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UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds ...

State Street continues British Airways mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
State Street has won a mandate to continue servicing the British Airways Pension Trustees's 14 (A$23) billion UK pension fund. State Street will provide British Airways with custody, accounting, performance measurement, securities lending, trade matching ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
Australian fund managers with international equities expertise should pay attention to three UK pension funds, which are looking to dish out more than $400 million in international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is ...

BNY Mellon to buy Insight

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... Through the development of its specialist investment capabilities, Insight Investment is now the third largest manager of UK pension funds. Insight Investment was the fastest growing UK institutional asset manager with strong growth in assets under management ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
UK pension funds and fund managers risk falling foul of their regulators if they don't "mandate" the companies they invest in to focus on long-term shareholder value, according to the Walker Review. The review, an independent audit of corporate governance ...

UK pensions demand more face time with fundies

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
A survey of UK workplace pension funds representing $400 billion in assets found pension funds are putting more fund managers on a "regular performance review". The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which 1,200 pension funds and $1.6 trillion ...

State Street wins $8b Rio mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... Tinto with custody, fund accounting, securities lending and investment analytics services for its Canadian, US and UK pension schemes. The services will be provided from State Street's operations in London and Montreal. "State Street's ability to service ...

Russell tops transition manager awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Russell Investments has been named the Transition Management Provider of the Year at the recent UK Pension Awards and won top rankings in the annual surveys conducted by PLANSPONSOR and Global Investor magazines. Russell was ranked "Best in Class" by ...

UK pensions turn to alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
UK pension funds are increasingly diversifying into hedge funds, global tactical asset allocation (GTAA) and active currency strategies, according to a Mercer survey. The firm's European Asset Allocation Survey found UK pension fund allocations to equity ...

Long-only turmoil pushes investors to hedge funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... market melt-down. Supporting Young's upbeat assessment for the sector, the Financial Times recently reported that "The [UK pension fund] industry intends to continue cutting its exposure to equities to free cash to invest in alternatives such as hedge ...