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PGGM commits €250m to Madeline Albright fund
NETHERLANDS – The €81bn Dutch pension fund PGGM has helped to more than triple the assets of Albright Capital Management, an investment firm chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
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Invesco and Black Rock win builders' fund mandates
UK – The £700m (€1.065bn) Building & Civil Engineering Benefits Scheme (B&CE) has awarded Invesco Perpetual with a £70m absolute return UK equity mandate recently.
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Strathclyde appoints four for global equity
UK – Strathclyde, the £8.9bn (€13.27bn) Glasgow City Council pension fund, has appointed AllianceBernstein, Invesco Perpetual, Edinburgh Partners and Lazard to run an unconstrained global equity mandate.
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€1.2bn Southwark pension fund in portfolio overhaul
UK – The £780m (€1.2bn) Southwark pension fund has appointed Alliance Bernstein and Newton Investment Management as complementary global equity managers. This is part of a major overhaul of the fund’s investment structure.
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Fidelity wants 20% annual growth in fast changing German market
GERMANY – Klaus Mössle, head of institutional business at the German arm of Fidelity Investments, has reaffirmed his ambitious goal of growing that business by 20-30% annually.
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Danish pension fund in high yield manager search
DENMARK – The DKK 22.9bn (€3bn) Danish Teachers' Pension and Life (Lærernes Pension) pension fund is looking for a US high yield manager via IPE-Quest for a mandate in excess of DKK 285m.
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SSGA wins €151m mandate from Denmark’s PKA (updated)
DENMARK – The Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) has awarded a $200m (€151m) active equity mandate to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA).
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Unicredit fund appoints Robeco for fixed income brief
ITALY – The pension fund of Italian banking giant UniCredit has awarded Robeco Asset Management with a €40m (£27m) fixed income quantitative active duration mandate, it appeared today.
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€5bn in Italian TFR money looking for managers
ITALY – Under the new law on the severance pay (TFR) an estimated €5bn is to flow into private pension funds.
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Dutch funds return to equities - DNB
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds invest more in equities now than they did during the internet boom, according to a study by Dutch pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).
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European institutions ‘uneasy’ about bond trading
EUROPE – European institutions are becoming uneasy about developments in the fixed-income market – fearing hedge funds are taking too much of dealers’ attention, according to Greenwich Associates.
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Dutch doctors award €100m European small-caps
NETHERLANDS – The €12bn Dutch Doctors Pension Fund has awarded Munros Capital Management with a €100m European small-cap equities mandate.
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Janus’ Intech arm wins $600m Dutch brief
NETHERLANDS – PGB, the €9bn Dutch pension fund for the printing industry, has awarded Intech a $600m (€459m) US enhanced equity mandate, the firm announced today.
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IPE-QUEST: Multi-manager tenders global equities
EUROPE – A continental European multi-management firm has tendered $100m (€76.4m) in enhanced global equities via IPE-Quest.
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UBS, Aberdeen under review in Waltham revamp
UK – The £430m (€641m) London Borough of Waltham Forest pension fund is completely overhauling its investment strategy in a move from multi-asset to specialist managers.
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USS seeks to strengthen UK equities team
UK – The £26bn (€38.5bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme is looking for a UK smaller companies portfolio manager to strengthen its UK equities team.
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Dorset reviews Prudential M&G
UK – Prudential M&G has come under review at the €1.432bn (£966m) Dorset County Council pension scheme.
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John Lewis awards Japan equities to JP Morgan
UK – The £1.7bn (€2.5bn) John Lewis Partnership pension fund has awarded JP Morgan Asset Management a £50m Japanese active equities mandate.
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IPE-QUEST: Danish fund tenders European high-yield
DENMARK – A Danish industry-wide pension fund has tendered €50m in pan-European active high-yield debt via IPE-Quest.
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Goldman Sachs AM gets $94bn in net inflows
GLOBAL – Goldman Sachs says it had a total of $94bn (€139.5bn) of net asset inflows into its asset management business in 2006.
