All articles by Daniel Brooksbank – Page 25
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Fitch to rate managers’ investment process
GLOBAL – Fitch Ratings has launched ratings of asset managers’ investment processes.
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SYMPOSIUM: World Bank pension chief on currency
GLOBAL – Sindo Oliveros, director of investments at the World Bank Pension Plan, has outlined his views on how currency fits in with pension fund investment strategy at the latest online IPe-Symposium.
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Nestlé setting up UK asset manager
UK – Nestlé says it is setting up a UK-based asset manager to provide services for its global pension funds.
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Legg Mason revamps structure, management
GLOBAL – Legg Mason has organized its business into three units and revamped its management structure as it absorbs its acquisition of the Citigroup Asset Management business.
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Central banks probe pension asset allocations
GLOBAL – Global central banks have set up a group to analyse how recent regulatory and accounting changes have affected pension funds’ asset allocations.
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SYMPOSIUM: Muysken on FX manager selection
GLOBAL – Bill Muysken, global head of research at Mercer Investment Consulting, has provided an insight into the way the consulting firm goes about analysing currency managers in a presentation at the latest IPe-Symposium.
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SYMPOSIUM: CalPERS eyes active currency
GLOBAL - The California Public Employees' Retirement System is to start an internal active currency management programme, according to a presentation at the latest IPe-Symposium.
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UK regulator plugs own growing pension deficit
UK – The UK’s main financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority, is putting almost £16m (€23m) towards shoring up a growing deficit at its £250m final salary pension fund.
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IPE-QUEST: German pension fund tenders equities
GERMANY – Swiss investment consultant Kottmann Advisory has tendered €100m in small and mid-cap European equities on behalf of a German pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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Merrill launches swap indices for pension funds
GLOBAL - Merrill Lynch has launched a new swap index series to help cater for the trend towards liability-driven investing by pension funds.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders fiduciary
NETHERLANDS – Consulting firm Avida International is looking for fiduciary managers for a multibillion-euro Dutch pension fund client via IPE-Quest.
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France's FRR hedge fund decision contested
FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites' decision to avoid hedge funds in its new strategic asset allocation has come under fire from the Edhec business school.
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GSAM wins €750m Océ fiduciary deal
NETHERLANDS - Goldman Sachs Asset Management says it has been appointed to as fiduciary manager for €750m in assets at Stichting Pensioenfonds Océ.
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UK actuaries pay €2.2m to plug own pension deficit
UK – The Faculty and Institute of Actuaries made an extra £1.5m (€2.17m) in additional contributions in the past year in a bid to erase a £3.6m deficit at their own pension fund, accounts show.
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Threadneedle to outsource to JP Morgan
UK - Threadneedle Investments is in talks to outsource its investment operations to JP Morgan – a move which will entail the transfer of an unspecified number of staff to the US bank.
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EU pensions committee admits “shortcomings”
EUROPE – CEIOPS, the Committee of European Insurance and Pension Supervisors, says there have been “unavoidable shortcomings” as it works on the EU Solvency II project for insurance.
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USS possibly “horribly wrong” on equities
UK – A leading fund manager has labelled the Universities Superannuation Scheme’s equity exposure an “animal-spirited punt” which could go “horribly wrong”.
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Law firm Freshfields rejigs pensions leadership
GLOBAL - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named Hamburg partner Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt as the sole head of its global pensions practice.
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Two UK local authorities go unconstrained
UK – Two UK local authority pension funds – London Borough of Enfield and the Lothian Pension Fund - have separately opted to run significant assets in an unconstrained manner.
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Towers Perrin in alliance with Austria’s Greco
AUSTRIA – Consulting firm Towers Perrin has formed an alliance partnership agreement with Austrian actuarial and benefits consulting firm Greco International.
