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Dexia says European SRI market reaching maturity
EUROPE - Dexia Asset Management says the continental European market for socially responsible investments is reaching maturity - and is catching up with the UK.
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UK unions call for voting transparency
UK – The umbrella body for unions in the UK, the Trades Union Congress, has called for greater voting transparency.
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Fortis Investments’ operating profit falls 9%
EUROPE – Fortis Investments’ net operating profit fell nine percent in the first quarter – although assets under management rose four percent.
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Firms back European pension directive – Hewitt
EUROPE – Multinational companies in Europe “would welcome” the opportunity to have a single fund to finance their European Union-based pension obligations, according to a new survey by Hewitt Associates.
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Munsters has cheap E1m mortgage with PGGM
NETHERLANDS – Roderick Munsters, chief investment officer of 53 billion-euro Dutch healthcare fund PGGM, has a discounted mortgage loan of almost one million euros with the fund.
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Lancashire awards custody amid wider revamp
UK - The 2.4 billion-pound (3.56 billion-euro) Lancashire County Council Pension Fund says it will appoint ABN Amro Mellon as its custodian.
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ABP plans to allocate 20% to alternatives
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP says its new strategic asset allocation targets an allocation of 20% to alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity, adding that avoiding short-term risk is “not on option”.
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Mellon names director of global institutional sales
GLOBAL – Mellon Financial has named Drew Pace as executive vice president and director of global institutional sales and marketing.
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Railpen names Hitchen as chief executive
UK - The 13.6 billion pound (19.5 billion-euro) Railways Pension Trustee Company, Railpen, has confirmed that Chris Hitchen will take over as chief executive from Peter Murray, who is retiring.
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CalPERS says it beats benchmark by over 2%
US – CalPERS has said it returned 29.6% in the one-year period to the end of March, taking its assets to 165.8 billion dollars and beating its benchmark by more than two percent.
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Institutions move away from risk - reports
UK – Institutional investors have moved away from risk, according to new reports from Merrill Lynch and State Street.
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Denmark’s SP to widen asset management options
DENMARK – The Special Savings Pensions Scheme (SP) to which all Danes contribute one percent of earnings will offer wider options as to how the assets can be managed, as from January 1 2005.
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SG’s asset management arm posts E4.9bn inflow
FRANCE – Société Générale’s asset management arm had 4.9 billion euros in net new money in the first quarter of 2004.
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CalPERS denies hedge fund plan (Update)
(Updates to include CalPERS' denial) US - CalPERS has denied a magazine article saying the fund plans to raise its allocation to hedge funds.
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Iceland's No. 2 fund awards custody to BBH
ICELAND - Iceland's second-largest pension fund, the 133 billion-crown (1.5 billion-euro) Lifeyrissjodur Verzlunarmanna or Pension Fund of Commerce, has awarded custody to Brown Brothers Harriman.
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Sweden’s AP1 raises currency exposure to 20%
SWEDEN - The 139 billion-crown (15.2 billion-euro) Swedish buffer fund Första AP-fonden says it has raised the currency exposure in its strategic benchmark to 20%, from 15% previously.
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Poschadel replaced as CEO at UBS’s GAM
GLOBAL – UBS’s GAM alternative investments unit has named David Solo as its new chief executive, replacing incumbent Burkhard Poschadel.
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US-based Watson Wyatt’s headcount falls 6%
US – Staff numbers at US consulting firm Watson Wyatt & Co. have fallen by 260, or 6.3%, in the past year, according to its latest earnings release.
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BGI names European transition head
GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors has hired Rory Tobin from investment bank J P Morgan as director of transitions, Europe, a new role.
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L’Oreal awards E35.6m to Russell
UK – The L’Oreal (UK) Ltd. Retirement Benefits Plan has awarded Russell a global equity mandate worth more than 24 million pounds (35.6 million euros) - 22% of the total plan assets.
