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SSgA wins e1.5bn mandate from Netherlands' PMI
NETHERLANDS/US – The Dutch metal and electronic industries’ pension fund, PMI-SVM has appointed State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) to manage two equity mandates with a combined value of €1.5bn.
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European pension fund in €58m manager search
EUROPE - A European corporate pension fund is currently running a preliminary search for managers for a large-cap European equities portfolio, with a value in excess of US$50m (€58m), via the IPE-Quest system
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SEI picks up £40m global mandate from Millennium
UK- The UK arm of Millennium Chemicals has appointed multi manager SEI Investments to run a £40m global equities portfolio. The mandate represents 70% of the total pension fund and is the sixth appointment for SEI’s UK outlet since it opened in May 2000.
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Radical overhaul at AHV means March and June RFPs
SWITZERLAND- Switzerland’s first pillar federal pension scheme Ausgleichsfonds der AHV has started a radical overhaul to its asset allocation following new legislation allowing it to invest in global equities for the first time.
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Standard Life takes £220m mandate from Aberdeen
UK- Standard Life Investments has replaced Aberdeen Property AM as managers of the £2.2bn South Yorkshire pension fund’s £220m segregated property portfolio. The portfolio comprises a mix of retail, office and industrial premises.
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Italian sector fund tenders to close at month end
ITALY – The graphics, paperworks and publishing industry sector-wide pension fund, Fondo Pensione Byblos, has put out tenders for a depository bank and administration and accounting manager. The offer will run until the end of this month and a decision is expected in March. The fund hopes to become fully ...
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Aberdeen City picks FIS & SSgA for passive SRI
UK- Aberdeen City Council pension fund is applying Friend’s Ivory & Sime’s responsible engagement overlay (reo) programme to its £300m passive portfolio run by State Street Global Advisors.
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Lloyd's agencies pick CAAM for e170m fixed income
UK – The London office of Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM), the investment management arm of French financial services group, Crédit Agricole, has won two new mandates to run the fixed income portfolios of B.F. Caudle Agencies and Ensign Managing Agency, both managing agencies for Lloyd’s of London syndicates.
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Tayside opts for Northern Trust to provide custody
UK- Dundee city council’s £930m (e1.5bn) Tayside Superannuation Fund has selected Northern Trust from a shortlist of three candidates to provide custody and other securities services including securities lending, cash management, web-based reporting and other related securities services.
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Swiss Fund seeks additional managers for €2.4bn
SWITZERLAND – The SFr10bn (€6.8bn) Swiss Post Office pension fund is to begin searching for additional asset managers in March, having already selected UBS Asset Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Pictet to run various portfolios for the recently-created fund.
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Norwich Union picks Mellon to run fund supermarket
UK – Mellon Trust, the UK subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corporation, has won the mandate to provide administration services to the new fund supermarket ISA of Norwich Union’s online finance service, norwichunion.com.
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Italian rail fund to begin manager search in March
ITALY – The Italian State Railways pension fund, Fondo Pensione Eurofer, will begin looking for managers for its €25m assets in March once it has received the regulatory approval from Covip, the Italian pension fund supervisory body.
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Reid replaces Wheelan as IPE-Newsline Editor
UK – Dickon Reid becomes Editor of IPE-Newsline.com from Monday January 7 following the departure of Newsline Editor, Hugh Wheelan, to Amnesty International....
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AP7 alternative manager search enters final stage
SWEDEN- The e2.3bn AP7 default fund’s search for private equity and hedge fund of fund investment managers enters the final stage next week when it begins interviewing a final shortlist of ten potential candidates.
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Aon wins Det Norske Veritas UK admin mandate
UK – Aon Consulting has won the mandate to provide actuarial advice, pensions consultancy and administration to the UK defined benefit pension (DB) scheme of Det Norske Veritas (DNV) UK, the UK branch of the Norwegian independent property safeguarding and risk management foundation....
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A.G. Bisset wins Firemen's overlay mandate
US/EUROPE – US currency overlay specialist A.G. Bisset & Company, has won a mandate to actively manage the currency exposure of $85m in EAFE invested equity portfolios for the $1.3bn Firemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago....
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Petroleum fund appoints nine managers
The NOK547bn (e68bn) Norwegian Government Petroleum Fund (Petroleumsfondet) has appointed a raft of nine new managers to small and mid cap and sector driven equity mandates. Agreements have been reached with four external managers to run portfolios of small and medium-sized companies with the mandate winners as follows. Deutsche Asset ...
