All Mandates - Investors articles – Page 62
-
News
BankPension awards European equity mandate
DENMARK – The DKR11.4bn (€1.52bn) BankPension, an industry-wide pension fund for employees in the finance sector, will award a Los Angeles-based fund manager with a $10m European equity portfolio.
-
News
Somerset awards currency brief to Record
UK – The £960m (€1.4bn) Somerset County Council Pension Fund has awarded Record Currency Management a currency hedging mandate.
-
News
MEAG nabs €100m Protektor mandate
GERMANY – Protektor, the administrator of a new insolvency fund for life insurers and Pensionskassen, has awarded German asset manager MEAG with a €100m mandate for undisclosed investment services.
-
News
Hoogovens awards €5bn custody mandate
NETHERLANDS – The €5.1bn Stichting Pensioenfonds Hoogovens, the pension fund of steelmaker Corus Netherlands, has named ABN Amro Mellon Global Securities Services as its new global custodian.
-
News
Flemish Care Fund seeks ethical manager (Dutch)
BELGIUM – The Flemish Care Fund/Vlaams Zorgfonds is looking for an asset manager for the investment of an ethical stock portfolio.
-
News
Institutional searches picking up – BlackRock
GLOBAL – BlackRock, set to announce a new branding following its merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Management, says institutional search activity is picking up again.
-
News
SWIP wins rare AMF Pension mandate
SWEDEN – The SEK245bn (€26bn) Swedish fund AMF Pension has awarded a European small-cap mandate to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership worth approximately SEK150m.
-
News
Grafische staff transfer to KAS
NETHERLANDS – Grafische Bedrijfsfondsen (GBF), the umbrella organisation for the Dutch graphics industry’s €10bn pension funds, is to outsource its back office investment activities to KAS Bank.
-
News
Hewitt under review at Cork university scheme
CORK – Consultants Hewitt Associates is facing a review at the €191m University College Cork Statutory Pension Scheme, based in south of Ireland.
-
News
Three Norwegian councils tender for pension services
NORWAY – Three Norwegian local councils, Rygge, Lindås and Vågsøy, are tendering for group pension services in total worth NOK42m (€4.7m).
-
News
IPE-QUEST: Swiss foundation tenders real estate
REAL ESTATE – A Swiss investment foundation has tendered $100m+ (€78m) in global passively managed publicly traded real estate via IPE-Quest.
-
News
Norwegian fishermen name fund managers
NORWAY – The NOK630m (€70.6m) Garantikassen for Fiskere pension fund has appointed DnB NOR Kapitalforvaltning ASA and ABN Amro Kapitalforvaltning as its new asset managers.
-
News
IPE-QUEST: Three new fixed income searches
SWITZERLAND – There are three new fixed income searches from Swiss institutional investors on the IPE-Quest system.
-
News
Norway’s Ringerike seeks pension provider
NORWAY – The pension fund of the Norwegian municipality Ringerike is looking for an occupational pension service provider.
-
News
Aegon outsources €40bn to Citigroup
NETHERLANDS - Aegon Netherlands is to outsource €40bn to Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking as part of wider investment platform plans. Financial terms were not disclosed.
-
News
USS drops GSAM and LGIM
UK – The £22bn (€32.6bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme has dropped Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and Legal & General Investment Management as external managers to take more assets in-house.
-
News
Bexley, Lincolnshire name new managers
UK – The Bexley and Lincolnshire local authority pension funds have separately named new asset managers.
-
News
Denmark’s Lærernes hires PanAgora for US mid-caps
DENMARK – The DKK20bn (€2.7bn) Danish pension fund Lærernes Pension (Teachers’ Pension and Life) has appointed PanAgora Asset Management for $50m (€36.4m) in US mid-cap equities.
-
News
Sal. Oppenheim says it wins €60m hedge brief
GERMANY – Volkswagen Stiftung, a €2.4bn foundation that bears the German car giant’s name, has awarded German asset manager Oppenheim KAG with a €60m fund-of-hedge fund mandate, IPE has confirmed (Updates to name investor).
-
Features
The rise of fiduciary mandates
Is the move towards fiduciary management in Holland a new trend or simply a case of old wine in new bottles? David White investigates
