Manager Selection
In-depth reporting on the subject of asset manager selection for our pension fund and asset management readers by IPE’s award-winning journalists - plus, manager selection special reports
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NewsByblos appoints Payden & Rygel for €190m balanced mandate
The €1bn pension fund for the media sector has awarded a globally balanced mandate to invest in bonds, equities and UCITS funds
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NewsFondo Fon.Te looks for managers to invest €1.61bn in sub-funds
The €6bn pension fund for Italy’s commerce, tourism and services sector is seeking to award 18 mandates in total
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NewsGermany’s KZVK appoints Fullgoal to manage Chinese equities mandate
The pension fund allocates 8.52% of its assets to Asia, but targets an allocation of 10-25%
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NewsFondo Byblos cuts equity exposure, eyes private markets
Managers appointed include AXA IM, Groupama, AllianzGI, Payden & Rygel and Eurizon Capital
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NewsIntesa Sanpaolo pension fund awards €700m in tail-risk mandates
The tail-risk mandates are part of the scheme’s broader strategy to weather ‘deeply uncertain’ macroeconomic environment in 2025
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NewsShell pension funds pick GSAM as new fiduciary manager
The decision means that Shell Asset Management Company (SAMCo) will be wound down in due course
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NewsFondo Espero appoints Schroders, Amundi for ‘Crescita’ sub-fund
The €1.5bn Italian pension fund for school employees has also selected Eurizon Capital for a tail risk hedge mandate
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NewsFondo Pensione Pegaso appoints four managers to oversee €600m mandate
The fund has awarded mandates to PIMCO, AXA Investment Managers, Generali Investments, and Amundi
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NewsFondo Gomma Plastica awards €712m to Anima in multi-asset reshuffle
The fund reassigned assets previously managed under multi-asset mandates with AXA IM and Groupama, consolidating them with Anima
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NewsFonchim picks managers for €2.71bn in mandates
Most asset managers accepting mandate renewals agreed to slight fee reductions, says pension fund
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NewsFrance’s FRR appoints duo for €1.4bn fixed income mandates
AXA Investment Managers and Ostrum Asset Management were selected
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NewsSwedish agency reveals specs for this autumn’s €11bn tech funds procurement
FTN says it will invite tenders for global active technology equity funds in late September, early October at the earliest
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NewsPME picks Candriam to manage European equity portfolio
Candriam will manage a concentrated equity portfolio initially worth €1.5bn, which is half of the €57bn fund’s existing allocation to European equities
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NewsPrevip strips Amundi of sub-fund mandate
€3.4bn Italian multi-employer defined contribution pension fund reallocates assets to mandate co-incumbent
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NewsFTN invites tenders for SEK46bn active Swedish, European small-cap funds
Swedish Fund Selection Agency reveals subsequent procurement will be for IT, communication sector funds
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NewsSwedish tender for €4.5bn small-cap mandates
Manager search covers actively managed funds in national framework
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NewsACCESS Pool picks managers for US, European senior secured direct lending mandates
LGPS pool also set to establish an FCA-authorised fund management company
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NewsState Street loses £28bn of The People’s Pension’s assets to Amundi and Invesco
State Street has previously managed all of the master trust’s assets worth £32bn
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NewsCompenswiss fears US retaliation if State Street is stripped of custodian mandate
‘There is a risk that the US could retaliate against Switzerland,’ says Eric Breval, Compenswiss director
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NewsHandelsbanken, Nordea win new mandates for Swedish premium pensions
Swedish FTN reveals winners in award of Nordic equity fund mandates, including two funds new to the platform
