Markets – Page 213
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IPE-QUEST: $20m Swiss emerging markets mandate
[17:16 CEST 06/06] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss pension fund is looking for a manager for a $20m (€15m) active global emerging markets equity portfolio.
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Kent appoints UK equity manager
[17:04 CEST 06/06] UK – The £2.4bn (€3.6bn) Kent County Council Superannuation Scheme has finalised the restructuring of its UK equities portfolio by naming Invesco Perpetual.
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Co-operative fund on diversification streak
[16:28 CEST 05/06] UK - The new £5.5bn career average Co-operative Group Pension Scheme is adjusting its equity/bond split in favour of diversification into currency, commodities and infrastructure.
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BidRoute launches to improve the buy route
[16:26 CEST 05/06] EUROPE - A new trading platform for asset managers, which has the potential to break the stranglehold of the top brokerage firms for portfolio trades, could dramatically improve the quality of trading data fund managers present to clients.
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IPE-QUEST: $50m Eastern Europe mandate in Denmark
[10:50 CEST 05/06] DENMARK/GERMANY – A Danish institutional investor is looking for a manager for an active equity mandate in excess of $50m (€37.1m).
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Cheshire going all active in bonds
16:56 CEST 04/06] UK – The £2.3bn (€3.4bn) Cheshire County Council pension fund is tendering a £330m active bond mandate.
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Russia models new welfare fund on Norway
[10:46 CEST 04/06] RUSSIA – Up to €8bn of the soon-to -be-created Russian National Welfare Fund will be invested in the stock market, finance minister Alexei Kudrin has announced.
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Greek pension reform 'urgent' - OECD
[13:16 CEST 31/05] GREECE – Pension expenditure is set to grow to one-fifth of Greece's GDP by 2050, the OECD warns.
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Artists' funds choose Schroders
NETHERLANDS – Kunst & Cultuur, the life insurer managing the €400m assets of the five Dutch art and cultural pension funds, has tapped Schroders for an €82m equity mandate.
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JPMorgan offers Greek pension funds pay-back
[17:00 CEST] GREECE – JPMorgan has signed an agreement with London-based hedge fund North Asset Management to repurchase €280m in structured bonds sold to Greek investors.
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Dutch schemes unfazed by high yield worries
[10:58 CEST 24/05] NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds aren’t worried yet about gloomy predictions on the future of high yield corporate fixed income investments, they have made clear.
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Horeca sacks disappointing F&C
[16:48 CEST 23/05] NETHERLANDS – Horeca, the €2.7bn industry-wide fund for the Dutch hotel and catering sector, has replaced F&C on two mandates because the asset manager’s performance did “not meet expectations”.
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United Norwest seeks multi-asset returns via Barings
[12:56 CEST 23/05] UK- The United Norwest Co-operatives Employees’ Pension Fund has handed Baring Asset Management a mandate to manage £23m through its Extended Risk Fund.
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Leicestershire chooses hedge funds manager
[11:00 CEST 23/05] UK – The £1.9bn (€2.8bn) Leicestershire County Council pension fund found a manager for a £105m targeted return mandate.
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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.
