353 1 6805742 Contacts Address Member Rep: Conail Flynn Tearmainn Dara Providers Rathmore West Custodian: Citibank, AIB NY Eadestown Solicitors: Arthur Cox Kildare Administrator: Willis Ltd Ireland Investment Manager: F & C Ireland, ILIM, Tel: +353 45 862218 New Ireland www.governancematters.ie Numbers Contacts Total Number of Employees: 58 Member Rep: Seamus Hughes CEO/Managing Director: Seamus Hughes Categories Integrated with State Scheme: No
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Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Categories Self Administered Scheme: Yes Integrated with State Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Contribution Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Contributory/Non-Contributory: Self Administered Scheme: No Contributory DB/DC: Defined Contribution Size of Fund: €1,700,000 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Fund Range: 0-25M Contributory Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Size of Fund: €10,000,000 Segregated Fund Range: 0-25M Have Member Trustees: No Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Corporate Body
Greenman Investments Greencore Group plc Greenman is a sector specific real estate investment fund manager, authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland as an AIFM. Our focus is to provide investors with consistent income. We achieve this by acquiring one asset type - German Fachmarktzentren.
We have 6 operational funds that own 53 Address German centres valued at c. €395m, with No. 2 Northwood Avenue a combined let area of c.224,427 sqm, let Northwood Business Park to Germany’s largest food retailers. They Santry generate large income surpluses which are Dublin 9 distributed to investors annually. Ireland Tel: +353 1 6051000 As recognised Fachmarktzentren www.greencore.com specialists we have the local knowledge, market understanding and industry Contacts relationships to acquire centres that can Member Rep: Conor O’Leary generate the returns needed to consistently Pension Manager: Conor O’Leary meet our funds’ targets. HR: Conor O’Leary Providers Address Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Crescent Hall Auditor: BDO Simpson Xavier Mount Street Crescent Actuary: Mercer Dublin D02 YF20 Investment Manager: Irish Life Ireland Numbers Tel: +353 1 6471121 Deferred Pensioners: 61 www.greenman.com Active Members: 50 Total Scheme Members: 111
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Harvest Financial HC Financial Services Limited Advisers Limited
FINANCIAL
Harvest Financial Services Ltd (Harvest) HC Financial Advisers Limited is the has grown to be one of Ireland’s leading largest independent financial services financial advisory firms, providing consultancy in the West of Ireland. We pensions, investments and financial provide comprehensive employee benefits planning solutions to our clients. Wholly consulting services to small, medium owned by its management, Harvest and large firms. We also offer individual has been trading since 1993 and now and corporate trustee services to pension employs over 50 highly qualified staff. schemes depending on their needs. We administer approximately €1 billion Our employee engagement programme assets on behalf of pension funds, private is available to all multinational and individuals, corporations and charities. indigenous companies. We also have a Non-aligned with any third party trustee company, HC Pensioneer Trustees institution, Harvest can bring the whole DAC., which is a wholly owned subsidiary world of investment opportunity to our of HC Financial Advisers Limited. clients. Occasionally, where Harvest can not source the appropriate investment to Address meet client needs from the market, Harvest Oranmore Business Park will develop an in-house structure that Oranmore brings the opportunity to our clients. Galway Harvest is primarily a fee-based advisory Ireland firm and cost transparency is at the core of Tel: +353 91 788000 everything we do. Furthermore, wherever www.hcgroup.ie possible, Harvest involve the client directly Contacts in the investment process, ensuring that Member Rep: Brian Molloy funds only go where they want them to go. Pension Manager: Mairead Feeney CEO/Managing Director: Gerry Cuddy Address Block 3 The Oval Shelbourne Road Ballsbridge Dublin D04 T8F2 Ireland Tel: +353 1 2375500 www.harvestfinancial.ie Contacts Member Rep: Emer Kirk Pension Manager: Emer Kirk
