All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 34
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Norwegian municipalities award pension mandates
NORWAY – Three Norwegian municipalities have appointed providers for their state occupational pension schemes following re-tendering exercises.
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Falkirk appoints LGIM for passive mandate
UK – Falkirk Council has awarded Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) a £280m (€299m) passive mandate.
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Glasgow begins bonds search
[16:40 CET 12-12] UK - Officials managing the £9.24bn (€10.3bn) Strathclyde pension fund have begun the search for a bond manager who could eventually look after up to £800m.
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Mercer to help drive Nissan’s pensions strategy
[17:00 CET 10-12] GLOBAL - Mercer, the consultancy firm, has been appointed by car manufacturer Nissan Motors to be its global retirement consultant.
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PPF taps State Street for risk mandate
[17:05 CET 08-12] UK – The £2bn (€2.3bn) Pension Protection Fund (PFF), the UK’s lifeboat scheme for corporate defined benefit arrangements, has tapped State Street Corporation for a risk services mandate.
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NewsCornwall targets passive global equities
[17:15 CET 04-12] UK – Cornwall County Council is seeking a passive global equity manager to run a new portfolio for its £823m (€951m) pension fund.
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Cleaners' scheme appoints Cordares
[15:10 CET 03-12] NETHERLANDS - Pensions provider Cordares has been chosen as the new administrator for the €1.35bn industry-wide pension fund for the cleaning and window cleaning sector.
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North Yorks awards ING global property mandate
[16:55 CET 26-11] UK – North Yorkshire County Council has agreed to appoint ING Real Estate as global property manager for its £1.07bn (€1.26bn) local government pension fund.
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Scandinavian scheme to invest in small cap Japan
[12:00 CET 19-11] SCANDINAVIA – An industry-wide pension fund is looking for a manager for a $30m (€24m) Japanese small-cap equities mandate, using IPE Quest.
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French PERCO fund seeks equity managers
[16:30 CET 18-11] FRANCE – A French corporate pension fund is looking for equity managers for a €35m global equity and a €13m European small cap equity mandate, using IPE quest.
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NewsNestlé fund axes underperforming Mellon, JP Morgan
[16:30 CET 12-11] SWITZERLAND – Robusta, the Irish-listed fund vehicle for food firm Nestlé’s small to medium sized pension investments, has terminated Mellon Global Investments and JP Morgan Asset Management.
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NewsBritish Coal scheme seeking investment head
[16:30 CET 12-11] UK - The £10.9bn (€13.2bn) British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme is looking for a new chairman of its investment sub-committee to replace former Watson Wyatt partner Nick Watts, who has left “by mutual consent”.
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Pension funds knock BGI off the top
[17:10 CET 28-10] NETHERLANDS – A study of Dutch pension funds has unsurprisingly revealed APG, PPGM and Mn Services have removed Barclays Global Investors as the largest asset manager to Dutch pension funds, but evidence suggests foreign players are increasing their presence in the fiduciary market.
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Essex tenders 10% to global equity
[16:45 CET 28-10] UK – Essex County Council is searching for an asset manager to look after up to £300m (€375m) of its £3.1bn in pension fund assets via a global equity mandate.
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Norfolk and Staffs start manager search
[16:30 CEST 24-10] UK – Staffordshire and Norfolk County Councils have initiated searches for equity and bond managers for their local government pension schemes (LGPS).
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AP1 awards Australian firm €52m Asian mandate
[16:15 CEST 21-10] SWEDEN - Första AP-fonden (AP1), the First Swedish National Pension Fund, has awarded an AU$100m (€51.9m) Asian equities mandate to the Australian boutique investment firm Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM).
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Hymans to advise lighthouse authorities
[16:30 CEST 20-10] UK – The General Lighthouse Authorities (GLAs) for the United Kingdom and Ireland have appointed Hymans Robertson to provide advice on a range of pension fund issues.
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NewsSomerset replaces F&C as fixed income manager
[15:30 CEST 29-09] UK – Somerset County Council has appointed Standard Life Investments to officially manage a £200m fixed income mandate on behalf of the pension fund, having sacked F&C from the role.
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Merchant Navy treads fiduciary path (updated)
[17:00 CEST 26-09] UK – Executives of the UK’s Merchant Navy Officers’ Pension Funds have asked existing investment consultant Watson Wyatt to alter its duties and effectively deliver fiduciary management to the pension plans.
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NewsNorthants rehires Mercer in a new role
[16:40 CEST 26-09] UK – Northamptonshire County Council has hired Mercer an investment consultant to support its running of the pension fund, just weeks after appointing a new actuary to replace them.
