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Slovenia pension manager KAD reports profit
SLOVENIA – The supervisory board of the state-run €1.18bn Pension Fund Management, or Kapitalska Druzba (KAD), has reported a SIT15bn (€62m) net profit result for 2005.
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US custodians report double-digit asset growth
US – Three large US custodian banks – Mellon, Northern Trust and State Street - reported first-quarter assets under custody today.
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ABN Amro’s Fernandes joins Citigroup
UK – Francis Fernandes, the former Lane Clark & Peacock partner who joined ABN Amro two years ago, has now quit to join Citigroup’s pensions advisory group in London.
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ABP data used in analysis of equity trade costs
NETHERLANDS – A paper prepared by staff at the Dutch central bank and civil service pension fund ABP has found that a small number of trades causes most market impact.
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CalSTRS, CalPERS build new manager database
US – US pension fund giants CalSTRS and CalPERS are putting together a database of emergent asset management companies in a bid to gain access to “untapped talent”.
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IPE-QUEST: Canadian firm tenders debt
GLOBAL – A Canada-based investment management firm has made three sub-advisory debt searches via IPE-Quest.
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Union PanAgora executive Bechtel exits
GERMANY – Marc Bechtel, executive manager of quantitative asset management outfit Union PanAgora, has left.
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Philips scheme in Amsterdam real estate buy
REAL ESTATE – The Philips Pension Fund has acquired Amsterdam Symphony, a real estate project in Amsterdam’s main new real estate project called Zuid As (This article originally appeared on www.iperealestate.com).
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Kempen institutional chief Horst leaves
NETHERLANDS – Kempen Capital Management (KCM) institutional relations director Allaart Horst has left.
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ING IM providing ALM, asset allocation to schemes
EUROPE – ING Investment Management is performing asset liability modelling and asset allocations for European pension funds, says chief executive Angelien Kemna.
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Pension funds, managers buy new bond system
UK – Portfolio analytics provider StatPro says institutional investors such as pension funds and asset managers are showing a lot of interest in its new fixed income system.
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European institutions snap up new Finnish IPO
FINLAND – Just over 100 European institutional investors have snapped up the shares in Finnish financial services firm FIM Group’s new initial public offering.
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Barclays scheme puts €281m into emerging markets
UK – The Barclays UK Pension Fund has put £195m (€281m) into an emerging market debt mandate, according to BlueBay Asset Management.
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Dutch, UK chiefs quit ABN Amro Asset Management
EUROPE – Two high-level Netherlands and UK executives, Marc Verberne and Dermot Keegan, have quit ABN Amro Asset Management to join rivals.
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IMF sees bird flu impact on pension regulators
GLOBAL – The International Monetary Fund says pension industry regulators may have to swing into action in the event of a pandemic of avian flu.
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Germany’s BVV eyes real estate, private equity
GERMANY – BVV, a €17.7bn pension fund serving Germany’s financial services industry, plans to raise its exposure to real estate to at most 8% over the long-term and is mulling an initial investment in private equity.
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IVG to offer schemes custom real estate vehicles
REAL ESTATE - Bonn-based IVG Immobilien is to target pension funds with bespoke vehicles invested in non-listed real estate – in addition to its growing portfolio of closed-end core, opportunistic and development funds (This story originally appeared on IPERealEstate.com).
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Italy’s Previcooper seeking asset managers
ITALY – Previcooper, the €73m supplementary second pillar pension for employees of Italy’s co-operative distribution industry, is looking for asset managers for the ‘Safe’ portfolio of its ‘multicomparto’ structure.
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German MPs call for civil service pension fund
GERMANY – The budget committee of Germany’s parliament (Bundestag) has urged the government to create a pension fund for federal civil servants instead of, as now, financing their pensions via tax reserves.
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OECD releases pension investment survey
GLOBAL – The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its latest survey of global pension fund investment regulations.
