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December
Deutsche Bank has rolled out 10 new db x-trackers equity ETFs on the London Stock Exchange
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Bjarne Graven Larsen has left one of Europe's largest pension funds to run an investment bank
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To avoid criminal charges Deutsche Bank will pay $553m to the US government
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The outlook for 2011 is positive for global equities and other risk assets, despite the challenges of inflation, the Euro crisis and recovering equity markets, according BlackRock
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Private equity firm, Montagu, has raised one of the biggest buyout funds in Europe since the financial crisis
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Van Eck Global is planning to launch a new equity fund focused on South American countries
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Westscheme Superannuation has revamped its Australian equities portfolio, ending its mandates with BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors
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Blackstone Group has raised $15 billion for a buyout fund, with many investors coming from Latin America, the Middle East, China and East Asia
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Apax Partners is planning to launch a new $14.46 billion-plus fund upon completion of an acquisition
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The Credit Suisse prime services business has emerged like no other due to the timing of its prime services launch, good hires and a selective approach with new clients. Shawn Sullivan, head of prime services flow trading tells what is next for the bank.
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Florida State Board of Administration has invited five specialty fixed-income managers to run $1.4 billion in unusual market securities
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In Securities Finance Asia Pacific’s inaugural meet the team, we profile one of the most recognised and experienced groups in the region. Stephen Howard, Callum Pritchard and Jeffrey Brewer discuss opportunities going forward
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Rising incomes, changing demographics, a high savings rate, and the changing psychology of Asian consumers could result in a consumption boom in Asia, according to a BNY Mellon report
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An investor's demand for a F&C Asset Management shareholder meeting could result in the replacement of the firm’s chairman
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Lexington Partners is acquiring a portfolio of limited partnership interests from subsidiaries of Lloyds Banking Group
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European fixed income fund managers will continue to be wary of the periphery in 2011, says Standard & Poor’s Fund Services in its latest sector review
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Goldman Sachs’ proprietary trading desk head, Morgan Sze, is hoping to raise what is expected to be the largest hedge fund since the financial crisis
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Loomis, Sayles & Company has launched a new global absolute return-oriented fixed income strategy fund
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Omega ATS has announced that fixed income instruments are to be traded publicly in Canada, beginning with government issues
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Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has launched a set of services in offshore Chinese Yuan
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Most Europeans plan to increase their allocation to absolute return strategies and UCITS will become increasingly important, says an Aviva Investors survey
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MSCI, the US investment decision support tools provider, has launched a set of equity portfolio management tools to help institutional investors better manage their equity portfolios
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Barclays UK Retirement Fund is creating its own asset management unit to accelerate investment decision-making
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Swedish pension fund has formed a real estate firm to manage the residential properties portfolio it will be acquiring
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Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management, Boston, has pulled $1.1 billion mandate from BlackRock
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Peru is planning to use its foreign reserves to create a sovereign wealth fund
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Global Investor /isf profiles Nazem Fawwaz Al Kudsi, the chief executive of InvestAD
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November
The Merseyside Pension Fund has adopted a new strategic asset allocation
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Mauritius is looking to create a $500 million sovereign wealth fund
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Merseyside Pension Fund has decided to substantially increase its allocation to Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company
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French reserve fund Fonds de Reserve pour les Retraites has dropped BlackRock
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Sweden’s $30bn national fund has restructured its team of regional corporate bond managers
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State of Wisconsin Investment Board is planning to add about $2.8 billion to internal management in 2011
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California State Teachers’ Retirement System will invest $150 million in commodities
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The $220bn California Public Employees’ Retirement System is investing $500 million in environment-friendly companies
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California Public Employees’ Retirement System is considering boosting its risk portfolio
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CalPERS has combined its private and public equities in a new classification
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Tyne & Wear Pension Fund has appointed a new set of managers to handle a total of $2.09 billion
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Merseyside Pension Fund, a UK pension scheme, has put PAAMCO’s appointment as a hedge fund consultant on hold
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The NSW Local Government Super has identified a preferred active currency manager
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Railpen, the UK investment manager for Railways Pension Trustee Company, has appointed Schroder NewFinance Capital, to manage a mandate for its commodity portfolio.
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October
Edinburgh Partners has won a Northern Ireland Local Government Officers’ Superannuation Committee global equity mandate
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France’s sovereign wealth fund, Fonds de reserve pour les retraites, has tendered its currency overlay mandate
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HamishWilson, the specialist pensions adviser, says that challenging economic conditions have brought about a new super-breed of Trustee
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The Merseyside Pension Fund has hired four asset managers for its Asia-Pacific and emerging market portfolios
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Chinese sovereign wealth fund has set up its first business unit outside mainland China in Hong Kong
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System investment committee has renewed the contracts of 24 managers in its global equity programme
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Kazakhstan is planning to launch a $400 million private equity fund with a group of Hong Kong billionaires
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The London Borough of Lambeth Pension Scheme has terminated three mandates due to underperformance
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Japan’s public pension fund is seeking fund managers
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Standish Mellon Asset Management has been awarded a $321 million European fixed income mandate
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CalPERS has replaced a consulting firm as part of its ongoing review of its private equity programme and investment partners
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Jean-Pierre Steiner, chief executive of Nestlé Capital Advisers, has stepped down from his role
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Johan van der Ende, chief investment officer of PGGM Investments, a Dutch pension fund manager, is to leave
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Norway’s oil fund is adding infrastructure and private equity investments to its portfolio
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The Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering has selected F&C for interest-rate hedging
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September
The New York Employee Retirement System has terminated Breeden Capital Management
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The ARIA public sector scheme is tendering a master custody contract, Investment Technology reports
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Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association has approved a new asset allocation
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has appointed an associate director for public investments
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National Pension Service of Korea has awarded a $1bn mandate to Rockspring Property Investment Managers
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A Government Pension Scheme in London has awarded Northern Trust to provide global custody mandate
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A Dutch pension plan has awarded a $6.3 billion fiduciary portfolio mandate to BlackRock
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The Dutch province of Gelderland has handed an asset management mandate to ING Investment Management
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Legalsuper has ended three mandates totalling $62 million as part of a portfolio restructuring
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Leicestershire County Council has awarded Aegon Asset Management a $2.58 billion mandate
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ITB Pension Funds has terminated AXA Rosenberg as a quantitative fund manager
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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.