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Swansea goes specialist
[14:00 CEST 14-09] UK – The £900m (€1.3bn) City and County of Swansea pension fund is looking for up to 12 specialist managers, including hedge fund and private equity specialists, to manage some of its assets.
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PGGM takes on Citi's emerging market credit risk
[13:30 CEST 14-09] NETHERLANDS/UK – Major Dutch pension fund PGGM said today it has agreed to take on part of the risk of financial group Citi’s portfolio of emerging market credit exposures.
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Hertfordshire issues global equities tender
[13:00 CEST 13-09] UK – The £2bn (€3bn) Hertfordshire County Council pension fund is seeking to change its equity weighting by issuing a new £200m global mandate tender.
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Mercer to offer diversified growth fund
[13:00 CEST 13-09] EUROPE – Mercer is to launch its diversified alpha fund (DAF), its first fund under the new brand. The group was known as Mercer Global Investments until earlier this week.
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Market changed public pensions' strategies - Fidelity
[11:00 CEST 13-09] UK- Recent stock market turbulence may have persuaded local authority pension funds to shift more asset allocation into alternatives, suggests a survey by Fidelity International.
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Large managers disappoint French funds
[16:30 CEST 12-09] FRANCE – Large asset management companies lost credibility with French pension funds during the sub-prime lending crisis, according to a study.
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IPE-QUEST: Swiss bond and equity mandates
[11:00 CEST 12-09] SWITZERLAND - Swiss pension funds are looking for investment managers to handle high yield bond and global equity mandates, using IPE-Quest.
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Fortis hires CSR experts
[15:30 CEST 06-09] GLOBAL – Banking and insurance group Fortis has created a corporate social responsibility (CSR) advisory board made up of seven international experts.
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Austrian funds defend performance
[16:15 CEST 03-09] AUSTRIA – Pensionskassen should have put more money into equities last year in order to get better results, consulting firm Mercer has suggested.
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Review delivers SLI higher Pensions Trust
[11:00 CEST 29-08] UK – Standard Life Investments has been awarded an expanded remit to manage fixed income investments for the Pensions Trust.
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Nordic pension funds predict alternatives outsourcing
[15:00 CEST 28-08] EUROPE – Nordic pension funds increasingly expect to outsource the management of alternative investments to third parties but some local investments may move more in-house, according to a study conducted by Kirstein Finansrådgivning.
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Lower correlation eyed as Irish funding holds
[13:00 CEST 24-08] EUROPE – Irish pension funds have proved go be more resilient to recent market turmoil than anticipated, research has revealed.
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Final deal agreed on Greek scandal bond
[13:00 CEST 24-08] GREECE – Four Greek state pension funds have reached a final buy-back agreement with US investment bank JP Morgan and hedge fund North Asset Management to reverse a disputed bond deal.
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'Perceived risk' makes EMEA interesting - Fidelity
[16:00 CEST 23-08] GLOBAL – The Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) investment region is set for a massive growth and currently 'perceived risk' still adds to the discount for stock purchases, Fidelity has suggested.
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Welsh council scouts global equity manager
[16:30 EST 22-08] UK – The Welsh £1.26bn (€1.86bn) Rhondda Cynon Taf local authority pension scheme is scouting global equity investment managers for a £215m mandate.
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Northamptonshire forays into overseas equities
[16:15 CEST 22-08] UK – The £1.1bn Northamptonshire County Council pension fund is looking for one or more managers for a new £200m overseas equity portoflio.
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EM pension funds mature earlier - DB
[16:45 CEST 21-08] GLOBAL – Pension funds in emerging markets countries are growing rapidly but are restricted in growth compared with their counterparts in developed markets because they have smaller equity markets, Deutsche Bank has found.
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IPE-QUEST: $20m Gibraltar mandate
[11:30 CEST 20-08] GIBRALTAR – A pension fund in Gibraltar is searching for a multi-asset manager using IPE-Quest.
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JP Morgan denies bond buy-back has stalled
[16:30 CEST 17-08] GREECE – Investment bank JP Morgan has denied claims its offer to buy back of the scandal-ridden €280m Greek government bond has reached an impasse.
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LPFA to reform SRI policy
[16:00 CEST 16-08] UK – The £3.6bn (€5.3bn) London Pension Fund Authority (LPFA) is looking into changes to its socially responsible investment strategy (SRI).
