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Munsters has cheap E1m mortgage with PGGM
NETHERLANDS – Roderick Munsters, chief investment officer of 53 billion-euro Dutch healthcare fund PGGM, has a discounted mortgage loan of almost one million euros with the fund.
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Dispute over size of French SRI market
FRANCE – A dispute has emerged over the size of the French SRI market, with estimates that the market is worth up to 4.5 billion euros criticised as “Alice in Wonderland”.
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Lancashire awards custody amid wider revamp
UK - The 2.4 billion-pound (3.56 billion-euro) Lancashire County Council Pension Fund says it will appoint ABN Amro Mellon as its custodian.
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Aon names McKinlay head of investment practice
UK – Aon Consulting has named Ian McKinlay as head of its investment practice.
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Comet appoints Punter Southall as consultant
UK - Punter Southall & Co says it has been appointed as actuaries and consultants to the 100 million-pound (149 million-euro) pension fund of retailer Comet Group.
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Hedge fund market “overheated” - Greenwich
GLOBAL – Greenwich Associates has warned of possible “overheating” in the hedge fund market – driven in part by a flood of pension capital.
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CalPERS says it beats benchmark by over 2%
US – CalPERS has said it returned 29.6% in the one-year period to the end of March, taking its assets to 165.8 billion dollars and beating its benchmark by more than two percent.
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T-Mobile awards actuarial consulting to Mercer
UK – Mercer Human Resource Consulting says it has been appointed to provide actuarial consulting services to the pension scheme of mobile phone firm T-Mobile.
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Hammonds names senior pensions solicitor
UK - Law firm Hammonds says it has appointed Clifford Sims as senior pensions solicitor.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch pension fund tenders real estate
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch consultant has tendered 10 million euros in real estate for a Dutch pension fund via IPE-Quest.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss pension fund tenders EM debt
SWITZERLAND - Geneva-based consultant MBS Capital has tendered around 25 million dollars in actively managed global emerging markets debt on behalf of a Swiss pension fund via IPE-Quest.
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NAPF Conference: consultants want governance
UK - The government should legislate for "a more appropriate governance structure" for pensions, says the president of the Society of Pensions Consultants.
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SG’s asset management arm posts E4.9bn inflow
FRANCE – Société Générale’s asset management arm had 4.9 billion euros in net new money in the first quarter of 2004.
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Mercer changes approach in Petroleum Fund report
NORWAY – Mercer Investment Consulting has not made qualitative comments in its latest annual report into Norway’s 845.3 billion-crown (97.9 billion-euro) Petroleum Fund.
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Channel Islands: BWCI partner Benjamin retires
CHANNEL ISLANDS - Rodney Benjamin, a partner of the Channel Islands-based actuaries and consultants association BWCI Group, has retired.
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Mercer says it's cooperating with US SEC
US – Mercer Investment Consulting is “fully cooperating” with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into the pay arrangements of pension fund consultants in the US.
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Waddingham to head UK actuaries’ association
UK – The Association of Consulting Actuaries has voted Adrian Waddingham, a founding partner of consulting firm Barnett Waddingham, as chairman.
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Sweden’s AP1 raises currency exposure to 20%
SWEDEN - The 139 billion-crown (15.2 billion-euro) Swedish buffer fund Första AP-fonden says it has raised the currency exposure in its strategic benchmark to 20%, from 15% previously.
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IPE-Quest: German fund tenders high-yield debt
GERMANY – A German consultant has tendered an initial 75 million euros in global high-yield debt for a German pension fund via IPE-Quest.
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Sainsbury scheme eyes currency overlay
UK – The head of the 2.7 billion-pound (four billion-euro) pension fund of retailer J Sainsbury says the fund is considering a currency overlay strategy.
