All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 128
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Features
Survey understates use of outside custodians in UK
The major recent survey by the National Association of Pensions Funds found that only 75% of 600 or so UK private sector schemes responding used an outside custodian. Among public authority schemes only 61% of the 56 schemes used outside custodians.But the NAPF believes these responses understate the true position ...
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Securities lending comes of age for Europe's pension funds
Chase Manhattan’s Global Securities Services in London is about to announce new global Custody Mandates in Europe-one a German pension fund and the other a large European foundation, the mandate of which is worth US$2bn and will be invested globally. Last year Chase took £50bn worth of custody business out ...
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Unilever: was it a matter of style?
How did Gartmore Fund Managers come to lose £1bn worth of Unilever’s pensions business? When the £3.5bn Unilever pension fund announced last month that it was withdrawing its £1bn mandate from Gartmore and appointing new external managers instead, shock waves went round the City of London. According to Watson Wyatt’s ...
