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Cambridge tenders €44m currency brief
UK - Cambridgeshire County Council has tendered a £30m (€44.7m) currency mandate.
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UK roundup: Merchant Navy, Pirelli schemes agree derisking deals
Also: LGPS launches investment consultancy procurement framework; New standards for independent trustees
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Cambridgeshire awards global equity mandate
[16:10 CEST 01-08] UK – The £1.4bn (€1.8bn) pension fund of UK local authority Cambridgeshire county council has tapped RCM to manage a £140m global equity mandate.
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Cambridgeshire awards £30m currency mandate (amended)
[10:55 CEST 15/05] UK – The £1.3bn (€2bn) Cambridgeshire County Council has awarded two currency mandates. (amends details of second Record mandate win)
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Cambridge fund awards custody to ABN Amro Mellon
UK – The Cambridgeshire County Council Pension Fund has awarded a £1.2bn (€1.8bn) custody, investment accounting and securities lending mandate to ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services.
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Cambridgeshire goes passive
[12:35 CEST 21-07] UK – The £1.4bn (€1.8bn) pension fund of UK local authority Cambridgeshire county council has awarded a £140m passive equity mandate to State Street Global Advisors (SSgA).
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Cambridgeshire signs CAAM to equity portfolio
[16:00 CEST 21-08] UK – Cambridgeshire County Council has edged one step closed to completing the reallocation of its pension fund’s equity portfolio and appointed Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) to manage a £160m European equities mandate.
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UBS and Schroders sacked for poor performance
[13:00 CET 29-01] UK – Cambridgeshire County Council’s pension fund has dropped Schroders and UBS for underperformance and is now seeking new equity managers to look after half of its assets.
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Local authority pension funds on brink of unique collaboration
Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire councils say agreement could cut fund management costs.
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Mandate roundup: ERAFP, BNP Baribas, Neuflize OBC, Norfolk
EUROPE – French pension fund appoints three to framework agreement, seeds Amundi's mandate.
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Cambridge appoints Deustche for €1.6bn custody
UK – The £1bn (€1.6bn) Cambridgeshire County Council Pension Scheme has appointed Deutsche Bank as global custodian for its assets. The mandate was awarded following a formal tender process. There is no outgoing global custodian as the appointment is for a new position in line with the pension fund’s strategy ...
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Mellon, BoNY assessing custody joint ventures
EUROPE – Mellon Financial and the Bank of New York are assessing their respective European custody joint ventures following yesterday’s announcement that they plan to merge.
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Welsh fund taps Newton for global equities
[16:40 CEST 05-08] UK – Rhondda Cynon Taff County Council has awarded Newton Investment Management a £221m (€278m) active global equity mandate.
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Schroders makes hedge fund appointment
UK - Schroders has appointed Russell Investment Group’s Derek Doupe to the new role of head of business development for its fund of hedge funds business.
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Active Management: False economies?
An influential consultancy tasked with finding savings in the UK’s local government pensions scheme has put forward the idea of pooling its funds into passive investment. Brendan Maton looks at the issues and the sector’s response