All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 103
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Priamo looks for administration provider
ITALY– Priamo, the €30m industry wide pension fund for public transport workers in Italy, is looking for an administration and accounting services provider ahead of issuing a full RFP for investment managers for its assets.
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Italian fund looks for administration provider
ITALY – The €25m Italian railways workers’ pension fund, Eurofer, is looking to appoint an administration and accounting services provider ahead of issuing a full RFP for the investment management of its assets.
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Three institutions launch RFPs worth a total $190m
GLOBAL- A continental European insurance company is looking, via the electronic manager search system IPE-Quest.com, for a manager to oversee a $100m corporate Eurodollar debt mandate.
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AP6 and Danske launch Sek2bn life sciences fund
SWEDEN- Sweden’s sixth AP fund and Danske Bank are launching a new SEK2bn (e220m) life sciences fund aimed at the Nordic Region. Scandinavian Life Science Venture (SLSV), as the fund will be known, will bring together AP 6 and Danske’s existing life science projects.
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Shropshire council dumps Schroders for F&C
UK- Shropshire County Council’s £630m pension fund has dropped Schroder Investment Management and appointed F&C Management to run a £30m (e47m) global emerging markets equity mandate.
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Houston police pick Ashmore for emerging markets
US/UK- Houston’s Police Officer pension scheme has appointed the specialist investment manager Ashmore IM to run a $60m (e63m) emerging market debt mandate.
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UIA hands insurance assets to Morley in SRI drive
UK- Specialist insurer UIA has appointed Morley Fund Management to run its entire general insurance and life funds of £90m on a socially responsible basis.
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New Star hires HSBC's head of alternatives
UK- New Star has hired HSBC’s head of alternative investments Charles Tritton to run its hedge fund business which currently has $700m under management.
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Roche picks Watson Wyatt as full service provider
UK – The €620m UK pension fund of Swiss pharmaceuticals group, Roche, has appointed Watson Wyatt as full pension service provider. The deal includes actuarial, administration, investment consulting and communications services. Watson Wyatt take over from previous service providers, Bacon & Woodrow.
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Fidelity replaces Jupiter at Nortel scheme
UK – The £1.4bn (€2.2bn) Nortel Networks UK pension fund has appointed Fidelity Investments to run a specialist £137m UK equity portfolio. Fidelity replaces Jupiter Asset Management which was dropped by the pension fund last month. The mandate will be benchmarked against the FTSE All Share index.
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Prudential to manage e700m corporate bonds for AP3
SWEDEN- Sweden’s AP3 fund has appointed the US-based investment manager Prudential to run an active Sek6.4bn (e700m) corporate bond mandate.
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CSAM picks Citi for unit trust and ICVC custody
UK – Credit Suisse Asset Management Funds (UK), part of the Credit Suisse Asset Management group (CSAM), has appointed Citibank Global Securities Services as trustee and custodian for an additional £1.2bn (€1.9bn) of its unit trust and ICVC – investment company with variable capital - assets.
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Chiswell announces double pension fund win
UK – London-based investment management firm Chiswell Associates has won two new pension fund mandates, worth £35m (€54.5m), from the staff pension scheme of building society Leeds and Holbeck and the Presbyterian Church of Wales pension scheme.
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AP7 completes search for hedge fund managers
SWEDEN- Sweden’s AP7 default fund has ended its twelve month search for hedge fund managers with the appointment of New York-based K2 and Arpad Busson’s Geneva-based EIM to run two new Sek500m (e55m) fund of funds portfolios.
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Norway issues vast $5.5bn equity RFPs
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), overseer of the $75bn (E81bn) Norwegian petroleum fund, has announced a $5.5bn equities RFP with the initial tender process being run through the IPE-Quest electronic manager selection system. NBIM is looking to appoint new external active mandates in five different regions: Europe, UK, Japan, Australia ...
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SwissAir names five sub-fund managers for e600m
SwissAir has announced the names of managers appointed to run e600m in five sub-funds belonging to the recently restructured pension scheme. The fund has appointed managers to five mandates, each valued at approximately e120m. Wellington has been appointed to run both an active US equities and an active European equities ...
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Standard Life sales up 42%
UK- Standard Life Investments has defied flat market conditions and issued encouraging first half results. The subsidiary of the life insurer registered sales of £1.7bn in the six months to May, up 42% on the same period last year.
