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Lewisham considers alternative assets
UK – The £505m (€752m) London Borough of Lewisham pension fund is the next in line planning to go into alternative investments.
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Horeca taps SPF for €40m private equity brief
NETHERLANDS – Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering, the €2bn Dutch hotel and catering scheme, has awarded SPF Beheer with a €40m private equity mandate, as part of its 5% weighting target in the asset class.
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Warwickshire to put 10% into alternatives
UK - Warwickshire County Council has tendered for up to £100m (€148m) in real estate and fund of hedge funds for the £1bn Warwickshire Pension Fund.
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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.
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Norwegian Global fund reviewing strategy
NORWAY – The NOK1.5trn (€180bn) Norwegian Government Pension Fund is reviewing its “low return volatility” investment strategy, says the central bank.
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Synesis taps Capita, seeks fixed income managers
UK – Synesis Life, the new pensions liability buyout firm, has appointed Capita Hartshead as third party administrator and said it is looking for one or more asset managers with a fixed-income focus.
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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.
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German institutions eye structured, private equity
GERMANY – Pension funds and insurers are planning more investment in alternatives this year and next, but will only award mandates for structured products and private equity, according to a new survey by German consultant Heissmann.
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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.
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Europe’s investors ‘in love’ with finance stocks
EUROPE – European investors have a “love affair with finance stocks” says Merrill Lynch Investment Manager’s David Bowers, following the firm’s September fund manager survey.
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CEE: Exceptional growth
CENTRAL EUROPE - Central and Eastern Europe's second-pillar pension funds recorded exceptional year-on-year growth in 2005, well ahead of the rise in numbers of clients, despite their relatively conservative investment strategies. There have also been relatively few changes in the rankings compared with 2004. There were no changes in the ...
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Netherlands: Interesting times
NETHERLANDS - There's an old Chinese curse that says 'may you live in interesting times'. It might have been coined for the Dutch pensions industry. "All times are interesting, especially for Dutch pension funds," says Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of pension fund for self-employed medical specialists SPMS. "There is so much ...
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UK: General trend into bonds
UK - Recent years have seen a general trend within the UK pensions industry from equities into bonds, according to Joanne Segars, incoming chief executive at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).
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Germany: Book reserves still common
GERMANY - Although there are five different ways of creating an occupational pension the most common, with more than 50% of all pension assets and totalling around €400bn, is still through the book reserves of the employer, according to Klaus Stiefermann, general manager of the Association of Company Pension Schemes ...
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IPE-QUEST: Three new fixed income searches
SWITZERLAND – There are three new fixed income searches from Swiss institutional investors on the IPE-Quest system.
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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.
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Bexley, Lincolnshire name new managers
UK – The Bexley and Lincolnshire local authority pension funds have separately named new asset managers.
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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.
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JP Morgan ousts Wellington at Merseyside
UK - The £3.8bn (€5.5bn) Merseyside Pension Fund has appointed JP Morgan Asset Management for its newly created £100m European (ex-UK) equities mandate.
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Henderson posts €4.3bn institutional outflow
UK – Henderson Global Investors had a £2.9bn (€4.3bn) outflow of institutional assets in the first half of 2006, the company said in its first-half report.
