All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 52

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    ATP chooses BoNY for custody

    2007-05-16T09:54:38Z

    [10:54 CEST 16/05] DENMARK – The DKK414bn (€55.6bn) Danish pension scheme ATP has chosen Bank of New York to provide global custody for its assets.

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    Strathclyde seeks property valuer

    2007-05-11T16:06:26Z

    [17:06 CEST 11/05] UK – The £9.6bn (€14.1bn) The Strathclyde pension fund for Glasgow County Council is looking for a new independent property portfolio valuer.

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    Belgian funds seeks global equity managers

    2007-05-11T16:04:14Z

    [17:04 CEST 11/05] BELGIUM – Pensioenfonds UZ Gent VZW, the pension fund for employees of the university hospital in Ghent, is looking for two investment managers for a €58m global equity portfolio.

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    Warwickshire makes foray into alternatives

    2007-05-11T16:02:46Z

    [17:03 CEST 11/05] UK – Warwickshire County Council pension fund has awarded three mandates which allow the £1bn (€1.4bn) fund to invest in the alternatives market.

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    Danish funds in private equity move

    2007-05-11T16:01:31Z

    [17:00 CEST 11/05] DENMARK - Three Danish pension funds are among the first investors in a new private venture fund targeting the IT and biotech sectors.

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    Schroders loses balanced LGPS mandate

    2007-05-08T16:21:02Z

    [17:20 CEST] UK – The £640m (€935m) London Borough of Tower Hamlets Pension Fund has replaced Schroders on a balanced mandate with two specialist managers.

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    DaimlerChrysler plans equities shift

    2007-05-08T10:53:08Z

    [11:53 CEST] GERMANY – The €8.9bn DaimlerChrysler pension scheme is planning to invest €680m in German large cap equities this summer and has hired a consultant to select the appropriate manager.

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    Currency overlay ‘flavour of the month’ at Lincolnshire

    2007-05-04T16:07:30Z

    UK – The £1.1bn (€1.6bn) Lincolnshire County Council Pension Fund is seeking a currency overlay manager for a new £180m mandate.

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    Metal schemes create €58bn pensions provider

    2007-05-03T16:05:36Z

    NETHERLANDS - PME, the €21bn industry-wide pension fund for the mechanical and electrical engineering, has formally chosen MN Services as its fiduciary manager, it announced.

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    Edinburgh re-appoints State Street

    2007-05-03T15:58:11Z

    UK – Edinburgh Council has renewed State Street Global Advisors' contract for a £113m (€180m) Scottish Homes pension fund mandate.

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    Ealing completes manager review

    2007-05-02T15:30:11Z

    UK – The London Borough of Ealing's £557m (€816.7m) pension fund has replaced UBS and Fidelity with three new managers.

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    Essex awards £1bn in mandates

    2007-04-30T15:45:57Z

    UK – The £2.6bn (€3.8bn) Essex County Council Pension Fund has awarded a £1bn currency overlay mandate and a £150m unconstrained equity mandate.

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    Watch out for LDI ‘nostrum’ – King

    2007-04-30T15:42:08Z

    UK - Companies which offer Liability Driven Investment (LDI) solutions should carefully review whether they are making unrealistic representations, warns Max King, fund manager at Investec Asset Management.

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    IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund in EM bond search

    2007-04-26T15:54:32Z

    NETHERLANDS – A Dutch institutional investor is seeking a local emerging markets bond manager for a $100m (€73m) active mandate using IPE-QUEST (QN802).

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    Ciba axes BlackRock

    2007-04-26T15:48:30Z

    UK – The UK pension fund of Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Ciba Speciality Chemicals has axed BlackRock in favour of Insight Investments.

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    AZL nets Grolsch, Gamma and Sappi

    2007-04-25T15:46:01Z

    NETHERLANDS – Commercial pensions manager, AZL has netted three new clients with over 9,500 participants in total, it announced.

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    North Yorkshire chooses Mercer

    2007-04-25T15:37:30Z

    UK – The £1.2bn (€1.8bn) North Yorkshire County Council pension fund has chosen Mercer as investment consultant.

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    IPE-QUEST: High yield and TAA managers

    2007-04-23T16:12:57Z

    EUROPE – A UK pension fund is looking for an active high yield bond manager for a $20m (€14.7m) global developed markets mandate using IPE-QUEST.

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    Norwegian maintenance funds appoints KLP

    2007-04-23T16:05:08Z

    NORWAY – The NOK38m (€4.7m) Renovasjonen IKS, a new fund set up for the merged maintenance teams in Norwegian municipalities Stavanger and neighbouring Sandnes, has appointed KLP as its fund manager.

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    Unilever taps JP Morgan for global equities

    2007-04-23T15:56:13Z

    UK – The €5.6bn (£3.8bn) UK pension fund of household goods giant Unilever has appointed JP Morgan’s asset management arm to run a £440m global equities mandate.