All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 128
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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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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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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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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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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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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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UBS, Fidelity under scrutiny at Ealing
UK - UBS Global Asset Management and Fidelity International, currently managing the London Borough of Ealing’s £500m pension fund are under scrutiny.
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Hymans facing review at Cornwall
UK - Cornwall County Council has tendered actuarial services for its £980m (€1.4bn) pension fund.
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Northern Trust names quantitative CIO
GLOBAL – Northern Trust Global Investments has named Steven Schoenfeld to the new role of chief investment officer of Global Quantitative Management.
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Kingston hires HSBC for DB admin
UK – Telecoms firm Kingston Communications has appointed HSBC Actuaries and Consultants Ltd. to provide administration services to its two defined pension schemes covering 2,900 members.
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CalPERS names bond, real estate managers
US – California’s $205bn (€160bn) public pension giant CalPERS has named 16 managers for international fixed income, real estate equities and US global equities.
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Clearstream’s custody assets up 8%
GERMANY - Assets under custody at Deutsche Börse Group’s settlement and custody services provider Clearstream have risen 8% to €9.1trn, from €8.4trn in July 2005.
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CAPS pooled update now includes hedge funds
EUROPE - Mellon Analytical Solutions says it will include statistics on pooled fund of hedge funds in its CAPS pooled pension fund survey.
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Dresdner offers schemes new volatility funds
EUROPE – Dresdner is to launch two equity volatility funds aimed at pension funds and insurance companies next month.
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Fortis Investments gets €7.1bn inflow
EUROPE – Fortis Investments, the asset management arm of the Fortis group, had a net inflow of funds under management of €7.1bn in the first half due to good performance in both institutional and retail markets.
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Luxembourg FDC scheme in €4bn tender
LUXEMBOURG – The new fund set up to hold Luxembourg’s excess pension revenues is looking for managers to administer its €4bn in assets, excluding real estate and loans.
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Deutsche suggests FX can save pensions
GLOBAL – Deutsche Bank says currencies can be the saviour for unfunded pension plans.
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BBC scheme taps Hermes for ownership advice
UK – The £7.5bn (€11.1bn) BBC Pension Scheme has joined the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme and Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP as clients of Hermes’ equity ownership service.
