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US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... appointed by Nikko Asset Management as a sub-adviser to provide a customised international equities strategy to Japanese pension funds. INTECH will provide the firm's Kokusai Strategy which uses the MSCI Kokusai Index as a benchmark and aims to achieve ...

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 ...

Instos reverse traction in alternatives

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Pension funds' investments in alternatives have shrunk 1 per cent to $1 trillion in 2008 - a stark contrast to the 40 per cent growth from 2007, new research shows. According to global research by Watson Wyatt in conjunction with the Financial Times ...

State Street wins Italian pension client

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... number of investment services. PensPlan provides risk management, manager selection and asset liability modelling to pension funds and institutional investors in Italy. State Street's Milan based office will provide the firm with custody services and ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... inquiries and reviews have been savagely attacked by sections of the superannuation lobby. The OECD said Australian pension funds may also be prone to excessive systemic risks because of their high weightings to equities in their asset allocation str ...

Northern Trust targets EMEA pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The practice includes a dedicated team that will provide the region's pension funds with advice across investments, government and regulatory issues and risk management. The firm already provides investment ...

State Street wins $8b Rio mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... East and Africa. State Street provides investment services for pension assets globally, including 10 of the largest pension funds worldwide. The firm has $11.3 trillion in assets under custody and $1.4 trillion in assets under management at March 31 ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, is a good point to start the process. "Valuing pension funds on spot market valuations during economic turmoil is highly misleading. Over the last year stock markets have tumbled and ...

Fee disclosure for intermediaries: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... kickbacks in "pay-to-play" arrangements to help their investment firm clients obtain capital commitments from public pension funds. "Any such arrangement is obviously unacceptable, "said Joseph Dear, CalPERS chief investment officer. "Under-the-table ...