Asset Managers – Page 230

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    Goldman taps into buyout boom

    2007-07-16T14:30:00Z

    [15:30 CEST 16-07] UK – American investment bank Goldman Sachs has launched a new insurance company with the prospect of tapping into the growing UK buyout market.

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    IPE-QUEST: $50m currency alpha mandate

    2007-07-13T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 13-07] UK – A UK-based institutional investor is looking for a manager for a $50m (€36.3m) active global currency alpha mandate using IPE-Quest.

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    Wiltshire appoints three managers

    2007-07-13T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 13-07] UK – The £1.1bn (€1.7bn) Wiltshire County Council Pension Fund has awarded three mandates for unconstrained equity, long-short equity and active currency.

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    Morley taps Dromer for global chief

    2007-07-13T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 13-07] UK – Insurance giant Aviva has appointed HSBC’s Alain Dromer to replace the late Chris Phillips as chief executive of Morley Fund Management.

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    IPE-QUEST: $30m heading for SRI

    2007-07-12T16:00:00Z

    [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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    Pensions Board urges trustees to focus on risk

    2007-07-12T16:00:00Z

    [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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    Hermes chooses tracking partner

    2007-07-12T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 12-07] UK – Legal & General Investment Management will provide index tracking services to Hermes Pension Management, it was announced today.

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    Hymans steps up quantitative approach

    2007-07-11T15:48:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-11T15:46:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-11T15:45:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-10T16:17:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-09T15:00:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-09T13:00:00Z

    [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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    Another Dutch giant invests in trees

    2007-07-06T15:30:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – The €85bn healthcare workers' pension fund PGGM has awarded a $200m (€150m) 15-year forestry mandate.

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    Glasgow fund monitors underperforming managers

    2007-07-06T15:30:00Z

    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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    FRR seeks managers for a French equity portfolio

    2007-07-05T15:31:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-05T15:17:00Z

    [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

    2007-07-05T15:15:00Z

    [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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    Pensions investors behind 51% of Spezialfonds volume

    2007-07-04T15:30:00Z

    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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    DC managers should 'hang in there' - Cerulli

    2007-07-04T15:30:00Z

    EUROPE – Foreign managers should commit themselves to European defined contribution schemes regardless of likely initial losses, according to research and consulting firm Cerulli.