Asset Managers – Page 231
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Dutch schemes unfazed by high yield worries
[10:58 CEST 24/05] NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds aren’t worried yet about gloomy predictions on the future of high yield corporate fixed income investments, they have made clear.
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Horeca sacks disappointing F&C
[16:48 CEST 23/05] NETHERLANDS – Horeca, the €2.7bn industry-wide fund for the Dutch hotel and catering sector, has replaced F&C on two mandates because the asset manager’s performance did “not meet expectations”.
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Wednesday people roundup
[16:47 CEST 23/05] GLOBAL – BNP Paribas, SEB, Watson Wyatt, Hewitt, UBS, IXIS, Stenham, Dexia AM, Credit Suisse, Aberdeen AM, SWIP, Arlington, JLT.
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ABN Amro AM expands into Zurich
[12:56 CEST 23/05] SWITZERLAND – The asset management arm of the beleaguered Dutch ABN Amro bank is opening a full-time operation in Zurich, the firm has announced today.
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United Norwest seeks multi-asset returns via Barings
[12:56 CEST 23/05] UK- The United Norwest Co-operatives Employees’ Pension Fund has handed Baring Asset Management a mandate to manage £23m through its Extended Risk Fund.
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Leicestershire chooses hedge funds manager
[11:00 CEST 23/05] UK – The £1.9bn (€2.8bn) Leicestershire County Council pension fund found a manager for a £105m targeted return mandate.
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Institutional push for 130/30 returns
[16:55 CEST 21/05] EUROPE – Institutional managers and investors are jumping further into 130/30 strategies to gain higher investment returns, according to Dutch Blue Sky Group, the manager of the KLM pension fund assets.
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Passive mandates set to grow - Universal
[16:53 CEST 21/05] GERMANY – As pension funds find some active managers are not really outperforming the benchmark they will move to passive mandates, says Bernd Vorbeck, speaker of the board at Universal Investment.
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Aegon and UBS form UK buy-out team
[16:53 CEST 21/05] UK – Swiss banking major UBS is the latest investment bank to weigh into the lucrative bulk annuity market in a new buy-out joint venture with Dutch insurer Aegon.
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Art has no taste on pension fund palettes
[16:51 CEST] EUROPE - Investing in works of art is likely to remain outside the scope of pension funds’ interest for the foreseeable future despite recent attempts to increase awareness of the alternative asset class.
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Bedfordshire awards £125m mandate
[10:55 CEST 17/05] UK – The £1.07bn (€1.56bn) Bedfordshire County Council pension fund has found a manager for an additional passive equities mandate.
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Commerzbank to sell French AM arm
[13:14 CEST 16/05] GERMANY – Commerzbank, the second-largest German bank, intends to sell its French asset management unit CCR.
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Wednesday people roundup
[13:10 CEST 16/05] GLOBAL – Hewitt, Watson Wyatt, UBS, SWIP, Aegon, Barnett Waddingham, F&C, PIC, Nevsky, Welllington, Deutsche Bank.
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Replace SRI with sustainable approach - Watson Wyatt
[16:45 CEST 15/05] UK – Pension fund managers may be able to meet their fiduciary duty and engage with companies on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues if they opt for sustainable investment strategies, suggests Watson Wyatt.
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First ETF to track FTSE All-Share
[13:00 CEST 15/05] UK – London is set to become one of the largest ETF trading places in Europe, according to Lyxor Asset Management.
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Strathclyde seeks property valuer
[17:06 CEST 11/05] UK – The £9.6bn (€14.1bn) The Strathclyde pension fund for Glasgow County Council is looking for a new independent property portfolio valuer.
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Warwickshire makes foray into alternatives
[17:03 CEST 11/05] UK – Warwickshire County Council pension fund has awarded three mandates which allow the £1bn (€1.4bn) fund to invest in the alternatives market.
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DekaBank opens Vienna office
[17:02 CEST 11/05] AUSTRIA – German asset manager DekaBank is opening an office in Vienna targeting pension funds in Austria and Eastern Europe.
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Unions demand pension funds unite on investment
[17:10 CEST] NETHERLANDS - Top-level talks between the pensions sector, insurers and banks are necessary to consolidate the Dutch position on asset management, suggests the largest union FNV.
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NTGA arrival to challenge consultants (amended)
GLOBAL – Asset management houses and consultants are not doing enough to ensure they meet pension funds’ individual investment needs, according to a new head at Northern Trust Global Advisors who intends to take on the firms’ services.
