Asset Managers – Page 182
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NewsWiltshire LGPS drops Baillie Gifford after change in investment strategy
UK – Baillie Gifford has lost control of a £160m (€191m) UK equity brief following a change of strategy at a UK local authority pension scheme.
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NewsLincolnshire scheme invests £74m in Goodhart's Total Return fund
UK – The £1bn Lincolnshire Pension Fund has invested £74m in Goodhart Partners' Target Return fund.
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Managers for Irish pension funds rally in July, return 4.2%
IRELAND – Pension funds in Ireland saw their fortunes improve last month, as the market stabilised and the average managed fund began seeing year-to-date returns of 4.2%.
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NewsLuxembourg Fund Partners to launch high-tech fund for CEE region
EUROPE – Luxembourg Fund Partners is set to launch a fund focusing on high-tech real estate in central and eastern Europe (CEE).
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UCITS inflows swell to €49bn in first quarter: EFAMA
EUROPE – Investment poured back into UCITS funds in the first quarter, surging to more than €49bn against just €1bn in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
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NewsHenderson targets German retail with real estate fund
GERMANY – Henderson Global Investors is seeking to tap demand from German institutional investors for exposure to their domestic retail sector.
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BNP Paribas sees Q2 profits drop by 8%
EUROPE – BNP Paribas today announced its second-quarter results, which saw the company’s net profits drop by almost 8% compared with the previous quarter.
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DC schemes increase market share to a third of European pension assets
EUROPE – Defined contribution (DC) schemes have witnessed an almost uninterrupted increase in assets over the last five years and now account for almost a third of all European pension assets, according to Cerulli Associates.
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NewsItalian roundup: Prima-Anima merger, pension reforms
ITALY – Prima and Anima, two of Italy's largest asset managers, have signed of a memorandum of understanding that will lead to an alliance between the two companies.
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NewsRE-Invest Partners unveils forestry fund for UK pension schemes
UK – RE-Invest Partners has teamed up with Consortium IM to launch a series of exempt unit trusts (EUTs) providing access to the RE-Forest Fund SICAR, a global forestry fund.
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NewsEuropean institutional investors growing in confidence
GLOBAL – Institutional investors in Europe grew slightly more confident in June, according to State Street's latest Investor Confidence index.
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NewsInvestment managers could offer more liability 'solutions', says IMA
UK – The chief executive of the Investment Management Association (IMA) has speculated that investment managers might supply more solutions that address specific liability needs.
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Former Amundi duo to launch asset management company with Natixis
EUROPE – Bruno Crastes and Vincent Chailley have teamed up with France-based Natixis Asset Management to launch H2O Asset Management.
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NewsUK tender roundup: Cardiff, Hillingdon
UK – Cardiff County Council has tendered a £25m global real estate fund-of-funds mandate, while London's borough of Hillingdon has appointed three new asset managers for a £180m mandate.
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NewsBlackRock's Q2 assets under management plummet by 6%
GLOBAL – Assets under management at BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, fell by 6% to $3.1trn (€2.4trn) in the second quarter, sending its shares down by nearly 5% today.
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NewsIslington tenders £200m passive equity and fixed income mandate
UK – Islington Council is seeking an equity and fixed income manager for its £531m pension fund.
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NewsJeyes appoints SEI as fiduciary manager for pension funds
UK – Jeyes has appointed SEI as fiduciary manager for both of its pension funds, with combined assets of £24.6m.
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JPMAM launches product aimed at smaller pension schemes
UK – JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has launched a segregated account aimed at making alternative investments more accessible to smaller and medium-sized pension funds.
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NewsLinking UK pensions to CPI could create investment 'mismatch'
UK – Linking private sector pensions to the consumer price index (CPI), rather than the retail price index (RPI), could cause a "mismatch" of investments versus liabilities, Nigel Peaple of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has cautioned.
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NewsSurvey of fund managers sees European economy weaken over next year
EUROPE – Almost half of European fund managers now predict the region's economy will weaken over the next year, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's monthly Fund Manager Survey.
