EUROPE – A large multinational company with close to 30 funded pension schemes worldwide has put out to tender two small cap mandates via IPE-Quest.

The company intends to offer their pension funds the opportunity to allocate their European and US small-cap equity investments to between two and four managers.

The intention is to grant an active pan-European small cap equity mandate denominated in euros, and an active US small cap equity mandate denominated in US dollars. The mandates may be further sub-divided into a growth and value mandate.

Mandate size is expected to between 50 million euros and 100 million euros for the pan-European portfolio, and between 50 million dollars and 100 million dollars for the US portfolio.

The closing date for applications is May 6.

Further details of the mandates and applications should be made through the IPE-Quest website, www.ipe-quest.com.