Investor Strategy – Page 94
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NewsUK roundup: Steve Webb, NEST, OFT, Aon Hewitt
UK – Pensions minister tells conference OFT report's delivery by August 'vitally important'.
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NewsStudy shows growing interest in ETFs among pension professionals
EUROPE – European market offers 'huge' growth potential, State Street Global Advisors says.
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News€4.6bn UWV pension fund to ramp up exposure to alternatives
NETHERLANDS – Scheme shifts strategy in bid to meet performance, inflation-protection goals.
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NewsConstruction-risk guarantees for infrastructure 'damaging'
EUROPE – Blanket guarantees on debt financing simply create taxpayer liabilities, EDHEC says.
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NewsGerman investors keen to increase risk, but wary of Solvency II
GERMANY – BVI says investors keen to boost equity exposure 'put off' by upcoming legislation.
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NewsEuropean stocks 'artificially cheap', says GAM
EUROPE – Investment manager says stocks undervalued merely for being domiciled in Europe.
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NewsContinuing euro-zone crisis boosts real estate investor sentiment
EUROPE – More than 80% of Ernst & Young survey respondents expect deal volume to increase.
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Ireland's pensions reserve fund earmarks €500m for SMEs
IRELAND – Fund’s discretionary portfolio sees returns of 7.3% in 2012, boosting AUM by €1.3bn.
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Hertfordshire LGPS awards fiduciary mandate to Swiss manager
UK – Alternatives portfolio worth as much as £300m to be overseen by LGT Capital Partners.
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NewsSweden's AP1 makes foray into emerging market small caps
SWEDEN – Buffer fund tenders framework agreement to grow number of active managers.
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NewsFrench giant FRR awards active sustainable equity mandate
FRANCE – Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites awards ESG mandate to three asset managers.
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NewsCanada Pension Plan enters Nordic real estate market
NORTH AMERICA – CPPIB considers deal 'first step' in ongoing joint investment platform.
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NewsFrance's UMR to avoid 'excessive' PE fees with new deal structure
FRANCE – Pension fund aiming to arrange deals without help of fund managers.
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€1.5bn pension fund for dentists to divest one-third of equities
NETHERLANDS – Scale of equity holdings posed ‘considerable risk’ to scheme, study shows.
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NewsSectors lagging in 2012 tipped to outperform in January
GLOBAL – Morgan Stanley research suggests so-called 'January effect' also applies in reverse.
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NewsAP3 to take over social infrastructure joint venture
SWEDEN – National buffer fund to acquire 50% of Hemsö it does not already own.
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NewsHedge fund investors sacrificing returns for liquidity – survey
GLOBAL – Preqin study points to growing importance of liquidity since credit crisis.
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Survey shows waning interest in fiduciary management in Netherlands
NETHERLANDS – Pension funds less likely to outsource asset management, IPNederland survey shows.
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NewsMandate roundup: IPE-Quest, Cumbria, Standard Life Investments
EUROPE – European public pension fund tenders for high-yield corporate bond manager, using IPE-Quest.
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NewsAsset owners using ESG for long-term risk management – survey
GLOBAL – Investors more 'aware' of economic impact of social, environmental crises.
