All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 48

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    PwC to advise government on pensions

    2007-08-01T13:00:00Z

    [14:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The UK government has awarded the contract for the review of civil servants pension delivery.

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    Dorset joins currency trend

    2007-08-01T12:00:00Z

    [13:00 CEST 01-08] UK – The £1.4bn (€95m) Dorset County Council Pension Fund is looking for an active currency manager.

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    Norfolk seeks currency managers

    2007-07-31T16:00:00Z

    [17:00 CEST 31-07] UK – The £1.72bn (€2.54bn) Norfolk County Council Pension Fund is looking to appoint one or more managers for its £100m specialist active currency portfolio.

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    Employer quits Swiss scheme APK over bailout

    2007-07-30T15:30:00Z

    [16:30 CEST 30-07] SWITZERLAND – Aargauische Pensionskasse (APK), a CHF6bn (€3.6bn) pension fund for Swiss civil servants, has lost one of its public employer-backers to another Pensionskasse as the employer in question is unwilling to help finance its bailout.

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    ING spreads wings into Greece and Latin America

    2007-07-30T15:00:00Z

    [16:00 CEST 30-07] NETHERLANDS - Dutch banking group ING has signed a memorandum of understanding with Greece-based Piraeus Bank for a 10-year exclusive distribution partnership in Greece covering life, employee benefits and pension insurances.

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    Waltham Forest completes overhaul

    2007-07-30T14:00:00Z

    [15:00 CEST 30-07] UK – The £485m (€719.6m) London Borough of Waltham Forest pension fund has appointed six new managers.

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    FRR awards three more passive mandates

    2007-07-30T13:30:00Z

    [14:30 CEST 30-07] FRANCE – The €33.4bn Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) appointed the final three managers to its newly-created passive portfolio.

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    IPE Quest: Danish fund seeks debt manager

    2007-07-26T11:00:00Z

    [12:00 CEST 26-07] DENMARK – An unnamed Danish pension fund is seeking a manager for a $70m global emerging markets (GEM) local currency debt mandate, using IPE-Quest.

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    UK appoints new judges’ pension services

    2007-07-25T15:45:00Z

    [16:45 CEST 25-07] UK – The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) will replace its salary and pensions payroll services for the judiciary, members of the European Parliament and senior political and public office holders in the UK.

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    IPE Quest: Dutch fund seeks emerging markets manager

    2007-07-24T10:45:00Z

    [11:45 CEST 24-07] NETHERLANDS – An unnamed Dutch pension fund, aided by consultancy firm Towers Perrin in The Netherlands, is seeking a manager for a $11m (€8m) global emerging markets (GEM) equity mandate, using IPE-Quest.

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    Suffolk signs three firms to handle £255m in equities

    2007-07-23T15:30:00Z

    [16:15 CEST 23-07] UK – Suffolk County Council Pension Fund has awarded three mandates to manage its equity investments, following a change in allocation strategy.

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    LPFA moves property from UTs to mandate

    2007-07-23T15:30:00Z

    [16:30 CEST 23-07] UK - The London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has appointed ING Real Estate to manage a £150m (223m) global property mandate.

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    Flemish Moorslede to create pension fund

    2007-07-23T13:00:00Z

    [14:00 CEST 23-07] BELGIUM – The Flemish municipality Moorslede has tendered a mandate for a new pension fund for its civil servants.

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    Cumbria introduces global equity and alternatives focus

    2007-07-20T15:00:00Z

    [16:00 CEST 20-07] UK - Cumbria County Council is making its first move into investing in alternatives with the appointment of asset manager Blackrock, as well as shift into global equities.

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    Agency seeks environmental corporate bonds

    2007-07-20T14:30:00Z

    [15:30 CEST 20-07] UK - The Environment Agency has handed Royal London Asset Management the contract to manage a £55m (€81.5m) UK corporate bonds mandate, with SRI restrictions on the type of investments selected.

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    West Midlands awards ING £560m property mandate

    2007-07-20T14:00:00Z

    UK - The £7.8bn (€11.6bn) West Midlands Metropolitan Pension Fund has awarded ING Real Estate a £560m advisory mandate to manage its UK direct property portfolio.

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    Construction major signs €425m return portfolio

    2007-07-20T13:00:00Z

    [14:00 CEST 20-07] NETHERLANDS – The €850m pension fund of Dutch construction group VolkerWessels have appointed specialist Swiss asset manager EIM Group to manage a €425m absolute return portfolio, IPE has learnt.

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    IPE Quest: Swiss fund seeks real estate FoF

    2007-07-19T15:45:00Z

    [16:45 CEST 19-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss corporate pension fund is looking a manager to handle a $10m (€7.2m) pan-European real estate fund of funds mandate, using IPE Quest.

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    PensionDanmark allocates equity to Europe

    2007-07-19T13:00:00Z

    [14:00 CEST 19-07] DENMARK - Danish pension fund PensionDanmark has added a new fund management house to its list of external managers through the award of an active European equity mandate.

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    Hampshire stays with Bramdean alternatives

    2007-07-19T11:02:00Z

    [12:02 CEST 19-07] UK – The £2.5bn (€3.7bn) Hampshire County Council Pension Fund has renewed its contract with UK-based multi-manager Bramdean Asset Management in a push for alternatives, IPE has learnt today.