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Heinz H J Company (Ireland) Ltd Providers Auditor: PwC Sales, Marketing & Distribution of Food Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Products in Ireland. Custodian: Northern Trust Independent Trustee: Trustee Principles Address Administrator: Mercer Stradbrook House Investment Manager: Insight Investment Stradbrook Road Blackrock Numbers Co Dublin Total Number of Employees: 34 Ireland Deferred Pensioners: 33 Tel: +353 1 2805757 Pensioners: 212 Active Members: 28 Providers Total Scheme Members: 273 Auditor: PwC Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Categories Investment Manager: Irish Life Integrated with State Scheme: No Investment Managers Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No Numbers DB/DC: Defined Benefit Total Number of Employees: 17 Contributory/Non-Contributory: Deferred Pensioners: 49 Contributory Pensioners: 2 Size of Fund: €94,000,000 Active Members: 12 Fund Range: 26-100M Total Scheme Members: 63 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Categories Segregated Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Have Member Trustees: No Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Self Administered Scheme: Yes Trustee DB/DC: Defined Benefit Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Hewlett Packard Size of Fund: €11,300,000 Fund Range: 0-25M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
Henry Ford and Sons Ltd Motor Vehicle Wholesale Distribution. Address Ballybrit Business Park Address Ballybrit Elm Court Galway Boreenmanna Road Ireland Cork T12 HHW2 Tel: +353 91 754000 Ireland Contacts Tel: +353 21 4329277 Member Rep: Louise Hayes www.ford.ie Trustee(s): Louise Hayes
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Providers Self Administered Scheme: No Actuary: Mercer DB/DC: Defined Benefit Auditor: EY Contributory/Non-Contributory: Solicitors: A&L Goodbody Contributory Numbers Have Member Trustees: Yes Deferred Pensioners: 656 Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both Pensioners: 312 Active Members: 128 Categories Horse Racing Ireland Integrated with State Scheme: No Address Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Ballymany Self Administered Scheme: No The Curragh DB/DC: Defined Benefit Co Kildare Contributory/Non-Contributory: Ireland Contributory Tel: +353 45 455455 Fund Range: 251-500M www.goracing.ie Have Member Trustees: Yes Contacts Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Member Rep: Claire Rudd Individual Trustee HR: Carol Nolan Finance: Suzanne Eade, Claire Rudd Hollister ULC
Address House of Fraser (Ireland) Foxford Road Pension Trust Ltd Rehins Ballina Address Co Mayo 27 Baker Street Ireland London W1U 8AH Tel: +353 96 60600 United Kingdom Tel: +44 207 0034470 Contacts www.houseoffraser.co.uk Member Rep: Tom Horkan Finance: Lorraine McDermott Contacts HR: Tom Horkan Member Rep: Suzanne Willshire Pension Manager: Suzanne Willshire Providers Auditor: Deloitte Providers Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Investment Manager: Legal & General Investment Manager: State Street Global Solicitors: Matheson Advisors Investment Consultant: Aon Actuary: Aon Numbers Auditor: RSM Ireland Total Number of Employees: 550 Administrator: Equiniti Paymaster Deferred Pensioners: 50 Pensioners: 50 Numbers Active Members: 350 Deferred Pensioners: 46 Total Scheme Members: 450 Pensioners: 7 Active Members: 27 Categories Total Scheme Members: 80 Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes
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Categories Members get unrivalled access to market Integrated with State Scheme: No data, economic and legal briefings, Irish Pension Scheme: Yes executive networking events and sector- Self Administered Scheme: Yes specific conferences across the entire DB/DC: Defined Benefit economy. Members can also tap into the Contributory/Non-Contributory: scale of our employment law and HR Contributory practice to support with employee relations Size of Fund: €1,426,250 and HR policies and procedures. Fund Range: 0-25M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Address Have Member Trustees: Yes 84-86 Lower Baggot Street Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Dublin 2 Corporate Body Ireland Tel: +353 1 6051500 www.ibec.ie Ibec
IBM Ireland Ltd Supplier of computer products, software and services. Established in Ireland in 1956. Part of the IBM Corporation. Also has a technology campus employing 2,000+ in Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin and a PC support and telemarketing centre in Blanchardstown, employing 1,200.
