All IPE articles in October 2006 (Online)
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Coal Pension Trustees names new CEO
UK – Whitbread’s Geoff Mellor is to take over from David Morgan as chief executive of Coal Pension Trustees, the executive arm of the UK’s more than £25bn (€36.9bn) coal industry funds.
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UK MPs’ scheme to invest in hedge funds
UK – The around £280m (€414m) Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund of the House of Commons is looking to award an £8m mandate to a fund of hedge fund manager.
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DNB study: Dutch funds to use more derivatives
NETHERLANDS – A paper from Dutch pension regulator De Nederlandsche Bank sees derivatives and asset liability management becoming more important for pension funds.
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ING IM names Germany head
GERMANY - ING Investment Management has named Pioneer Investments' Matthias Schellenberg as head of Germany.
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Lithuanian pension funds to merge
LITHUANIA – Invalda AB, the parent company of Finasta Investment Management, has bought Medicinos banko Investment Management.
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Cornwall awards currency brief to Mellon
UK - Cornwall County Council’s Cornwall Pension Fund has awarded a £175m (€258m) currency mandate to Mellon Capital.
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Deutsche fund arms best for pensions - survey
GERMANY – Institutional fund manager Deutsche Asset Management and its retail sister DWS are best positioned to win pensions business in Germany, according to a new survey of 43 asset managers in that market.
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Schroders nabs ex-BIS asset management head
UK – Guy Henriques has been appointed as head of official institutions at Schroders. He joins from the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) where he had been head of asset management.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss institution tenders equities
SWITZERLAND – A Swiss institutional investor has tendered around CHF100m (€63.2m) in active Swiss small and mid-cap equities via IPE-Quest.
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Gwynedd scheme to put 5% into private equity
UK – The £741m (€1.1bn) Gwynedd council pension fund is looking to invest in private equity via fund of fund managers to help address its £129m deficit.
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Big European funds: ‘We want skilled managers’
EUROPE – Some of Europe’s largest pension funds have acknowledged that the search for alpha – market outperformance - is a search for skills.
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ABP’s Munsters hails €300m hedge fund profit
NETHERLANDS – Roderick Munsters, chief investment officer of the €200bn Dutch civil service pension fund ABP, has hailed the fund’s profits from its hedge fund investments in a TV programme.
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Polish reformer Góra condemns govt plans
POLAND – Marek Góra, the Warsaw School of Economics professor who was one of the architects of the Polish pension reform, has condemned the Polish government’s pre-pensions proposals, saying they would amount to a “disaster”.
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Paternoster awards custody brief to State Street
UK – New pensions buyout firm Paternoster has appointed State Street to provide it with custody and securities lending services.
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New chairman at AMF Pension Fondförvaltning
SWEDEN – AMF Pension Fondförvaltning’s, the fund administration company owned by AMF Pension, has named Tor Marthin as its new chairman.
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Swiss schemes’ first-half returns barely positive
SWITZERLAND – In the first half of 2006 a sample of Swiss pension funds achieved a net overall performance of just under 0.6%, against 5.6% a year before.
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New hires at Mercer and Lane Clark & Peacock
UK – There have been a series of new appointments at pension consulting firms Mercer Human Resource Consulting and Lane Clark & Peacock.
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ABP’s CFO critical of UK pension system
EUROPE - Dick Sluimers, chief financial officer at Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, has criticised the UK pension system.
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Deutsche asset chief Benkner to depart
GERMANY – Axel Benkner, chief executive of Deutsche Bank’s retail fund firm DWS and the de-facto number two in the bank’s global asset management business, has decided to step down, IPE has learned.
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Extra €75bn goes to external managers - report
EUROPE – European institutional investors have put an extra €75bn with external asset managers, according to consulting firm Greenwich Associates.
