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Mandate roundup: IPE Quest, Oxfordshire County Council, Draka UK
European insurance company tenders $25m-40m value equity mandate, using IPE Quest.
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Oxfordshire seeks actuarial services
[16:35 CEST 10-06] UK – Oxfordshire County Council is seeking an actuary for its £796m (€925m) local government pension scheme.
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Oxford drops TAA over poor performance
[17:00 CET 13-02] UK – Oxfordshire County Council has confirmed its £913m (€1.03bn) pension fund has disinvested from the Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) strategy run by UBS following poor performance.
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Oxfordshire tenders £20m private equity
UK – The roughly £499m (€730m) Oxfordshire County Council Pension Fund is tendering a £20m investment management mandate to manage specialist private equity fund of funds.
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Oxford takes a look at custody
[16:00 CET 05-12] UK – Oxfordshire County Council is reviewing Abn Amro Mellon Global Securities Services as its pension fund custodian, according to a tender notice just issued.
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LGPS South West pool boosted by interest from Oxfordshire fund
Interest from £1.8bn Oxfordshire local authority fund would bring pool’s assets to more than £21bn
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Oxford appoints IFA and passive equity manager
[14:15 CET 12-02] UK – Oxfordshire County Council has appointed Peter Davies as the independent financial adviser to its £913m (€1.04bn) local authority pension fund and awarded Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) a 10-year specialist passive equity mandate.
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Oxford reviews TAA after poor performance
[16:00 CEST 09-04] UK – Oxfordshire County Council pension fund is to review its Tactical Asset Allocation(TAA) strategy, managed by UBS, and has asked the fund manager about the possibility of returning £575,000 (€720,820) in performance fees after performance "deteriorated".
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Mandate roundup: Foresight, Greensphere, BNY Mellon, NOW, PIC, AP7, Wellington
UK government commits £80m to specialists Foresight Group and Greensphere Capital.
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UK's Oxford Council tenders five mandates
UK – Oxfordshire County Council has put five mandates out to tender for management of its pension fund. The combined total of assets involved is 495 million pounds (772.5 million euros).
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Local council rejects Berkshire claims over failed scheme merger
Failure of tri-country scheme merger unrelated to separate local council agreements, says Buckinghamshire
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UK government schemes abandon merger after last-minute U-turn
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire cite LGPS consultation as reason for volte-face but continue discussions without Berkshire
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DeAM and Schroders ousted at Oxford council
UK – The 500 million pound (703 million euro) pension scheme of Oxfordshire County Council has replaced Deutsche Asset Management and Schroders with UBS, Baillie Gifford, Alliance Bernstein and Legal & General as part of a move to find better performance.
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Neighbouring UK councils consider £4bn pension fund merger
UK – Local authorities hopeful of support for plan that predates government merger consultation.
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UK roundup - Royal Mail, Wandsworth, Oxford and Powys
[16:15 CET 10-12] UK – Royal Mail has also revealed its pension deficit may have tripled in the last three years while three local authorities are making changes to their pension funds.
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PPF appoints Capita for data cleansing
[17:25 CEST 13-10] UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has appointed Capita Hartshead to carry out pension data cleansing and transition services.
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Jump in - the water's lovely
European institutional investors are catching up their US counterparts in using hedge funds as a risk diversifier. Although some pension funds, such as the ATP or Tapiola schemes in Denmark and Finland, respectively, are not investing in hedge funds, others are waiting for board approval, such as the Netherland’s Blue ...