Address IBM House Ibec is Ireland’s largest, most influential Shelbourne Road and best known business representation Ballsbridge organisation. Along with its 40+ industry Dublin 4 sector associations, Ibec lead, shape and Ireland promote business conditions to drive Tel: +353 1 8154000 economic growth and secure prosperity, right across the country. Contacts Trustee(s): Edward Adams, Philip Cassidy, Ibec proudly represent a diverse Rosemaree Danaher, Mark Fox, Patrick membership of over 7,500 businesses; Grant, Rijk Griffioen, Bernadette Keating, home grown, multinational, big and small, Bernard Neeson, Eileen Shanahan spanning every sector of the economy. Ibec HR: Eileen Shanahan works with its members to develop policy Finance: Rosemaree Danaher in key areas of interest - from shaping an Categories agile flexible labour market to promoting Irish Pension Scheme: Yes ambitious investment in critical public Self Administered Scheme: No infrastructure and education systems. DB/DC: Multi Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
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ICOS/DEA Pension Trustees Ltd Independent Trustee Limited
Address Plunkett House 84 Merrion Square Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: +353 1 6764783 Contacts Member Rep: Gerry Armstrong Pension Manager: Gerry Armstrong Independent Trustee Limited is an Finance: Brian O’Dowd established provider of independent professional trusteeship services to Providers occupational pension schemes, private Solicitors: Arthur Cox trusts and share schemes. ITL is supported Auditor: Gerard P Reynolds & Assoc. by a wealth of experienced professionals in Actuary: Mercer the fields of trusteeship, pensions and law. Investment Manager: State Street Global ITL can act as either sole or joint trustee Advisors, ILIM, Mercer or through participation on a board of a Numbers trustee company to suit the needs of the Total Number of Employees: 46 scheme. The services and expertise we offer Deferred Pensioners: 51 are of increasing importance in today’s Pensioners: 62 environment of changing compliance and Active Members: 46 governance requirement. Total Scheme Members: 159 Categories Address Integrated with State Scheme: No Harmony Court Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Harmony Row Self Administered Scheme: Yes Dublin 2 DB/DC: Defined Benefit Ireland Contributory/Non-Contributory: Tel: +353 1 6148079 Contributory www.trustee.ie Fund Range: 26-100M Contacts Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Member Rep: Elma Fox Segregated Trustee(s): Elma Fox Have Member Trustees: Yes Director: Elma Fox Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body
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Insight Investment Intel Ireland Ltd
Address Collinstown Industrial Estate Leixlip Co Kildare Ireland Tel: +353 1 6067000 www.intel.com Insight Investment is a leading global Contacts asset manager delivering bespoke risk Member Rep: Denise Twomey management solutions to a wide range of Pension Manager: Denise Twomey clients across liability driven investment Categories (LDI), active fixed income, multi-asset, Integrated with State Scheme: Yes liquidity solutions, absolute return, DB/DC: Multi currency risk management and specialist Contributory/Non-Contributory: equity strategies. Contributory Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both We aim to develop resilient portfolios to meet our clients’ specific requirements. Our investment strategies are designed to Invesco Ltd evolve dynamically to meet changing needs and stay ahead of market developments. We remain at the forefront of recognising the importance of liabilities for pension schemes and are a pioneer of LDI which has been a significant contributor to protecting funding levels over the past decade. Invesco Limited is Ireland’s largest privately owned Employee Benefits Located across the globe, our clients Consultancy, providing comprehensive include pension schemes (both defined employee benefits, administration and benefit and defined contribution), actuarial services to a wide range of corporations, insurers, sovereign wealth multinational and indigenous companies. funds, wealth managers, financial institutions, charities and private We are unique in the Irish market individuals. We have a significant place, in that we offer a single pension institutional client base in Ireland who administration platform catering for invest across a wide range of our solutions. DC, DB and AVC schemes, allowing all members full 24/7 access to their Address pension accounts. 