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Friends Provident benefits from extensive LDI exposure during crisis (14/11/2008) UK pension schemes grapple with different accounting and funding valuations (14/11/2008) bfinance survey: pension funds to review investment managers, slash equities (12/11/2008) Sweden’s PSA/PSF corporate pension fund mulls derivatives overlay (31/10/2008) Calpers holds on to asset allocation targets amid crisis (17/10/2008) Ontario Teachers’ activist portfolio faces volatile market (17/10/2008) Why applying Solvency II rules to European pension funds may be inappropriate (03/10/2008) Canada’s Torstar pension plan keeps bet on value amid ravaged financial sector (03/10/2008) Solvency not a favoured measure at University of Concordia’s pension fund (19/09/2008) VBV Pensionskasse awards property mandate (05/09/2008) University of Alberta hedges Canadian dollar (05/09/2008) Coats Viyella awards passive equities mandate (22/08/2008) Sweden’s AP7 awards hedge fund replication mandate to Goldman (22/08/2008) Fondazione ENPAM awards hedge fund mandate (25/07/2008) Pension fund association favours swap rate to discount liabilities (25/07/2008) ABP pensions and Calpers outperform, defending funding ratio in volatile market (25/07/2008) Vlaamse Gemeenschap Pensioensfond awards passive balanced mandates (11/07/2008) TIAA-CREF and ABP allocate to microfinance (11/07/2008) France’s Retirement Reserve Fund doubles indexing (11/07/2008) Somerset searches for active private equity fund-of-funds manager (27/06/2008) VBV Pensionkasse hedges equity exposure, buys emerging market debt (27/06/2008) The €3.4bn Saint Gallen pension fund accelerates with active indexing (27/06/2008) Hässleholms kommun awards Swedish equity mandate (13/06/2008) CTA pension vehicles favoured among German multinationals (13/06/2008) KLM pensions and PGGM take off with inflation-linked bonds (13/06/2008) The £370m Aggregate Industries plc Pension Plan awards F&C Asset Management (30/05/2008) Armenia to adopt mandatory pension investment guidelines (30/05/2008) Cardiff County Council and Vale of Glamorgan tender active currency mandate (16/05/2008) Chilean pension funds to sharply increase foreign investments (16/05/2008) Next Group awards £50m balanced equity mandate (13/05/2008) Private pensions : Estonia (30/04/2008) Nestlé Germany raises alarm bells on Solvency II (30/04/2008) Fonditel, manager of Spain’s giant Telefonica, hangs up on tactical asset allocation (16/04/2008) Private pensions in Spain (16/04/2008) The €370m Finnish Local Authority Investment Fund for the City of Espoo (05/04/2008) Irish pension assets suffer from high concentration to banks (05/04/2008) University Superannuation Scheme invests in hedge fund replication (24/03/2008) UK pension schemes face heightened risk (24/03/2008) Cash levels rise, equities drop in bfinance annual asset allocation survey (24/03/2008) Kosovo's pension scheme captures bright spot among developing economies (09/03/2008) UK corporate plan assets table (09/03/2008) bfinance exclusive: Marks & Spencer's £5.5bn pension fund keen to expand into real estate, hedge funds (09/03/2008) London Borough of Islington Pension hunts for active overseas managers (09/03/2008) Cornell backs up innovation with 26% returns and massive commitment to alternatives (24/02/2008) Private pensions in the United States (24/02/2008) Sweden's £18bn AP Fonden awards Japanese equity mandate (24/02/2008) Finland's Apteekkien Elakekassa awards £122m multi-asset mandate (10/02/2008) Private pensions in Finland (10/02/2008) Finland insurance giant Ilmarinen taps Nokia pensions (10/02/2008) The £1.8bn Surrey County Council awards global equity mandate (27/01/2008) European mandate survey: Italian pension funds boost asset manager searches (27/01/2008) Private pensions in Norway (13/01/2008) Telenor adjusts to new investment regulations in Norway (13/01/2008) Telemaco tendering management for €497m portfolio (13/01/2008) Italian negoziale pension fund awards balanced mandates (31/12/2007) Calpers opts for aggressive asset allocation favouring alternatives (31/12/2007) Arca Previdenza ready to shake-off regulatory shackles to invest in hedge funds (31/12/2007) Private pensions in Italy (23/12/2007) Foreign investment caps on Chinese insurers go up (09/12/2007) George Wimpey plc awards £120m active equity mandate (09/12/2007) Bernische Lehrerversicherungskasse awards bond and emerging market mandates (25/11/2007) Private pensions in the Netherlands (25/11/2007) Ahold Pensionfund reduces funding ratio volatility under new Dutch law (25/11/2007) Private pensions in Germany (11/11/2007) bfinance exclusive: hedge fund leader, NAEV emerges as innovative force among German