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IPE-QUEST: Up to €74m for European equity
[13:15 CEST 21/05] GERMANY – A German corporate pension fund is looking for a manager for a $50-100m (to €74m) European equity mandate using IPE-QUEST.
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Employee power "creates pension fund conflict"
[16:52 CEST 18/05] SWEDEN – The governance structure of institutions potentially causes a conflict of interest between pensioners and active employees, says Peter Lindblad, managing director of Stockholm-based FPG-AMFK Pensionsgaranti.
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Eureko sale latest blow for F&C
[13:07 CEST 18/05] NETHERLANDS/UK – Dutch insurance giant Eureko is selling some of its shares in F&C Asset Management to finance a push into Central Europe and Turkey, the company has announced.
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Bedfordshire awards £125m mandate
[10:55 CEST 17/05] UK – The £1.07bn (€1.56bn) Bedfordshire County Council pension fund has found a manager for an additional passive equities mandate.
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Replace SRI with sustainable approach - Watson Wyatt
[16:45 CEST 15/05] UK – Pension fund managers may be able to meet their fiduciary duty and engage with companies on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues if they opt for sustainable investment strategies, suggests Watson Wyatt.
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Belgian funds seeks global equity managers
[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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DekaBank opens Vienna office
[17:02 CEST 11/05] AUSTRIA – German asset manager DekaBank is opening an office in Vienna targeting pension funds in Austria and Eastern Europe.
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Schroders loses balanced LGPS mandate
[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
[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
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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Edinburgh re-appoints State Street
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
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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AP7 in major portfolio overhaul
SWEDEN – In a major revamp of its portfolio the SEK80bn (€8.8bn) Swedish buffer fund AP7, Sjunde AP-fonden, shows more appetite for risk but not for hedge funds.
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Essex awards £1bn in mandates
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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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund in EM bond search
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
UK – The UK pension fund of Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Ciba Speciality Chemicals has axed BlackRock in favour of Insight Investments.
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Dutch LDI reaches €50bn - Cardano
NETHERLANDS – The volume of Dutch pension assets under liability-risk hedging strategies has reached €50bn, according to Cardano Risk Management.
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Unilever taps JP Morgan for global equities
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.
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Greeks to strike over bond scandal
GREECE – The largest union in Greece has called a nationwide strike on May 15 in response to government handling of dubious bond purchases by pension funds.
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Co-head of UK equities at £29bn scheme quits
UK – Fraser Slater, co-head of the UK equities team at the £29bn (€43bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), has left and the fund is looking for replacements.
