All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 60
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F&C hit by Vervoer withdrawal
NETHERLANDS – Dutch industry-wide transport fund Pensioenfonds Vervoer is to complete the withdrawal of its assets from F&C Asset Management following the appointment of Goldman Sachs as fiduciary manager.
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Hampshire tenders advice on alternatives
UK – The £2.5bn (€3.7bn) Hampshire County Council Pension Fund is seeking advice on alternative investments. The tender follows an overhaul of the fund’s management structure from multi-asset to specialist mandates.
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UK’s PPF in “urgent” fund manager tender
UK – The Pension Protection Fund has issued a tender seeking asset managers for a range of asset classes as a “matter of urgency”.
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FRR re-awards transition broking brief
FRANCE – The €29.1bn, Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites, the French Pension Reserve Fund, has re-awarded a transition broker contract to Goldman Sachs International.
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Durham shakes up £1.3bn council pension fund portfolio
UK – The £1.3bn (€1.9bn) Durham County Council pension fund is set for a complete overhaul of the fund’s investments in an attempt to address the £321m fund deficit. The mandates tendered see a stronger emphasis on bond exposure.
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Municipality tenders ‘Silver Fund’ mandate
BELGIUM – The Belgian municipality Wervik is looking to put a mandate of €600,000 in to a so-called ‘Silver Fund’.
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Morgan Stanley loses UK transport dept. mandate
UK – Investment manager Morgan Stanley Quilter (MSQ) has not been reappointed as fund manager of the UK’s General Lighthouse Fund (GLF), it emerged today.
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IPE-QUEST: Scandinavian fund tenders US high yield debt
SCANDINAVIA - A Scandinavian pension fund has tendered an initial $50m (€39.9m) in American high yield debt via IPE-Quest.
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Paymaster outsources €10.5bn pension payments to Citigroup
UK – American financial service provider Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services has struck a deal with UK pensions administrator Paymaster to provide the firm with international payments services.
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TIAA-CREF hands State Street additional €152bn mandate
GLOBAL – The $380bn US educational retirement savings group TIAA-CREF has awarded institutional investment manager State Street an agreement to provide management services for an additional $190bn(E152bn) in assets.
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Hampshire appoints seven new managers, looks into hedge funds
UK – The £2.5bn (€3.7bn) Hampshire County Council Pension Fund has completely overhauled its management structure. In a move from multi-asset to specialist managers it has re-appointed three of the old managers and awarded mandates to seven new managers.
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Dutch painters award €450m to Theodoor Glissen
NETHERLANDS – A&O Services, which runs the €3.2bn Dutch painters pension fund BPF Schilders, has awarded a €450m pan-European equity index mandate to private bank Theodoor Glissen.
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IPE-QUEST: Scandinavian fund tenders high yield
SCANDINAVIA - A Scandinavian pension fund has tendered an initial $50m (€39.9m) in euro-zone high yield debt via IPE-Quest.
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Wiltshire fund tenders following review
UK – The £1bn (€1.48bn) Wiltshire County Council Pension Fund is tendering for pension investment services representing a total of up to £525m in active currency, unconstrained global equity and long-short equity.
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RREEF nabs Coca-Cola UK real estate brief
REAL ESTATE - RREEF will run the real estate element of the Coca-Cola Enterprises Pension Scheme.
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IPE-QUEST: Two new searches on system
GLOBAL – There are two new searches, covering global developed markets currency and commodities, on the IPE-Quest system.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders €50m balanced
NETHERLANDS – A consultant in the Netherlands has tendered a balanced mandate worth around €50m on behalf of a Dutch pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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Leicestershire tenders targeted returns
UK – The £1.9bn (€2.8bn) Leicestershire County Council pension fund is looking for a targeted or absolute return manager to invest 5% of its portfolio.
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Ireland’s NPRF re-awards €6bn passive mandates
IRELAND – The €17.5bn National Pensions Reserve Fund has re-awarded €6bn in two passive equity mandates to the incumbent managers Bank of Ireland Asset Management/State Street Global Advisors and Barclays Global Investors.
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IPE-QUEST: Danish fund tenders Europe large caps
DENMARK – Danske Bank is conducting a search for long-only European large-cap equities on behalf of a Danish pension fund via IPE-Quest.
