All articles by Carolyn Bandel – Page 32
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IPE-QUEST: Global corporate debt mandate
[11:30 CET 06-03] GLOBAL – An investment company in the Middle East is looking for managers for a global corporate debt mandate worth up to $500m, using IPE Quest.
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Irish effort forces NPRF to review SRI
[16:00 CET 05-03] IRELAND – The €21.3bn National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) is examining investments in cluster bomb manufacturers, following the Irish government’s participation an agreement to prohibit such weapon produce.
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Devon sacks State Street
[15:00 CET 05-03] UK – The £2.2bn (€2.9bn) Devon County Council pension fund has combined its two custody mandates, previously held by JPMorgan and State Street.
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Wednesday people roundup
[13:30 CET 05-03] GLOBAL: People roundup – Watson Wyatt, Hewitt, ING, Aberdeen, Close Brothers, BlackRock, SWIP, Henderson, Invesco, PCS, Pioneer, Cazenove.
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Kas Bank integrates back-office services
[16:25 CET 04-03] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch securities bank Kas Bank has today announced the merger of its back-office units, by launching integrated back-office outsourcing service.
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Stop ‘grotesque’ compensation – BT pension fund
[16:15 CET 04-03] GLOBAL – Donald McDonald, director of the trustee board at the £40bn British Telecom pension fund, has identified a lack of executive independence and 'fat cat' pay as the largest obstacles hindering corporate responsibility.
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AGI sees AuM drop to €970bn
[16:40 CET 03-03] GLOBAL – Allianz Global Investors (AGI), the asset management subsidiary of German insurer Allianz, saw its assets under management (AuM) drop to €970bn in 2007.
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Barnett Waddingham expands
[16:35 CET 03-03] UK – Barnett Waddingham, the UK-based actuarial consultancy company, has bought fellow consulting actuary Garvins for an undisclosed amoun
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Negative screening is 'politically correct'
[13:30 CET 03-03] EUROPE – A positive investment selection approach to identify companies with good environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices is too unattractive for most pension funds, experts have argued.
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ABP unveils the new face of admin
[11:50 CET 03-03] NETHERLANDS – The €217bn Dutch ABP pension scheme has today presented the name for its newly-established separate administration body, which it launched yesterday.
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Lambeth considers ETFs
[13:00 CET 29-02] UK – The £750m (€979m) London Borough of Lambeth pension fund is looking at the option of investing in so called exchange-traded funds (ETFs), IPE has learnt.
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German doctors mull infrastructure
[12:00 CET 29-02] GERMANY – The €9bn Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV), the German pension fund for doctors in the North Rhine region, is contemplating a move into infrastructure investments.
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Performance vs transparency in ETFs
[16:00 CET 28-02] EUROPE – Performance and transparency are battling it out with each other as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) push for more European institutional money, experts debated today.
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PensPlan launches ‘info points’
[15:30 CET 28-02] ITALY – PensPlan, the pension services provider of the semi-autonomous Trentino Alto Adige region in northern Italy, today has announced the launch of six so called info points, planned since last year.
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APN rebrands in push for cross-border business
[16:20 CET 27-02] NETHERLANDS – Aegon Pension Network (APN), the European group pension arm of Dutch insurer Aegon, will is rebranded as Aegon Global Pensions.
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Danish fund offers bond mandate
[15:15 CET 27-02] DENMARK – Nykredit Portfolio Administration is looking for a manager for an inflation- linked government bonds global developed markets mandate, on behalf of a Danish pension fund, and using IPE Quest.
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GKN swaps Watson Wyatt for Dutch Cardano
[15:00 CET 27-02] UK – The £2bn (€2.64bn) GKN Group Pension Scheme has tapped Dutch consultant Cardano to manage a £300m discrete portfolio of active equity investments, previously held by Watson Wyatt.
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Wednesday people roundup
[14:30 CET 27-02] GLOBAL – People roundup: ABP, BGI, Hewitt, AFM, Redington Partners, Citi, Hazell Carr.
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Ashmore survives market turmoil
[16:15 CET 26-02] UK – Asset manager Ashmore saw its assets under management (AuM) rise 16% to US$36.5bn (€24.5bn) between June 30 and the end of December last year, the company announced today.
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Brandenburg legislates for new pension fund
[15:00 CET 26-02] GERMANY – Brandenburg, one of the new German federal states, is planning to set up a new pension fund by the end of this year, IPE has learnt today.
