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August
The credit crisis exposed serious systemic flaws in the processes and business models of the credit rating agencies. Since then, the agencies have undergone reforms, driven internally and now from the regulators too. So, what has changed?
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Taiwan’s Labour Pension Fund has awarded $750 million worth of global emerging-market equity mandates
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The pension scheme of London University has appointed Kevin Wade as its investment chief
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The North Yorkshire County Council pension scheme has dismissed ING Real Estate Select
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Moody’s data reveals the extent of manager support for money market funds, and especially during the height of the 2007-2009 financial crisis
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London Borough of Redbridge Pension Fund is seeking equity managers
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Rabobank Pensioenfonds has withdrawn over $500 million from the fund of hedge funds sector
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July
Taiwan’s Public Service Pension Fund has awarded mandates worth $930 million
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The East Sussex County Council Pension Fund has appointed five firms to manage a total of $910 million in various strategies
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June
The Avon Pension Fund is looking for managers to run a specialist £3.65 billion portfolio
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US mutual fund investments are likely to ease off this year, says a study by consultant Financial Research Corp.
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The global mandates round-up features some of the biggest mandates completed over the past month
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New Mexico State Investment Council has terminated three active equity managers
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May
CalPERS wants to introduce a more nimble asset allocation policy
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Saudi Arabia is hoping to attract $600 billion from local and international private investors by 2020
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Fondo Cometa has awarded nine mandates and renewed the contracts of three firms
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China’s National Council for Social Security Fund has selected Newton Investment Management to run an active European equity mandate
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Standard Life Investments has been awarded a £140m UK corporate bond portfolio by the London Borough of Islington
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The Transport for London pension scheme has hired three global equity managers to manage a total of $1 billion
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QSuper has appointed National Australia Bank to offer master custody and investment reporting services
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Thailand’s Government Pension Fund is looking to raise its alternatives investment limit
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A study by Baring Asset Management shows IFA's views on the MENA region.
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Michigan State University is looking to unwind existing interest-rate swaps linked to its debt
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William Blair and Grantham Mayo van Otterloo have been awarded mandates worth $500 million by the New York Teachers' fund
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April
Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Vervoer has terminated Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s contract as its fiduciary manager
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The UK's Universities Superannuation Scheme has acquired a $135 million stake in Neuberger Berman Secondary Opportunities Fund II
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Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund is looking to award more than $2bn million worth of global fixed income mandates
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Mexico’s private pension funds have more than $1bn to commit to new sectors, such as infrastructure, real estate and private equity
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City of London Corporation will carry out an asset allocation review of its $2bn portfolio
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has cancelled its mandates managed by GMO
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The Railway Pension Scheme has recruited Insight Investment to help guard its portfolio against rising prices and interest rates
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The University of Texas Investment Management Company board has named Paul Foster as Chairman
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The Virginia Retirement System has allocated over $770 million in different asset classes
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LD Pensions, a Danish state fund, is looking to award mandates for over 70% of its portfolio
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The Texas Permanent School Fund will replace one of its five funds of hedge funds managers, Goldman Sachs
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is investing more in higher-risk, higher-return hedge funds and private equity
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Taiwan’s Labour Pension Fund is seeking managers for three emerging market equity mandates
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The International Finance Corporation will form an alliance with sovereign wealth and pension funds to launch an $800 million fund
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China Investment Corp has had to cut by half the funding it is requesting from the government
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March
State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corporation today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index for March 2010.
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Legg Mason affiliate, Batterymarch Financial Management, believes emerging markets have excellent economic staying power and that valuations show no signs of an emerging markets bubble.
