Asset Managers – Page 228
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Pensions Board urges trustees to focus on risk
[17:00 CEST 12-07] IRELAND – Trustees should be constantly reviewing the asset allocation in their pension funds' investment portfolios to mitigate risk, the Irish Pensions Board has suggested.
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IPE-QUEST: $30m heading for SRI
[17:00 CEST 12-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund is seeking to appoint a manager for a $30m SRI (€21.8m) mandate, using IPE-Quest.
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Hymans steps up quantitative approach
[16:45 CEST 11-07] UK – The consultant Hymans Robertson will offer its clients a quantitatively-based manager research database to cope with the growing number of asset management products.
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IPE-QUEST: CHF3bn currency overlay mandate
[16:45 CEST 11-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss institutional investor is looking for one or more managers for a CHF3bn (€1.8bn) passive currency overlay mandate.
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Rethink global equities, says Pioneer
[16:45 CEST 11-07] GLOBAL - Asset managers must rethink the way they present global equity products, according to Pioneer Investments’ global head of institutional business, Paul Price: “The age of the product push is over,” he said today.
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IPE-QUEST: $125m US equity mandate
[17:16 CEST 10-07] EUROPE – A European multi-manager is using IPE-Quest to appoint a manager for a $125m (€91.7m) all cap and large cap US and Canada equity mandate.
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Van den Brink follows fiduciary trail to Mn
[16:00 CEST 09-07] NETHERLANDS – Roland van den Brink, investment director at the the €21bn industry-wide pension fund for the mechanical and electrical engineering PME, has joined Mn Services’ board of management.
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IPE-QUEST: €400m UK equities mandate
[14:00 CEST 09-07] NETHERLANDS – A Dutch pension fund is looking for two or three UK equities managers via IPE-Quest.
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Glasgow fund monitors underperforming managers
UK - The £9.73bn (€14.4bn) Strathclyde Pension Fund has put Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford and Isle of Man’s Capital International under watch due to underperformance.
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Another Dutch giant invests in trees
NETHERLANDS – The €85bn healthcare workers' pension fund PGGM has awarded a $200m (€150m) 15-year forestry mandate.
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FRR seeks managers for a French equity portfolio
[15:32 CEST 05-07] FRANCE – The €32bn French reserve fund (FRR) is looking for managers for a new French equity portfolio worth in excess of €500m.
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Powys drops overseas bonds
[16:19 CEST 05-07] UK - Western Asset Management and Barclays Global Investors (BGI) have lost out in a major reshuffle at the £295m (€436m) Powys County Council Pension Fund that has seen overseas bonds culled from the portfolio.
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IPE-QUEST: $20m Swiss bond mandate
[16:20 CEST 05-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund is looking for an active convertible bonds manager through IPE-Quest (QN818).
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DC managers should 'hang in there' - Cerulli
EUROPE – Foreign managers should commit themselves to European defined contribution schemes regardless of likely initial losses, according to research and consulting firm Cerulli.
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Pensions investors behind 51% of Spezialfonds volume
GERMANY – Assets from German pension schemes and insurers account for half of the €699bn in institutional fund (Spezialfonds) volume, according to a study by German asset management association BVI.
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NXP pensions head for PME
[17:12 CEST 03-07] NETHERLANDS - Chip manufacturer NXP is in negotiations to place its Dutch workers' pensions with the industry-wide pension fund for the Metalektro (PME).
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AP3 appoints 12 GTAA managers
[17:10 CEST 03-07] SWEDEN - The SEK212.2bn (€22.9bn) third Swedish buffer fund, AP3 has appointed 12 managers within global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) as it seeks to diversify its active risk taking.
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PKA mandates hail 'responsible' focus
[17:08 CEST 03-07] DENMARK - Danish occupational pension funds administrator Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) has hired fund manager Hermes to carry out share-ownership responsibilities for its €3.7bn of non-domestic equity investments, the two parties said.
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Bolton hits out at market activists
[17:07 CEST 03-07] EUROPE - Fidelity Investments has accused some activist shareholders of buying small holdings in companies merely to make short-term gains on the stock market.
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IPE-QUEST: $100m REIT mandate
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch institutional investor is looking for a real estate manager via IPE-Quest.