160 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4LA Address United Kingdom 2 Sandyford Business Centre Tel: +44 207 3211547 Burtonhall Road www.insightinvestment.com Sandyford Contacts Dublin 18 Member Rep: Mark Ashley Ireland Tel: +353 1 2947600 www.invesco.ie
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Contacts Investec Asset Management Member Rep: Des McGarry HR: Niamh Moore Managing Director: Des McGarry Providers Actuary: Frank Downey Asset Management Accountant: Hilary McCowen Auditor: Mazars Solicitors: Mangan O’Beirne Investec Asset Management is a specialist Investment Manager: Irish Life investment manager, providing a premier range of products to institutional and Numbers individual investors. Employees are equity Total Number of Employees: 105 stakeholders in the firm. Established in Active Members: 80 1991, the firm has been built from start-up Total Scheme Members: 80 into an international business managing Categories approximately US$124bn* on behalf of DB/DC: Defined Contribution third party clients. We have grown from Contributory/Non-Contributory: domestic roots in Southern Africa and Contributory the UK to a position where we proudly Fund Range: 0-25M serve a growing international client Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: base from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Corporate Body Australia, the Middle East and Africa. We employ over 184 investment professionals. The firm seeks to create a profitable Invesco Perpetual partnership between clients, shareholders Invesco Perpetual forms part of and employees, and to exceed clients’ Invesco Ltd., one of the world’s performance and service expectations. leading independent global investment Investec Asset Management is a significant management organisations. This component and independently managed allows us to offer our institutional entity within the Investec Group, which is clients specialised investment expertise, listed in London and Johannesburg. delivering diversified investment strategies *as at end June 2017 for asset classes ranging from equity, fixed income and multi asset, to other Address alternatives including real estate, private 25 Basinghall Street equity and commodities. Woolgate Exchange London EC2V 5HA Address United Kingdom 43 - 45 Portman Square Tel: +44 207 5972101 London W1H 6LY www.investecassetmanagement.com United Kingdom Tel: +44 207 5433556 Contacts www.invescoperpetual.co.uk/institutional Member Rep: Ethan Allen Contacts Member Rep: Stephen Messenger Trustee(s): Stephen Messenger Investment: Stephen Messenger Numbers Total Number of Employees: 5800
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IPUT plc Address The Times Building IPUT is the largest unlisted property 11-12 D’Olier Street vehicle in Ireland with an unrivalled track Dublin 2 record in delivering superior income Ireland returns to shareholders. Tel: +353 1 6718655 www.iaa.ie Address 47/49 St. Stephen’s Green Contacts Dublin 2 Member Rep: Maeve Hogan Ireland Trustee(s): Maeve Hogan Tel: +353 1 6613499 Finance: Maeve Hogan www.iput.com Providers Contacts Solicitors: Eversheds Sutherland Member Rep: Pat McGinley Auditor: KPMG Finance: Pat McGinley Actuary: Mercer Administrator: Mercer Categories Investment Manager: Mercer Irish Pension Scheme: No Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Numbers Size of Fund: €2,400,000,000 Total Number of Employees: 660 Fund Range: > 500M Deferred Pensioners: 88 Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Pensioners: 423 Corporate Body Active Members: 636 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Aviation Authority Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Self Administered Scheme: No DB/DC: Multi Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Size of Fund: €540,000,000 Fund Range: > 