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Pension funds tap growing prospects for emerging markets
[12:30 CET 13-01] IPE-QUEST – Two European pension funds are pursuing the predicted surge of interest in emerging markets equity investments and have launched searches for suitable EM managers, using IPE-Quest.
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NBIM begins search for environmental managers
[16:30 CET 08-01] NORWAY – Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) is seeking managers to run a series of mandates aimed at the environmental and sustainable resource sectors.
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BlackRock predicts low inflation to stay in 2010
[16:30 CET 07-01] GLOBAL - Inflation is likely to remain low in 2010 and the US equity market will outperform other developed markets, according to BlackRock’s Bob Doll.
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Pension funds embark on Quest to invest
[16:55 CET 06-01] IPE-QUEST – Two consultancy firms are seeking equity and bond managers on behalf of their clients, one of which is confirmed as being a Danish pension fund.
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UK roundup: PPF targets secondary private equity
[15:45 CET 05-01] UK - The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is seeking investment managers to take advantage of opportunities in the secondary private equity market. It is also re-tendering its global custody contract while the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is seeking a multi-asset passive investment manager.
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Equities recover but still deliver ‘worst decade’ performance
[16:45 CET 04-01] GLOBAL – MSCI Barra, the provider of equity market benchmark data, said strong performance of major regional equity indices indicated a recovery in stock markets last year. Yet rival provider S&P Indices said equities also delivered the worst 10-year performance ever recorded during the Noughties.
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FRR fires Dexia for poor performance
FRANCE – Fonds de Reserve pour Retraites (FRR) has dropped Dexia Asset Management as one of its European equity managers on the back of poor investment performance.
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Not a good time for interest rate matching - IPE survey
[15:00 CET 23-12] EUROPE - Now is not a good time to use assets to match interest rate risk in a liability-driven investments (LDI) strategy. Bond yields are too low and assets are better employed seeking yield elsewhere, according to 61.5% of pension funds responding to an IPE survey.
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PPF appoints global equity managers
[16:30 CET 22-12] UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has confirmed the appointment of seven global equity managers to help manage its assets.
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NewsFRR completes third set of bond appointments
[16:45 CET 18-12] FRANCE - Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR), the €31.9bn French national pension reserve fund, has completed its recent renewal of some fixed income mandates with the appointment of five managers to run US bond mandates.
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Russian wealth fund timed equity move to reap market turn
[14:00 CET 18-12] RUSSIA - Russia’s sovereign National Wealth Fund has benefited to the tune of billions following a move earlier this year - to invest in domestic equities - that has been described by analysts as the “trade of the decade”.
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UK roundup: Tyne & Wear, Shropshire, Kent, Xafinity, FSA, PMI
[16:30 CET 17-12] UK – Several UK local authorities have reviewed their investment and administration mandates while there have been developments elsewhere in relation to UK pensions regulation.
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New chief at Austria's VVP considers equity risk hedge
[16:00 CET 17-12] AUSTRIA – The Victoria-Volksbanken Pensionskasse (VVP) may hedge parts of its portfolio in 2010, its new head Axel Hartleib, has told IPE.
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AP1 targets 12 managers for US small caps
[16:00 CET 15-12] SWEDEN: Första AP-fonden (AP1), the First Swedish National Pension Fund, has approved a list 12 investment managers to manage passive and active US small cap equity accounts.
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Poland to ease pensions investment rules (amended)
POLAND – As part of the plan to divert some contributions from the second pillar to the first investment regulations for open pension funds (OPFs) would be loosened, IPE learnt.
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Two down, one to go: FRR signs fresh credit strategies
[13:30 CET 11-12] FRANCE - Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites (FRR), the French pension reserve fund, has completed the appointment for its second lot of bond mandates, and now has just one more to go.
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UK roundup - Royal Mail, Wandsworth, Oxford and Powys
[16:15 CET 10-12] UK – Royal Mail has also revealed its pension deficit may have tripled in the last three years while three local authorities are making changes to their pension funds.
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Strathclyde drops bonds managers for absolute returns
[16:10 CET 07-12] UK – Glasgow City Council has replaced incumbent managers Henderson New Star and Western Asset Managers as holders of the Strathclyde Pension Fund’s bonds contracts, in favour of two new managers with absolute returns bond mandates.
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DB Advisors predicts interest rate and accounting change
[16:00 CET 07-12] EUROPE – Georg Schuh, chief investment manager at DB Advisors, has sought to lift some of the worries that German pension have about their bond yields and predicted the US Federal Reserve will increase interest rates by next year.
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One in four German institutions replaced managers post-crisis
[17:05 CET 03-12] GERMANY – German ratings agency Feri has found some German institutional investors have replaced their asset managers in the wake of the recent financial turbulence.