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Fondo Cometa has hired two managers for the Sicurezza sub-fund
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has called on the top 58 US companies in its investment portfolio to adopt majority voting
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The Dutch bakers' pension fund has recruited Lombard Odier as fiduciary manager
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Tasmania's superannuation fund has ended Barclays Global Investors' mandate
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South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation chief executive is stepping down
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AP2 has awarded a $1.6 billion global credit mandate to five managers
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Trustees of Chicago Policemen’s Annuity & Benefit Fund have approved the appointment of four transition managers
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Asset Super has reappointed National Australia Bank’s asset servicing unit as custodian
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Thailand’s Government Pension Fund is planning to expand its investments into commodities, global private equities and real estate
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Florida State Board of Administration is conducting an asset/liability study, which may raise its international equity and alternatives allocations
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The Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System is seeking a firm to offer master trustee, master custodian and securities lending services
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Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has been given $31.6 billion worth of Insight assets to manage
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The New York State Common Retirement Fund has terminated three equity managers, accounting for a total of $864 million
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State Street Global Advisors and BlackRock Institutional Trust have won two Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation mandates
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Citigroup’s private bank and China Resources Group have launched two real estate funds
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Pension fund trustees are increasingly seeking to be good owners of the companies they invest in to promote their long-term value
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Masraf Al Rayan has launched a Shari'a-compliant value fund to invest in GCC listed equities
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Sovereign wealth funds gradually regained their appetite for foreign investments in 2009
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February
Isle of Wight Council Pension Fund has awarded two mandates to Newton Investment Management and Majedie Asset Management
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New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association, Santa Fe, is to seek three active equity managers
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The California teachers' fund will invest $100 million in a Bank of America Merrill Lynch private equity fund
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China Investment Corporation to commit $1.5 billion to the private equity secondary market through custom accounts
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A Milwaukee retirement fund has awarded $180 million long/short equity hedge funds of funds mandates
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Harvard University endowment is planning to sell a portion of its $5 billion real estate portfolio
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Korea Investment Corporation is to boost its allocations to alternative investments
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The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management board is to invest $1 billion in real estate
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New Mexico Public Employees’ Retirement Association will seek active mid-cap value and growth managers
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Illinois State Universities Retirement System is seeking managers to run its entire fixed-income portfolio
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Taiwan’s Public Service Pension Fund has awarded four global equity mandates worth $900 million
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The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System is planning to allocate over $400 million in real estate and private equity
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The Fort Worth Employees’ Retirement Fund is seeking domestic equity managers to run growth portfolios
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Merseyside pension fund is looking to award $800 million worth of Far East and emerging market equity mandates
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January
A Pennsylvania scheme will allocate $1 billion in new investment strategies
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The San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System will retain Metropolitan West as a bond manager
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The University Superannuation Scheme is looking to invest $2.27 billion in fixed income
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The CalSTRS may be making changes to its global equities strategy
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Mellon Capital steps in as Ohio Bureau changes investment strategy
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Taiwan’s Public Service Pension Fund has short-listed candidates for two global equity mandates
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A Californian pension scheme has hired Waddell & Reed Asset Management to run a large-cap growth equity mandate
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Reliance Capital is in talks with Malaysia to manage $2.5 billion of public and government funds
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Harvard University has appointed Neil Mason as chief risk officer
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Legalsuper has restructured its investment portfolio, terminating 17 fund managers and hiring five.
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3i, a UK-based private equity firm, is looking to set up a $1.6 billion-plus growth capital fund, as part of an effort to step up its investments rate in 2010
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The Fresno County Employees’ Retirement Association is modifying its bond portfolio to remove global allocation
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The main victim of the Dubai debt crisis has been the reputation of quasi-government debt, according to the majority of Global Investor / isf website readers
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London Borough of Newham Pension Fund has awarded Morgan Stanley with a $96 million mandate
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British pension funds managed to recoup most of their 2008 losses last year, helped by strong performances in equity markets
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Fonds de Reserve pour Retraites, the French sovereign fund, has terminated Dexia Asset Management's SRI mandate
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The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois is seeking a manager to run a Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities mandate
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US pension plan funded status improves but market volatility remains a concern in avoiding funding erosion in 2010
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China has awarded $1.5 billion of State Administration of Foreign Exchange quotas to two asset managers
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CDC Group has announced new commitments to invest over $100m in two private equity funds focused on sub-Saharan Africa.