All articles by Cecilia Valente – Page 7
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IPE-QUEST: Danish fund tenders €75m
DENMARK – A Danish pension fund has started an asset manager search for two mandates worth a total €75m via IPE-Quest.
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Sweden’s AP funds to meet government
SWEDEN – The six Swedish state pension buffer funds are to meet local government and financial markets minister Sven-Erik Österberg to discuss a government report on their structure.
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Joined-up thinking
Robin Ellison, the incoming chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), may not be the first UK pension person to lose their bearings in Brussels. But he’s almost certainly the only one to actually get completely lost in the Belgian countryside. It occurred when he was en route ...
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Agricole buys Intesa fund arm for €850m
ITALY – Italian banking group Banca Intesa and Crédit Agricole have agreed to a 12-year deal that sees their asset management arms merging into an entity which would be second in the Italian market.
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Credit Agricole AM London chief leaves
UK – Ian McEvatt, chief executive of the London branch of Crédit Agricole Asset Management is to leave and be replaced by investment chief Bruno Crastes.
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Morley to manage €145.3m for Kelda
UK - Morley Fund Management says it has been awarded a £50m (€72.6m) fixed income mandate and a £50m indirect property mandate by Kelda Group Pension Plan.
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New warning over schemes’ equity concentration
UK - UK pension funds’ tendency to expose themselves to a handful of FTSE companies could end with the collapse of some of the big names, says Hymans Robertson principal George Henshilwood.
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Alfred Berg’s Finland MD Koskimies quits
FINLAND – Mikko Koskimies, managing director at ABN Amro’s Alfred Berg Asset Management arm in Finland, has quit with his deputy to join insurance group Pohjola.
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German MPs under pensions scrutiny
GERMANY – Federal MPs should start paying for their own pensions immediately after the next election, says the Confederation of Taxpayers, or BdSt.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders €150m
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch pension fund has tendered three equity mandates totalling up to €150m via IPE-Quest.
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Greek bank union on warpath over pensions
GREECE - The Federation of Bank Employee Associations (OTOE) said it is on the warpath with government and employers over the sector’s unfunded pension liabilities.
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Watson Wyatt backs trustee allocation decisions
UK - Trustees make “extremely high quality” asset allocation decisions, which can get spoiled during the implementation stage, says a senior investment consultant at Watson Wyatt.
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McAlpine taps SEI for equities
UK –Alfred McAlpine Pension Trustees has awarded SEI Investments a £45.6m (€66.3m) global developed markets equity mandate.
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PGGM raises allocation to commodities
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the €60bn Dutch health care scheme, says it has increased its allocation to commodities due to a new asset mix.
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Commodities need governance - consultant
UK - Lack of time and resources are among the factors behind the lack of development in commodities in the UK, according to a Watson Wyatt consultant, Alasdair Macdonald.
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Consultants ‘lack house view on commodities’
UK - Consultants need to reach a “house view” on commodities says Barclays Global Investors’ head of commodities strategy.
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EBRD says close to agreement on pensions
EUROPE – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says it is close to an agreement with staff over changes to its retirement structure.