All articles by Cecilia Valente – Page 15
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West Midlands tenders €581m in equities
UK - The £4.7bn (€6.83bn) West Midlands Metropolitan Authorities scheme is tendering four equity mandates, worth a total of at least £400m (€581.7m).
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IPE-QUEST: German fund tenders emerging markets
GERMANY – A pension fund based in Germany has tendered a global emerging markets equity brief worth up to $100m (€76.2m) via IPE-Quest.
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Denmark’s PKA awards €76.1m private equity brief
DENMARK - The DKK93bn (€12.5bn) Pensionskassernes Administration has awarded Goldman Sachs Asset Management a $100m private equity brief and said it is only half way to its target allocation to the asset class.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss foundation tenders €76.1m
SWITZERLAND – A Swiss foundation has tendered a global emerging markets brief worth up to $100m (€76.1m) through IPE-Quest.
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Watson Wyatt private equity partner leaves
UK – Stephan Breban, a Watson Wyatt senior consultant and partner in charge of the private equity management research team, is to leave the firm at the end of March to set up his own business called City Capital Partners.
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Netherlands may issue 30-year bonds
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch State Treasury Agency is to poll “reasonably big” investors in Europe, including institutions, to gauge their reaction to a new 30-year bond.
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UK protection fund aims to set risk levy quickly
UK – The new Pension Protection Fund will use a risk-based levy “as quickly as possible and as risk-based as possible” says PPF chairman Lawrence Churchill.
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Italian welfare minister Maroni in pension talks
ITALY – Welfare minister Roberto Maroni was due to meet today with Italy’s main trade unions and employers association Confindustria to discuss the Tfr, one of the pivotal innovations brought by the pension reform.
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Thomas Murray unveils e-RFP tool
UK – Securities services information firm Thomas Murray has launched a tool to introduce additional control and transparency to the hedge funds industry.
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Watson Wyatt confident in Credit Lyonnais case
UK – Consulting firm Watson Wyatt is confident it will win a negligent advice claim brought against it by Credit Lyonnais that was first filed almost two years ago.
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Belgian construction fund officer joins regulator
BELGIUM - Ann Devos, investment officer for the €450m social fund for the construction sector, FSE, is to leave the fund and join the Belgian pension regulator.
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Swiss rail fund seeks aid over €1.49bn deficit
SWITZERLAND – The €8.7bn Swiss Railway pension fund, Pensionskasse SBB, has written to the government to ask for help after posting a CHF2.3bn (€1.49bn) deficit in spite of emergency measures in place for two years.
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Greece looks to Ireland for reform model
The Greek government may turn to Ireland for “inspiration” on pension changes, a finance and economy ministry spokeswoman has said. The government is watching the changes launched in the EU member states with similar life expectancy problems for inspiration, the spokeswoman said. For the time being changes to the Greek ...
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Separate alpha from beta
Many of the pension and asset management industry’s leading figures gathered at the Institutional Fund Management conference in Geneva in February to discuss key topics, including how to pursue alpha, the structure of trustee boards, and the best way to ‘work’ your assets. Mark Anson, chief investment officer for the ...
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UBS could lose €915m AP1 emerging market assets
SWEDEN – AP1 may pull up to SEK8.3bn (€915m) in emerging market assets from a UBS structured product and award them to new managers.
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JP Morgan withdraws from French reserve fund
FRANCE - JP Morgan Investment Management, one of the fund managers lined up by the €19.2bn French reserve fund for stand-by mandates, has withdrawn, giving up the chance to run euro-zone large-cap and US mid-cap equities.
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Experts doubt Lyonnais case against Watson Wyatt
UK – Legal experts have expressed doubts that Credit Lyonnais’ legal action against Watson Wyatt will succeed – but suggest that if it did it could “open the floodgates”.
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Non-domestics pile into French 50-year bond
FRANCE – Non French investors accounted for 88% of those who bought France’s new 50-year bond, demand for which exceeded the French debt agency’s forecast three-fold.
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UK’s House of Lords tenders administration brief
UK - The House of Lords Staff Pension Scheme, the scheme for Parliament’s upper chamber, has put out its first administration tender.