500M Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Segregated The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) Have Member Trustees: Yes is Ireland’s civil aviation authority. It Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Both manages air traffic in Irish controlled airspace covering approximately 450,000 square kilometers and regulates the Irish Blood Transfusion Service aviation safety standards with which Irish Address aviation operators must comply. These National Blood Centre safety standards are set internationally. James’s Street Approximately 90% of all air traffic Dublin 8 between Europe and North America Ireland currently use Irish controlled airspace. Tel: +353 1 4322800 The IAA is a commercial Semi-State Contacts company. Member Rep: Paul Kelly Trustee(s): John Crowley, Paul Kelly, Peter McDonnell, Noel Murphy, Jane O’Brien
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Mullins, Nessan Rickard Deferred Pensioners: 213 Numbers Pensioners: 832 Total Number of Employees: 577 Active Members: 191 Deferred Pensioners: 542 Total Scheme Members: 1236 Pensioners: 161 Categories Active Members: 442 Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Total Scheme Members: 1145 Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Categories Self Administered Scheme: Yes Integrated with State Scheme: No DB/DC: Defined Benefit Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Contributory/Non-Contributory: Self Administered Scheme: No Contributory DB/DC: Defined Benefit Size of Fund: €286,255,000 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Fund Range: 251-500M Have Member Trustees: Yes Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Segregated Individual Trustee Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Corporate Body Irish Cement Ltd Irish Co-Operative Societies’ Pension Scheme
Address Plunkett House 84 Merrion Square Irish Cement Limited, a company Dublin 2 within the CRH Group, is a producer Ireland of cementitious materials for the Irish, Tel: +353 1 6764783 Northern Ireland and overseas markets. Contacts Address Member Rep: Gerry Armstrong Platin Finance: Brian O’Dowd Drogheda Providers Co Louth Solicitors: Arthur Cox Ireland Auditor: Gerard P Reynolds & Assoc. Tel: +353 41 9876000 Actuary: Mercer www.irishcement.ie Investment Manager: State Street Global Contacts Advisors, AllianceBernstein Member Rep: John Corbett Numbers Trustee(s): John Corbett, Tom Healy, Eddie Deferred Pensioners: 1092 McDonnell, Jack Slattery Pensioners: 1096 Providers Active Members: 1230 Auditor: EY Total Scheme Members: 3418 Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Categories Administrator: Irish Cement Limited DB/DC: Defined Benefit Investment Manager: Capital International, Contributory/Non-Contributory: KBI Global Investors, BlackRock, Irish Life Contributory Numbers Fund Range: 101-250M Total Number of Employees: 231 Have Member Trustees: Yes
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Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: BL, Heissmann Consultants (Irl) Ltd Individual Trustee Actuary: Derek McNamee FIA Auditor: Mazars Administrator: In House Irish Distillers Limited Numbers Deferred Pensioners: 133 Pensioners: 440 Active Members: 430 Total Scheme Members: 1003 Categories Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Irish Distillers distils and distributes Self Administered Scheme: No internationally a range of famous Irish DB/DC: Defined Benefit whiskey, gin and vodka brands. Contributory/Non-Contributory: Both Our Irish Whiskeys include the Jameson Fund Range: 26-100M family, Powers, Paddy, and a range of Segregated/Unitised and Insured: deluxe whiskeys including Midleton Segregated Very Rare and Redbreast. Along with our Have Member Trustees: Yes whiskeys we have one Gin product: Cork Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Dry Gin, and in the Vodka category we Corporate Body have ABSOLUT and Huzzar vodka.
We also distribute a range of international Irish Ferries Ltd brands such as Havana Club, Malibu, Kahlua, Stolichnaya vodka and many more. Jameson, the world’s leading Irish whiskey brand reached sales of two million cases for the first time in early 2006.
