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Croydon pension fund targets GTAA
[17:25 CEST 15-05] UK – Croydon Council is seeking a supplier for the combined roles of providing Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) advice to its pension fund while also managing a £25m (€28m) Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) mandate.
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Irish tourism authority seeks pensions admin
[17:20 CEST 15-05] IRELAND - Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, is tendering a contract for consultancy and administration services to its three pension funds.
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ATP heads up personal accounts admin shortlist
[17:20 CEST 13-05] UK – ATP is among a shortlist of four potential suppliers of scheme administration services for the new system of personal accounts.
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Life expectancy ‘rising faster than forecast’
[17:15 CEST 13-05] NETHERLANDS - The life expectancy of the Dutch population has increased much more than initially forecast, the Actuarial Society (AG) has suggested.
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Vopak swaps Mn Services for BlackRock
[16:15 CEST 12-05] NETHERLANDS - After a lengthy evaluation process, the pension scheme of Vopak, storage provider for bulk liquids, has given a fiduciary mandate worth €500m to Black Rock.
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Avon calls on HSBC
[16:25 CEST 05-05] UK – Bath and North East Somerset Council has appointed HSBC Actuaries and Consultants to provide full investment consultancy services to the £1.95bn (€2.2bn) Avon Pension Fund.
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Mercer takes on competitors with ‘boutique’ research
[17:00 CEST 28-04] GLOBAL – Mercer, the pensions and investment consultant, has split out its investment manager research into individual asset class ‘boutiques’, in a bid to provide its pension consulting clients with more specialist investment manager data.
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University of Glasgow awards mandate to PwC
[17:05 CEST 27-04] UK – The University of Glasgow has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct its scheme administration and actuarial consultancy services.
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Hewitt to work with W.Yorks pension fund
[17:15 CEST 14-04] UK – Bradford City Council has appointed Hewitt Associates as the new actuarial services provider to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund.
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TPR seeks consultancy for DC review
[16:55 CESt 08-04] UK – The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is seeking a consultant to review the risks surrounding defined contribution (DC) schemes and to propose a new regulatory framework.
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Bexley appoints Hewitt for investment
[16:30 CEST 03-04] UK – The London Borough of Bexley has appointed Hewitt Associates as the investment adviser to its £390m (€427m) local government pension fund.
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Mercer and Callan merger is off
[15:15 CEST 31-03] US – Callan Associates, the North America-based adviser to institutional investors, and Mercer Investment Consulting have called off the planner merger of their investment consulting businesses.
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Former Compendeon CEO targets emerging markets
[16:55 CEST 30-03] NETHERLANDS – Erik van Dijk, former chief executive and chief investment officer at Compendeon, has set up a new implemented consulting business with a strong focus on emerging markets.
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Aon and Russell link for fudiciary management
[17:10 CET 24-03] EUROPE – Aon Consulting and multi-manager investment house Russell Investments are teaming up from July this year to deliver pension funds a full fiduciary management service.
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South Yorks seeks bonds as Pioneer delivers GEMs in Somerset
[16:20 CET 24-03] UK – The South Yorkshire Pension Fund is searching for at least one UK corporate bond investment manager with a mandate of up to £300m (€326m).
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Habitat appoints SEI as fiduciary manager
[16:55 CET 17-03] UK – SEI has been appointed as the fiduciary manager to the £24m (€26m) Habitat UK Pension and Life Assurance Plan.
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Trustee knowledge maximises consultancy service
[16:50 CET 17-03] EUROPE – Pension fund executives and trustees can get more from their relationships with and the services delivered by consultants by improving their own knowledge base, suggests a study conducted by IPE.
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Consultants look to the future
[16:50 CET 13-03] GLOBAL – Pension fund consultants must achieve a greater understanding of their clients’ needs and constraints and should consider more closely what investments will benefit them, according to consultants questioned in an IPE study.
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Consultants state position on conflicts of interest
[17:20 CET 11-03] EUROPE – Pensions and investment consultants still appear to be in disagreement when asked whether giving both advice and selling multi-manager investments within a single firm creates conflicts of interest.
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Crisis increases demands on consultants
[16:00 CET 10-03] EUROPE – Pensions and investment consultants say they now expect to face higher scrutiny of their own services by clients as well as challenges to the advice they give, as a result of the recent financial crisis.
