All articles by Liam Kennedy – Page 25

  • News

    AP7 to seek new tenders as Carnegie wins equity deal

    2007-06-12T12:17:00Z

    [13:17 CEST 12-06] SWEDEN - AP7, the Swedish national fund for the PPM first pillar pension system, has appointed Stockholm-based Carnegie for a second pure alpha equity overlay mandate and will soon seek additional managers in the Asian and passive sectors.

  • News

    BidRoute launches to improve the buy route

    2007-06-05T15:26:48Z

    [16:26 CEST 05/06] EUROPE - A new trading platform for asset managers, which has the potential to break the stranglehold of the top brokerage firms for portfolio trades, could dramatically improve the quality of trading data fund managers present to clients.

  • News

    Differing regulations create funding pressures - OECD

    2007-05-11T11:53:23Z

    [12:53 CEST 11/05] EUROPE - Divergent pension regulation is triggering perceptions of a pension crisis according to a study prepared for the OECD by Risklab Germany.

  • Features

    Thinking for the future

    May 2007 (Magazine)

    Where does a pension fund get ideas about a new asset class? ABP Investments is asking its staff to think about new asset classes and has created an ‘innovation committee’ to assess them. Liam Kennedy reports

  • News

    K2 on acquisition trail after TA deal

    2007-03-29T16:01:01Z

    GLOBAL - K2, the US based fund of hedge funds business, is to search for European and Asian acquisition targets following a deal with TA Associates, which is to take a “substantial minority stake” in the business.

  • News

    Hedge Fund predicts “wave” of activist investment

    2007-03-12T15:49:00Z

    EUROPE - Europe should expect a “tsunami wave” of activist investment in the coming decade, according to Florian Homm, CIO of the hedge fund group Absolute Capital Management (ACM).

  • News

    Multinationals mull Belgium as pan-European centre

    2007-03-07T15:44:44Z

    BELGIUM - Three multinationals are looking to establish an OFP, Belgium’s new cross-border pension vehicle, according to Eddy Wymeersch, chairman of the country’s Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (CBFA).

  • News

    Improving equity performance helps AGI asset growth

    2007-02-27T16:22:47Z

    EUROPE – Allianz Global Investors (AGI) today announced an increase in third party assets under management of 5.2% for 2006, amounting to €37bn.