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ABP appoints US quant manager to large cap brief
NETHERLANDS – The e150bn Heerlen based ABP pension fund has appointed US equity quant manager Advanced Investment Technologies (AIT) to manage a large cap core equities portfolio....
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Royal Trust wins huge $33bn custody mandate
Royal Trust Global Securities Services (GSS) has been awarded a huge $33bn (e36bn) global custody mandate by the Caymen Islands based triple A-rated specialist finance company, Sigma Finance Corporation.....
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Property grows as volatility rocks equity marts
GLOBAL- Property continues to grow as an asset class as volatility continues to impact adversely on equity markets and low interest rates make real estate more attractive, according to new research by DTZ.....
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Montgomery Oppenheimer is Irish top performer
IRELAND – Irish employee benefits and investments firm, Coyle Hamilton, has published the results of its group pension managed funds survey for the second quarter of 2001 with Montgomery Oppenheimer taking top slot on a five-year basis - returning an annualised 20.6%....
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PGGM fires up debate on Dutch Z-score system
NETHERLANDS – PGGM, the Zeist based NLG110bn (e50bn) Dutch superfund has publicly criticised aspects of the country’s Z-score system that tests the performance of industry-wide pension schemes, claiming that at worst it could lead to the disappearance of industry plans in Holland within thirty years.....
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Aberdeen Celexa to operate in three European bases
UK / NETHERLANDS / SWEDEN – Aberdeen Celexa Property Investors (ACPI), with €10bn of real estate assets under management and Europe’s largest real estate administrators, is the new name for the joint activities of Celexa Real Estate Investment Management Group (Celexa) and Aberdeen Property Investors (API)...
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Aon to launch multi-manager funds for UK
UK – Aon Consulting is to launch a new investment management company later this year, Aon Asset Management, which is expected to have between £500m (€815m) and £1bn (€1.6) in assets under management...
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Insinger acquires United Trust
NETHERLANDS / UK – Amsterdam based international banking group, Insinger de Beaufort, is to acquire London based United Trust Group...
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Aberdeen Celexa secures fourth pensions investor
UK – London based Aberdeen Celexa Property Investors has secured a fourth major pension fund investor in their £80m (€130m) UK residential partnership vehicle, Regent Residential Partnership (RRP).
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Smith & Nephew awards £120m multi-manager mandate
UK – Smith & Nephew, the London based international medical device development and marketing firm, has appointed Frank Russell to manage through its multi-manager funds a £120m (€195m) portion of Smith & Nephew’s £220m UK pension fund
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Dutch schemes invest in high yield property fund
UK/EUROPE – The io group and Axa Real Estate Investment Managers have announced the first closing of the €550m European Industrial Partnership fund...
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Schroders and Benchmark stage West End venture
UK – Schroder Property Investment Management and specialist UK property group Benchmark have established a new Jersey registered property fund – the West End of London Property Unit Trust (WELPUT) - with initial assets of £300m (€488m)....
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Portugal's e3bn reserve fund to start outsourcing
PORTUGAL – The e3bn Lisbon based Portuguese pension reserve fund, created in 1989 to plug the future hole in Portugal’s social security retirement payments, could outsource up to 20% of its assets to external managers by the end of the year....
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Survey reveals European traits on investment
LUXEMBOURG – A survey carried out by Crédit Agricole Indosuez Luxembourg looking at the values and beliefs of European investors, and whether culture influences financial decision making, reveals that that 38% of Europeans believe stocks are the best long term investment, with 43% of Germans saying that investing is fun. ...
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Altink to head Mellon's European corporate affairs
UK/EUROPE – Jan Altink has been appointed director of corporate affairs for Europe by Pittsburgh based Mellon Financial Corporation.
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£1.9bn Edinburgh fund drops DeAM for Blackrock
UK – The £1.9bn (e3.4bn) City of Edinburgh Council Lothian Pension Fund has pulled an approximately £150m European equities brief from Deutsche Asset Management and split the balance between Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) and Edinburgh based Blackrock....
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Belgacom reveals tender plans for e300m new assets
BELGIUM – The country’s largest pension fund, the e3.5bn Belgacom scheme, has revealed its tender proposals for the investment of up to e300m of new asset inflows into hedge funds, real estate and credits....
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UK £20bn electric fund in huge reorganisation
UK – The £20bn (e33.1bn) industry-wide occupational retirement plan for 26 electricity companies, Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS), has reorganised some £2.1bn of its assets....
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VKG shortlists four in e50m mandate search
BELGIUM – The e550m Brussels based VKG/CPM pension fund for doctors, dentists and pharmacists has shortlisted four managers, including two from the US, for an e45-50m property mandate....
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State Street/Itaú in Brazil institutional tie-up
BRAZIL/US – State Street has entered into an agreement with Brazil’s second largest private bank, São Paolo based Banco Itaú, in a bid to expand institutional investment services for clients of both companies, including pension funds, investment managers, insurance companies and multinational corporations.
