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    State Street GSS keeps British Airways custody

    2004-12-02T04:06:00Z

    UK – State Street Corp. says it has retained a 10 billion-pound (14.4 billion-euro) custody mandate from the British Airways Pension Trustees’ pension fund - previously serviced by the Deutsche Bank’s Global Securities Services arm it bought in 2003.

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    AP7 fires CDC Ixis for poor performance

    2004-11-29T04:08:00Z

    SWEDEN – The 40 billion-crown (4.5 billion-euro) Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund, Sjunde AP-fonden, has sacked CDC Ixis Asset Management – the first time it has fired an asset manager for poor performance.

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    Nomura ousts Schroders at London transport fund

    2004-11-23T04:44:00Z

    UK – Schroder Investment Management has lost a 215 million-pound (307.2 million-euro) mandate to Nomura Asset Management as the London Regional Transport Pension Fund (LRTPF) changes management for its active Far Eastern Equity portfolio

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    FRR has activated E4.8bn of mandates

    2004-11-23T03:56:00Z

    FRANCE – The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, the French reserve fund, says it has grown to just over 17 billion euros and has activated mandates involving 4.82 billion euros.

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    Italian railway scheme selects first managers

    2004-11-18T05:17:00Z

    ITALY - Eurofer, the 104 million-euro pension fund for railway workers, has selected its first asset managers.

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    IPE-QUEST: Swiss client tenders fixed interest

    2004-11-17T03:32:00Z

    SWITZERLAND - Investment consultant Kieger has tendered 100 million francs (65.8 million euros) in fixed interest on behalf of a corporate treasury client via IPE-Quest.

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    J P Morgan disappointed as F&C opts for Mellon

    2004-11-17T03:27:00Z

    EUROPE – The merged F&C Asset Management has opted to continue its outsourcing relationship with Mellon Financial Corp., resulting in a loss for a “disappointed” J P Morgan Investor Services.

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    Cominvest to outsource management of three funds

    2004-11-16T03:54:00Z

    GERMANY – Cominvest, Commerzbank's Germany-based asset management arm, says it wants to outsource the portfolio management of three of its ADIG retail mutual funds.

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    F&C says poised to decide on outsourcing

    2004-11-16T03:44:00Z

    EUROPE – The merged F&C-ISIS is poised to issue an announcement tomorrow about the outsourcing deals the combined group has with J P Morgan and Mellon.

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    DeAM, Schroders lose out at Avon Cosmetics

    2004-11-11T03:37:00Z

    UK - Deutsche Asset Management and Schroder Investment Management have lost out with the 102 million-pound (146.5 million-euro) pension scheme of Avon Cosmetics switching from a balanced to specialist strategy.

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    Pensions Trust hands iBoxx brief to Standard Life

    2004-11-10T03:33:00Z

    UK - Standard Life Investments says it has been awarded a 75 million-pound (107.4 million-euro) corporate bond brief by the Pensions Trust, benchmarked against the iBoxx index.

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    TKP Pensioen wins Wegener admin deal

    2004-11-09T03:54:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – TKP Pensioen, a subsidiary of life insurance giant Aegon, has won an administration contract with Dutch publishing house Wegener.

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    Italy’s Solidarieta’ Veneto tenders for managers

    2004-11-08T04:03:00Z

    ITALY - Solidarieta’ Veneto Fondo Pensione, the regional pension fund for blue-collar workers, is looking for three asset managers for its 60-million-euro fund.

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    IPE-QUEST: UK house tenders Japanese equities

    2004-11-08T03:58:00Z

    UK – A UK institutional investor has tendered 50-100 million dollars (71-143 million euros) in actively managed Japanese mid- or mid-and small-cap equities via IPE-Quest.

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    IPE-Quest has 13 searches worth E1bn

    2004-11-05T04:01:00Z

    GLOBAL – Thirteen new searches worth more than a billion euros have gone live on IPE-Quest, IPE’s online mandate matching service, in the last few days.

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    Italy’s Marco Polo tenders admin, depositary

    2004-11-04T04:03:00Z

    ITALY - Marco Polo-Fond Pensione, the pension scheme targeting the 800,000-strong tourism sector, has tendered for a depositary bank and an administrative service provider.

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    Norcros scheme taps KAS Bank for custody

    2004-11-03T03:27:00Z

    UK - KAS Bank of the Netherlands has been appointed as the first ever global custodian of the 320 million-pound (461.7 million-euro) pension fund of Norcros, the UK-based tile and shower maker.

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    Lothian scheme looking for consultants

    2004-10-28T04:24:00Z

    UK - The two billion-pound (2.87 billion-euro) Lothian Pension Fund is looking for two consultants for asset liability studies and strategic advice.

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    AXA Rosenberg says it wins CAA equities brief

    2004-10-21T04:29:00Z

    UK - AXA Rosenberg says it has been selected by the 3.7 billion-pound (5.3 billion-euro) Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme to manage a 70 million-pound European equity mandate.