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BGI builds on B&CE mandate with £150m top-up
UK – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has been selected to run an additional £150m (€243.5m) overseas equities and bonds mandate for the £650m defined benefit (DB) pension plan for the Building & Civil Engineering Benefits Scheme (B&CE)....
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Rothschild names new institutional client manager
UK – Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Marion Colverd as manager of its institutional client service team in London.
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AXA IM creates new alternative assets division
UK/FRANCE - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has created a new structured and alternative investment management (SAIM) division within the firm to house its structured and hedge fund businesses....
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Dutch construction fund splits into three schemes
NETHERLANDS – The NLG500m pension fund for construction related group, NBM Amstelland, is to divide into three different schemes after the company was split up, in a move that has put a number of investment management and administration mandates up for grabs in the Dutch market....
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Credit Suisse buys SLC Asset Management
UK - Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has acquired SLC Asset Management Group (SLCAM), the UK asset management subsidiary of Sun Life Financial of Canada, in a deal that will add around £11bn to CSAM’s assets under management.....
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VKG awards property assets to Lend Lease
BELGIUM – The e550m Brussels-based VKG/CPM pension fund is to hire Australian property group Lend Lease Houlihan Rovers (LHR) to an e45m property mandate split between Europe and the US....
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Towers poaches two from rival William M.Mercer
UK – Benefits consultancy firm, Towers Perrin, has poached two business development consultants, Martin Good and Jason Kenny, from rival consultants William M. Mercer....
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NLG25bn Dutch PMI fund in huge asset transfer
NETHERLANDS – The NLG25bn (e11.3bn) Dutch metal and engineering workers’ pension fund, Bedrijfspensioenfonds voor de Metaalindustrie (PMI), has transferred around NLG17.5bn in assets to Eureko-owned fund manager F&C in London and is seeking two new US index managers to manage approximately NLG4bn in assets....
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Lasalle launches e500m European property fund
EUROPE – Lasalle Investment Management (LIM)has launched its new €500m Euro Growth II fund, a real estate investment fund to be invested in properties across Western Europe....
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State Street hires new head of investor relations
State Street Corporation has appointed S. Kelley MacDonald senior vice president and head of investor relations....
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Pension fund property exposure up in Q2
UK – Insurance companies and pension funds increased their exposure to commercial property in the second quarter of this year, according to DTZ Research reporting on data published by National Statistics (NS), the UK’s official government statistical research body....
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Institutions get global real estate index
GLOBAL – A new global real estate index which favours institutional investors is to be launched next month by the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and Euronext....
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Property markets count cost of NY terrorist attack
US SPECIAL – Direct losses to downtown Manhattan’s real estate market in the recent terrorist attack on New York could be as much as US$10bn (€11bn), claims Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL).
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Half of Europe's schemes hit by US tragedy
Almost 50% of European pensions funds say they have experienced a notable impact on their fund assets in the light of the terrorist attacks in the US last week and the subsequent fallout of global markets, according to a survey by IPE-Newsline...
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Lasalle bolsters European investment teams
FRANCE/GERMANY – Lasalle Investment Management has strengthened its European investment team with top-level appointments in its French and German offices....
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JP Morgan lands £4.2bn Prudential fund custody
UK – JP Morgan Investor Services Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has been appointed as global custodian to the £4.2bn (€6.7bn) Prudential Staff Pension Scheme (PSPS)....
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Roberts is new COO at Jones Lang Lasalle
UK/US – Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) has appointed Peter Roberts as the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer....
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Friends First Asset Management fuses with F&C
IRELAND – European asset management group F&C is to integrate the money management business of Irish financial group Friends First into its own operations, in a further bid to consolidate the investment management strands of its insurance firm parent Eureko, which bought F&C in May this year.....
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ABP appoints Achmea director as CIO for equities
NETHERLANDS - Jan Straatman, the former director of asset management (CIO) at Achmea Global Investors has been appointed as chief investment officer for equities with ABP Investments in Amsterdam, the investment arm of the e150bn Dutch pension fund....
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Rate cuts fail to ignite equity marts, says FTSE
Interest rate cuts from the world's central banks failed to bolster global equity markets in August, according to figures compiled by FTSE....