Address Simmonscourt House Simmonscourt Road Irish Ferries is a wholly owned Ballsbridge subsidiary of Irish Continental Group Dublin 4 plc and is Ireland’s largest passenger car Ireland ferry and roll-on, roll-off freight ferry Tel: +353 1 2129000 services operator. www.pernod-ricard.com Address Contacts P.O. Box 19 Member Rep: Claire Nolan Ferryport Trustee(s): Tom Dunphy, Matt Lyons, Pat Alexandra Road Magee, Colm Maguire, Robert McDonald, Dublin D01 W2F5 Michael Power Ireland Pension Manager: Claire Nolan Tel: +353 1 6075700 Providers www.irishferries.com Investment Manager: State Street Global Contacts Advisors, Legal & General Member Rep: John Gray Solicitors: A&L Goodbody, Conor Lynch Pension Manager: John Gray
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Providers Irish Forestry Unit Trust Solicitors: Matheson Auditor: Deloitte Actuary: Willis Towers Watson Investment Manager: Legal & General Independent Trustee: Irish Ferries Pension Trustee Limited Numbers Deferred Pensioners: 525 Irish Forestry Unit Trust (IForUT), Pensioners: 685 established in 1994, is a unit trust for Active Members: 101 investment in forestry by Irish pension Total Scheme Members: 1311 funds and charities. Its objective is to Categories provide a competitive, long term real Integrated with State Scheme: Yes rate of return with low risk and volatility Irish Pension Scheme: Yes through investment in, and management Self Administered Scheme: Yes of, forest assets. DB/DC: Multi IForUT operates two separate funds Contributory/Non-Contributory: investing in Irish forestry and North Contributory American forestry respectively. Fund Range: 101-250M Have Member Trustees: Yes Address Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Suite 5, Woodford Court Individual Trustee Woodford Business Park Santry Dublin 17 Irish Flavours & Fragrances Ltd Ireland Tel: +353 1 8623440 Address www.iforut.ie Smamore Ardee Contacts Co Louth Member Rep: Brendan Lacey Ireland Providers Tel: +353 87 2889167 Auditor: PwC Contacts Solicitors: McCann FitzGerald Member Rep: John Byrne Categories Trustee(s): John Byrne Size of Fund: €320,000,000 Numbers Fund Range: 251-500M Total Number of Employees: 1 Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Deferred Pensioners: 61 Pensioners: 15 Active Members: 1 Total Scheme Members: 77 Categories DB/DC: Defined Benefit Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contributory Fund Range: 0-25M Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: Individual Trustee
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Irish Life Assurance Irish Life Corporate Business Irish Life is one of Ireland’s leading financial institutions in life assurance, pensions and investments for companies and individuals. The company has an outstanding reputation for innovation and is committed to providing exceptional Irish Life Corporate Business is the biggest customer service throughout its operations. provider of employee benefit solutions in Ireland. We work with employers across Irish Life is part of the Great-West Lifeco the country, supporting group pension and group of companies, one of the world’s group insurance plans for their employees. leading life assurance organisations. Our mission is to help people provide a Address secure financial future for themselves and Irish Life Centre their families. Lower Abbey Street Dublin 1 Irish Life EMPOWER is a new approach to Ireland company pensions that helps change the Tel: +353 1 7042000 way employees think about their future. www.irishlife.ie We want to ensure that employers have Contacts the best possible company pension plan. A Member Rep: Anne Marie Madden great company pension plan can help get Pension Manager: Anne Marie Madden better outcomes, both for a business and for its employees. Providers Solicitors: A&L Goodbody We constantly research, develop and Auditor: Smith Williamson Freaney enhance our products and services. Our Actuary: Mercer award winning innovation is backed Investment Manager: Irish Life by the highest standards of customer Numbers service. Since 2013 we also have the global Total Number of Employees: 2963 experience and expertise of the Great-West Deferred Pensioners: 2436 LifeCo group of companies. Pensioners: 775 Active Members: 2728 Address Total Scheme Members: 5939 Irish Life Centre Lower Abbey Street Categories Dublin 1 Integrated with State Scheme: Yes Ireland Irish Pension Scheme: Yes Tel: +353 1 7042000 Self Administered Scheme: Yes Irish Life EMPOWER is a new approach to company www.irishlifecorporatebusiness.ie pensions that helps change the way your employee s think DB/DC: Multi about their future. Contributory/Non-Contributory: Contacts To see how Irish Life could help empower your employees: Contributory Member Rep: Sean Egan Size of Fund: €1,364,586,000 Arrange a mo at IrishLife .i Fund Range: > 500M Call us on Segregated/Unitised and Insured: Unitised Talk to your io co l Have Member Trustees: Yes Corporate/Individual Tr/Both: ow i li . i i . Individual Trustee
All information sourced for Irish Life, November 2017. In the interest of customer service we may record and monitor calls.
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