All articles by Richard Lowe – Page 5

  • European investor searches for emerging market equities manager
    News

    European investor searches for emerging market equities manager

    2010-05-11T14:45:00Z

    IPE-QUEST – A European institutional investor is conducting a search for asset managers to look after an emerging market equities mandate, using IPE-Quest.

  • Danish consultancy searches for emerging market bond managers
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    Danish consultancy searches for emerging market bond managers

    2010-05-10T15:30:00Z

    IPE-QUEST – Investment consultancy Kirstein Finance is conducting a search for corporate bond managers to look after a global emerging markets mandate for a Danish asset manager, using IPE-Quest.

  • GE Pension Trust’s active commodities strategy unlocked
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    GE Pension Trust’s active commodities strategy unlocked

    2010-05-06T12:30:00Z

    GLOBAL - An actively managed commodities strategy run for the General Electric Pension Trust in the US has been made available to other institutional investors.

  • Wednesday people roundup
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    Wednesday people roundup

    2010-05-05T14:27:00Z

    GLOBAL - Aon Consulting, Mercer, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, AXA Investment Managers, The Townsend Group, Principal Global Investors, KAS Bank, Close Brothers, Jupiter Asset Management, HSBC Securities Services, Xafinity Paymaster, Mayfair Capital Investment Management, Arbuthnot Real Estate Investment Management.

  • JURI votes unanimously in favour of AIFM amendments
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    JURI votes unanimously in favour of AIFM amendments

    2010-04-30T12:45:00Z

    EUROPE – The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, otherwise known as JURI, has voted unanimously in favour of proposed amendments to the EU’s controversial Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) Directive.

  • Pension fund searches for commodities derivatives manager
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    Pension fund searches for commodities derivatives manager

    2010-04-29T15:15:00Z

    IPE-QUEST – A pension fund based in continental Europe is conducting a search for asset managers to look after a global commodities derivatives mandate, using IPE-Quest.

  • Wednesday people round-up
    News

    Wednesday people roundup

    2010-04-28T15:27:00Z

    GLOBAL – Swiss social ministry, BT Group, Achmea Pensioenen, Mahex Pensioenfonds, British Airways Pensions, MFS Investment Management, Fidessa, Henderson Global Investors, Mercer, Alico, Zurich Financial Services Group, Aviva Investors, Lane Clark & Peacock, Invesco Perpetual, Bfinance, Skandia, Carbon Rating Agency

  • Country Report

    Basic principles

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    Richard Lowe assesses the UK’s Investment Governance Group and its ongoing work

  • Country Report

    Accounting for deficits

    September 2009 (Magazine)

    As UK pension funds continue to battle with worrying deficit levels, there is likely to be more bad news before things get better, finds Richard Lowe

  • UK seeks pension fund investment in housing
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    UK seeks pension fund investment in housing

    2009-05-01T13:00:00Z

    [14:00 CEST 01-05] UK - Plans to encourage pension funds to invest in private rented housing have been announced by the UK government’s Housing and Communities Agency (HCA).

  • APG makes sustainability call to pension funds
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    APG makes sustainability call to pension funds

    2009-04-28T13:30:00Z

    [14:30 CEST 28-04] EUROPE - APG Investments, the wholly-owned asset manager of the ABP pension fund, is planning to launch a global real estate sustainability survey with the University of Maastricht.

  • LPFA commits to ING’s global real estate FoF
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    LPFA commits to ING’s global real estate FoF

    2008-07-30T15:09:00Z

    [16:10 CEST 30-07] UK - The London Pension Fund Authority has committed £150m (€190m) of capital to a new global property fund of funds (FoF) launched this week by ING Real Estate Select.