All IPE articles in August 2006 (Online) – Page 6
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AP2 funds GSAM, First Quadrant GTAA mandates
SWEDEN – The Second Swedish National Pension Fund/AP2 says it has funded Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandates awarded to Goldman Sachs Asset Management and First Quadrant two years ago.
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German institutions ‘still hedge fund sceptics’
GERMANY – German institutional investors are still very reluctant to put money into hedge funds, despite the 2004 liberalisation of the market, says FERI Institutional Advisors.
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Hermes’ own pension fund deficit widens
UK - The deficit at Hermes Pension Management’s own £50m in-house scheme widened to £16.6m (€24.4m) last year from £14.7m, company accounts show.
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Pension funds offered multi-manager FX product
UK – Pension funds are being offered a new multi-manager foreign exchange product as a way to get exposure to the asset class.
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Ex-Schroders hedge CIO Parkin re-surfaces
UK - John Parkin, formerly chief investment officer of the fund of hedge fund team at Schroders, has re-surfaced at hedge fund group Aspect Capital.
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IPE-QUEST: UK insurer tenders hedge funds
UK – A UK-based insurance company has tendered up to $100m (€77.7m) in long-short equity market neutral hedge funds via IPE-Quest.
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SWIP names Davidson global bond chief
UK – Rod Davidson has been appointed as Scottish Widows Investment Partnership’s new global head of fixed income, the company said today.
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Changes at Swiss Life AM in the Netherlands
NETHERLANDS – Pension insurer Swiss Life’s asset management arm has promoted Karel Altena to head Dutch investments, director Rob Delfos announced.
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Demand for Riester-Rente surges
GERMANY – Demand for the ‘Riester-Rente’, a government-subsidised private pension launched in 2002, surged again in the second quarter, pushing the total number of contracts to almost 7m, the government has reported.
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Towers Perrin’s Nieuwland leaves for Master Foods
NETHERLANDS – Fred Nieuwland, senior consultant at the Dutch arm of consultancy firm Towers Perrin, has left the company.
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Pension funds give boost to waste and water investments
UK – Several major UK pension schemes holding shares in Impax, the only pure play environmental investment vehicle in the FTSE All Share index, haveinvested in two of the company’s funds bringing the total of funds under its management up to over £400m(€578m).
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Morley nabs Insight’s Waygood for SRI
UK – Asset management firm Morley Fund Management said today that Steve Waygood has been appointed to the newly created post of head of socially responsible investment (SRI) engagement.
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Renfrewshire tenders employee group life
UK – Renfrewshire Council is tendering for the provision of an employee group life scheme, the council has announced.
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ABP’s Puay Ju joins Aberdeen for Asian real estate
EUROPE – Kang Puay Ju, senior portfolio manager at Dutch pension fund ABP, will join Aberdeen Asset Management’s real estate arm’s new Asian property fund, the asset manager announced today.
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BOE scheme takes 6.7% of Henderson property fund
REAL ESTATE - The Bank of England’s pension fund has acquired almost 6.7% of Henderson Global Property Investors, the fund manager.
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BNP Paribas names global relationship manager
GLOBAL – BNP Paribas has appointed Scott Dickinson as global relationship manager in London covering the institutional investor and financial intermediaries client segment, focusing on alternative assets.
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Citigroup sets up pension solutions team
EUROPE - Citigroup has set up a European insurance and pensions structured solutions group in London under Wiltrud Heiss.
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Market-hit Swiss pension funds return -0.3%
SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension fund returns fell to –0.3% in the first half of this year, hit by severe losses in the global equity and bond markets, according to the ASIP industry association.
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German state pension scheme revenues rise
GERMANY – Revenues for Germany’s state pension scheme rose sharply in the first half of 2006, relieving financial pressure on the scheme and prompting some experts to question the government’s plan to increase the statutory pension contribution on January 1 2007.
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Aon buys Swedish pensions firm
SWEDEN - Aon Consulting has bought Swedish pension management firm Förmånsoptimering for an undisclosed sum.
