All Alternatives articles – Page 114
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Mn Services names equities director
NETHERLANDS - Dutch fiduciary management firm Mn Services has named Patrick Wierckx as director of equities.
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Swiss schemes still cutting domestic securities
SWITZERLAND – Swiss pension funds have continued to cut their allocation to domestic bonds and equities, according to a report from Credit Suisse.
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French reserve fund grows to €28bn
FRANCE - The FRR, the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites or French Pensions Reserve Fund, has grown to €28.1bn after making a 4.3% return on assets in the first quarter.
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LPFA under attack in arms investments claims
UK – The roughly £3.5bn (€5bn) London Pension Fund Authority – which manages London mayor Ken Livingstone’s pension scheme – has more than £11m invested in some of the world’s largest arms manufacturers, according to the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).
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Espoo to recruit six fund managers
FINLAND - Finnish city, Espoo, is scouting for investment teams to manage a new €364m fund being created.
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Swaption case study for pension funds
Partly as a result of the introduction of the new Financial Assessment Framework (Financieel Toetsingskader – nFTK), pension funds are monitoring interest-rate risk. An average Dutch pension fund has a duration mismatch between its liabilities and its fixed-income investments. Several solutions have been suggested which includes buying long-dated bonds, LDI-funds ...
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Swiss SRI boosted by pension funds – study
SWITZERLAND – Pension funds have been the main reason why Switzerland’s socially responsible investment (SRI) volume has more than doubled since 2001, a new study claims.
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FRR awards €600m SRI mandates
FRANCE – The FRR, the €26.6bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites or French Pensions Reserve Fund, has awarded five asset managers a total of €600m in socially responsible investing mandates.
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French reserve fund re-tenders transition broking
FRANCE – The FRR, the €26.6bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites or French Pensions Reserve Fund, has re-tendered a €16bn transition broking brief it awarded to Goldman Sachs less than two years ago.
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Julius Baer asset management chief von Ah quits
SWITZERLAND – Swiss private bank Julius Baer has announced that Roman von Ah, head of asset management for continental Europe, is stepping down as of April 28.
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Pension fund FX trading surges – Greenwich
GLOBAL – Pension fund and asset manager activity in the global foreign exchange market grew 48% last year according to consulting firm Greenwich Associates.
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CalPERS names ex-DeAM’s Read as CIO
GLOBAL – The California Public Employees' Retirement System has appointed former Deutsche Asset Management deputy chief investment officer Russell Read as CIO of the $208bn (€169bn) public pension scheme.
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Austria: asset management degree offered
AUSTRIA – An advanced technical college in Vienna is offering a new master of science degree for quantitative asset management from this autumn.
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Dutch funds buy into UK private equity firm
UK - The two largest Dutch pension funds, ABP and PGGM, have put an undisclosed sum into private equity firm West Private Equity via their AlpInvest vehicle.
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Irish reserve fund updates tender process
IRELAND – The €15.4bn National Pensions Reserve Fund says it is updating its tendering process for equity managers to make it more user-friendly.
