All Alternatives articles – Page 125
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Cayman Islands boosted by pension inflows
CAYMAN ISLANDS – The Cayman Islands’ hedge fund industry is still being boosted by pension fund inflows, according to a local legal firm.
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GSAM says it wins €785m from local authorities
UK - Goldman Sachs Asset Management says it has won a total of £533m (€785m) from three UK local authorities.
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Threadneedle names Nordic distribution head
NORDIC – Threadneedle Investments has named Thomas Berglund as head of Nordic distribution, responsible for the developing the firm’s business in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
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Skandia hands €500m equities brief to NTGI
SWEDEN – Skandia Liv has handed a €500m passive international equities mandate to Northern Trust Global Investments.
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Swiss Capital awards custody to Northern Trust
SWITZERLAND – Swiss Capital, a Zurich-based alternatives firm which manages pension fund assets, has handed a $1.2bn (€1bn) hedge fund custody and administration mandate to Northern Trust.
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CSAM Germany institutional assets up 23%
GERMANY - The German arm of Credit Suisse Asset Management has reported a 23% rise in institutional assets under management during the first half.
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Heitman promotes ex-ABP real estate exec Spencer
EUROPE - Otis Spencer, the former real estate executive at ABP Investments who joined US real estate firm Heitman LLC recently, has been promoted in a management shake-up.
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Bayer gains €200m from shift to DC in the US
GERMANY – Industrial giant Bayer expects to gain a one-time bonus of €200m in the third quarter, mostly as a result of changes to its US pension plan.
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Row looms between German consultants, managers
GERMANY – A row is looming in Germany as investment consultants complain that asset managers are trying to break into their market – a charge that managers deny.
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Dutch schemes gain €2.1bn from NIBC sale
NETHERLANDS – ABP and PGGM say the proceeds from the sale of their 50-50 owned merchant bank NIB Capital will amount to more than €2bn.
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State Street ‘could double Ireland workforce’
IRELAND – State Street Corp. could eventually employ up to 2,000 people in Ireland, the Boston-based bank’s chief executive Ron Logue has been quoted as saying.
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Pearson pension scheme manager retires
UK – Pam Jenkins, secretary and manager of the £1bn (€1.5bn) defined benefit group pension of publishing group Pearson, has retired.
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Shake-up at Nestlé’s Irish fund arm Robusta
IRELAND – Three pension executives of Swiss food group Nestlé have joined the board at Irish Stock Exchange-listed Robusta Asset Management Ltd.
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Nestlé’s Spanish scheme eyes infrastructure
SPAIN - The €250m Spanish pension fund of Swiss-based food giant Nestlé says it may turn to infrastructure investments in its quest to broaden investments allocation.
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Staffordshire scheme revamps managers
UK – The £1.7bn (€2.5bn) Staffordshire County Council Pension Fund has revealed a sweeping revamp of its investment manager roster.
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Citco changes owners
GLOBAL– Hedge funds service provider The Citco Group Ltd has announced that an investor group has acquired “a controlling interest” in the firm from the Sandoz Family Foundation.
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AXA IM to buy Framlington Group Ltd for €252m
UK – AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is poised to buy boutique Framlington Group Ltd from HSBC Holdings and Comerica Inc for £174m (€252.1m).
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Deutsche AM posts €12bn 1H05 investor outflows
GERMANY – Deutsche Asset Management, the institutional fund arm of Deutsche Bank, suffered €12bn in investor outflows during the first half of 2005.
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Institution lifts Pioneer’s first-half results
GLOBAL – A European institutional investor is responsible for over half of the €4.8bn of inflows netted by Pioneer Investments in the first half of 2005.
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IPE-QUEST: €10.6bn fund tenders hedge funds/TAA
EUROPE - A $13bn (€10.6bn) European pension fund has tendered for up to five global macro hedge fund/tactical asset allocation (TAA) overlay managers via IPE-Quest.
