Real Estate – Page 81
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IVG to offer schemes custom real estate vehicles
REAL ESTATE - Bonn-based IVG Immobilien is to target pension funds with bespoke vehicles invested in non-listed real estate – in addition to its growing portfolio of closed-end core, opportunistic and development funds (This story originally appeared on IPERealEstate.com).
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Switzerland’s APK outlines switch to DC
SWITZERLAND – Aargauische Pensionskasse (APK), a CHF4.9bn (€3.1bn) pension fund for Swiss civil servants, plans to fully fund its liabilities by January 1 2008 following several reforms – notably a switch to defined contribution from defined benefit.
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Munich Re’s MEAG rolls out new funds
GERMANY – MEAG, the asset management arm of German re-insurance giant Munich Re, has confirmed the rollout of four new “i-shares” - mutual funds targeted exclusively at institutional investors.
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ABP setting 2007 investment plan
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, is currently in the process of establishing its new strategic investment plan to run from 2007 to 2009.
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Bank of NY launches Poland fund firm
POLAND – The Bank of New York has launched an investment fund company in Poland to tap pension fund demand.
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IPe-symposium: APK to up emerging markets
AUSTRIA – APK, the Austrian multi-employer pension fund, is looking to increase its allocation to emerging market equities and bonds “step by step”.
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Ex-Robeco CIO Vriezen to run C&A assets
NETHERLANDS - The former chief investment officer of Robeco, Marnix Vriezen, has taken over the management of the €1bn assets of the pension fund of C&A Nederland, the Dutch arm of the international clothes retailer.
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MEPs reject UCITS for pension directive
EUROPE – Members of the European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee have voted against proposals to bring UCITS investment funds within the scope of the directive on occupational pension funds.
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Dutch metals fund PMT in real estate purchase
NETHERLANDS – MN Services has bought 29 apartments in Rotterdam on behalf of its owner, the €20bn metalworkers’ scheme Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek.
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NAPF Conference: ESPS’s Barlow on bonds
UK - The idea of pension schemes just getting into bonds and gilts seems "crazy" to Electricity Supply Pension Scheme chief executive Richard Barlow.
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NAPF Conference: Hitchen on flight to bonds
UK - A flight to bonds is short-term thinking, according to Chris Hitchen, chairman of the National Association of Pension Fund's investment council.
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ABP and ATP in UK real estate venture
REAL ESTATE – The Netherlands’ ABP and Denmark’s ATP have signed up for a £500m (€724m) real estate joint venture. (This story previously appeared on www.iperealestate.com)
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Irish construction scheme ups real estate
REAL ESTATE - The Construction Federation Operatives Pension Scheme (CFOPS), the Irish builders’ fund, has boosted its real estate allocation by 2% with a move into indirect investment (This story previously appeared on www.iperealestate.com).
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ABN Amro exits Czech asset management
CZECH REPUBLIC – ABN Amro has sold its Czech asset management outfit to two Prague-based firms for an undisclosed amount.
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Finland’s Keva invests in Hermes European fund
FINLAND – The €17.1bn Finnish Local Government Pensions Institution, Keva, has invested in Hermes’ European Focus Fund.
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UK schemes still eye international equities – MAS
UK – The roughly 55%-45% split between UK and overseas equities in many pension fund investment portfolios could be on the road to complete reversal, according to Mellon Analytical Solutions.
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AXA IM posts 25% rise in AUM
GLOBAL – AXA Investment Managers’ assets under management rose 25% to €432bn in 2005, according to the annual results.
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Institutions ‘should beware commodity indices’
SPAIN - Institutional investors were put into the dock on their approach to commodities indices, at the World Cup of Indexing Conference.
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Dutch doctors’ fund interim CIO moves on
NETHERLANDS – Ton Groeneveld, interim chief investment officer at Doctors Pension Funds Services, has left following the appointment of permanent CIO Jan Willem Baan.
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Henderson facing axe at Fife Council
UK – The £950m (€1.4bn) Fife Council Pension Fund has put a roughly £200m global equity mandate out to tender following a review of the scheme’s structure.
