All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 125
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Big European funds: ‘We want skilled managers’
EUROPE – Some of Europe’s largest pension funds have acknowledged that the search for alpha – market outperformance - is a search for skills.
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Gwynedd scheme to put 5% into private equity
UK – The £741m (€1.1bn) Gwynedd council pension fund is looking to invest in private equity via fund of fund managers to help address its £129m deficit.
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Schroders nabs ex-BIS asset management head
UK – Guy Henriques has been appointed as head of official institutions at Schroders. He joins from the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) where he had been head of asset management.
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UK MPs’ scheme to invest in hedge funds
UK – The around £280m (€414m) Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund of the House of Commons is looking to award an £8m mandate to a fund of hedge fund manager.
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Islington refutes allegations of bad investment
UK – The £635.6m (€936m) Borough of Islington pension fund has denied union claims that its £131m deficit was caused by bad investment decisions.
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Dutch painters tap MLIM for swaps
NETHERLANDS – A&O Services, which runs the €3.2bn Dutch painters pension fund BPF Schilders, has chosen Merrill Lynch Investment Managers to implement a €1.4bn swap and swaptions overlay programme.
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Report critical of UN fund’s real estate risk
GLOBAL – The United Nations’ internal watchdog has criticised the body’s $33bn pension fund for having a high risk exposure in its real estate portfolio.
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Hermes in clear; Clements runs hedge fund
GLOBAL - It’s emerged that Robert Clements, the former Hermes manager at the centre of the firm’s now resolved stock manipulation allegations in Korea, is now running an Israel-based hedge fund.
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Former ABP chief Frijns to chair Kempen
NETHERLANDS - Merchant bank Kempen & Co. has appointed Jean Frijns, the former head of investments at ABP, as chairman of the supervisory board.
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Dow Jones calls for style-pure hedge indices
GLOBAL – Institutional investors will be looking for stronger due diligence capabilities as more money is expected to flow into hedge funds, financial experts at a hedge fund industry panel hosted by Dow Jones Indexes agreed.
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Capita wins new N. Ireland water scheme admin
UK – Capita Hartshead won a £250,000 (€371,000) contract by the Northern Ireland Water Service for the administration of a new pension scheme to be set up for next year.
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BIS to recruit benefits manager
SWITZERLAND – The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), is looking for a new Compensation and Benefits Manager who will also have to “liaise with the Bank's actuaries for pension system evaluations and changes”, according to the job description.
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Big Swiss funds closer to DC switch
SWITZERLAND – Two major Swiss pension funds, the Publica fund for federal workers and the SBB rail scheme, are now closer to switching to defined contribution.
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Belgium set to tighten pension regulations
BELGIUM – The Belgian financial regulator says forthcoming regulations will provide tighter controls over pension funds.
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KEVA, AlpInvest in Polish private equity move
POLAND – Finland’s KEVA and the Dutch pension fund-owned AlpInvest are among the institutional backers of a new Polish private equity fund.
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AP7 hit by Amaranth hedge fund collapse
SWEDEN – Sweden’s SEK80bn (€8.7bn) Sjunde AP-fonden AP7 buffer fund is among investors who’ve lost out in the implosion of natural gas trading hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC.
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EU’s Borrell considering MEPs’ fund director
LUXEMBURG – A decision about the appointment of Law Debenture pension trustee head Eddie Thomas as a specialist director at the MEPs’ pension fund is currently with the President of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell.
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Swiss voters to decide on SNB pension cash
SWITZERLAND – Swiss voters will on Sunday decide whether over CHF1bn of the Swiss National Bank’s annual profits will be diverted to the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance Fund (AHV/AVS). According to opinion polls, those opposed to the move have substantially gained on supporters of the initiative.
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USS in central Europe real estate move
EUROPE – The £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme, the pension fund for university staff, has made a move to increase it central European real estate holdings.
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Lehman unveils LDI indices
GLOBAL – Global investment bank Lehman Brothers has announced the launch of two new swap indices which could help facilitate liability driven investing.
