Markets – Page 194
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German institutions eye structured, private equity
GERMANY – Pension funds and insurers are planning more investment in alternatives this year and next, but will only award mandates for structured products and private equity, according to a new survey by German consultant Heissmann.
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SWIP wins rare AMF Pension mandate
SWEDEN – The SEK245bn (€26bn) Swedish fund AMF Pension has awarded a European small-cap mandate to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership worth approximately SEK150m.
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Europe’s investors ‘in love’ with finance stocks
EUROPE – European investors have a “love affair with finance stocks” says Merrill Lynch Investment Manager’s David Bowers, following the firm’s September fund manager survey.
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CEE: Exceptional growth
CENTRAL EUROPE - Central and Eastern Europe's second-pillar pension funds recorded exceptional year-on-year growth in 2005, well ahead of the rise in numbers of clients, despite their relatively conservative investment strategies. There have also been relatively few changes in the rankings compared with 2004. There were no changes in the ...
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Netherlands: Interesting times
NETHERLANDS - There's an old Chinese curse that says 'may you live in interesting times'. It might have been coined for the Dutch pensions industry. "All times are interesting, especially for Dutch pension funds," says Jeroen Steenvoorden, director of pension fund for self-employed medical specialists SPMS. "There is so much ...
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UK: General trend into bonds
UK - Recent years have seen a general trend within the UK pensions industry from equities into bonds, according to Joanne Segars, incoming chief executive at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).
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Germany: Book reserves still common
GERMANY - Although there are five different ways of creating an occupational pension the most common, with more than 50% of all pension assets and totalling around €400bn, is still through the book reserves of the employer, according to Klaus Stiefermann, general manager of the Association of Company Pension Schemes ...
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IPE-QUEST: Three new fixed income searches
SWITZERLAND – There are three new fixed income searches from Swiss institutional investors on the IPE-Quest system.
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USS drops GSAM and LGIM
UK – The £22bn (€32.6bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme has dropped Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and Legal & General Investment Management as external managers to take more assets in-house.
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Bexley, Lincolnshire name new managers
UK – The Bexley and Lincolnshire local authority pension funds have separately named new asset managers.
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Denmark’s Lærernes hires PanAgora for US mid-caps
DENMARK – The DKK20bn (€2.7bn) Danish pension fund Lærernes Pension (Teachers’ Pension and Life) has appointed PanAgora Asset Management for $50m (€36.4m) in US mid-cap equities.
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JP Morgan ousts Wellington at Merseyside
UK - The £3.8bn (€5.5bn) Merseyside Pension Fund has appointed JP Morgan Asset Management for its newly created £100m European (ex-UK) equities mandate.
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Henderson posts €4.3bn institutional outflow
UK – Henderson Global Investors had a £2.9bn (€4.3bn) outflow of institutional assets in the first half of 2006, the company said in its first-half report.
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Rentokil details asset revamp
UK – Pest control firm Rentokil Initial, which is the process of closing its defined benefit pension fund, has revealed more details about the scheme’s switch into bonds.
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IPE-QUEST: Three new searches on system
GLOBAL – There are three new searches by European pension funds for euro zone debt, pan-European equities and currency alpha on the IPE-Quest system.
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Clywd scheme goes unconstrained
UK – The £800m (€1.2bn) Flintshire County Council Clwyd Pension Fund has tendered a total of £145m in unconstrained fixed income and equities.
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SWIP names Davidson global bond chief
UK – Rod Davidson has been appointed as Scottish Widows Investment Partnership’s new global head of fixed income, the company said today.
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UBS institutional AUM assets slip €9.5bn
SWITZERLAND – Institutional assets under management at UBS Global Asset Management slipped by CHF15bn (€9.5bn), or 3%, in the second quarter to CHF451bn due to currency and market effects.
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CalPERS names bond, real estate managers
US – California’s $205bn (€160bn) public pension giant CalPERS has named 16 managers for international fixed income, real estate equities and US global equities.
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Dresdner offers schemes new volatility funds
EUROPE – Dresdner is to launch two equity volatility funds aimed at pension funds and insurance companies next month.