pension schemes (11/11/2007) Laerernes Pensionkasse awards equity mandate (11/11/2007) The £580m London Borough of Lambeth awards bond mandate (28/10/2007) Ireland faces demographic challenges (28/10/2007) bfinance exclusive: Invested in short-term instruments, Volvo's pension fund plans drive into real estate (28/10/2007) Private pensions in Sweden (28/10/2007) Rhoddia Cynon awards £130m property mandate to ING (14/10/2007) Edmund Truell inches closer to gaining control of Telent's pension surplus (14/10/2007) Ireland's NPRF moves to minimise trading costs from commodity futures (14/10/2007) The £600mn Ernst & Young pension scheme tilts to active management (30/09/2007) Deloitte & Touche awards unconstrained mandate (30/09/2007) Ernst & Young awards commodities mandate (16/09/2007) How to lock in gains from an improved funding position: the case of the FTSE 100 (16/09/2007) Transaction costs of equity trades lower at Dutch pension fund ABP (16/09/2007) Global companies still face risks as pension deficits decline (16/09/2007) Suffolk County awards £400m curency overlay mandate (02/09/2007) bfinance exclusive: Austria's €2.5bn APK shorts Eurostoxx and S&P futures in volatile market (02/09/2007) Rank Group awards alternative and equity mandates (05/08/2007) UK occupational schemes see improvement in governance (05/08/2007) Tranche warfare: how exposed are pension funds to CDOs? (05/08/2007) France's FRR to award €250m small-cap equity mandates (22/07/2007) UK's Lothian Pension Fund adapts to volatility (22/07/2007) Future of bankrupt corporate pension assets debated (22/07/2007) Sweden's £14.8bn AP3 shortlists managers for GTAA mandate (08/07/2007) Pension funds selected for sustainable investing (08/07/2007) The $2.1b Devon County Council Pension Fund plans to invest in infrastructure (24/06/2007) CalPERS expands into emerging markets private equity (24/06/2007) France's Atomic Energy Commission awards high yield mandates (10/06/2007) In a first, Hounslow plans to invest in forestry (10/06/2007) Workplace pensions highly sought in UK (10/06/2007) Pensions Regulator outlines three-year plan (10/06/2007) Biffa Pension awards equity mandates to AllianceBernstein and Walter Scott (28/05/2007) CalPERS currency overlay chief outlines internal alpha program (28/05/2007) British Airways funding level soars as deficit is cut (28/05/2007) Deficits at UK Pension schemes slimming down (27/05/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: P&O awards high alpha mandate to PIMCO (13/05/2007) ABP to inject more cash into infrastructure to reach strategic target (13/05/2007) bfinance exclusive: Sweden's AP7 to enter emerging markets in historic portfolio revamp (13/05/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: Essex County awards currency mandates (29/04/2007) PGGM and ABP head to the bank in a case of successful shareholder activism (29/04/2007) Nestlé's sweet tooth for hedge funds gets sweeter (29/04/2007) Pioneers in pension pooling, Nestlé consolidates global pension assets (29/04/2007) Two weeks in Mandates: AHV Ausgleichsfonds is on the hunt for emerging market equities (15/04/2007) Dutch pensions benefit from rise in yields but risks grow warns central bank (15/04/2007) bfinance exclusive: Norway's petroleum fund's equity benchmark to increase 20% (15/04/2007) Sweden's AP1 unveils companies with troubled ethical standards (01/04/2007) Bond allocations of leading pension schemes reduced as funds warm to alternatives (01/04/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: Sweden's AP Fonden 7 awards active currency mandates (18/03/2007) AP3 blasts Swedish officials to overhaul pension laws restricting alternatives (18/03/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: The £1bn Warwickshire County Council awards fund of hedge funds (04/03/2007) ERAFP, the French civil servants scheme, takes a big leap into socially responsible investing (04/03/2007) Enel's pension assets set to spike dramatically thanks to Italian law (04/03/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates : Danish ATP fund hunts for hedge funds (18/02/2007) Pension fund profile: Kingfisher bolsters defences with cash injection and overlay (18/02/2007) bfinance exclusive: In a first, France's €32bn Retirement Reserve steps into emerging market equities (18/02/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: Environment Agency Pension Fund searches for a UK fixed income manager (04/02/2007) Country Series: Pensions in Iceland (04/02/2007) Dutch pension ABP hits jackpot in Equity Office buyout war (04/02/2007) CERN's maturing fund considers new measures to meet obligations (04/02/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: Middlesex Borough of Harrow awards currency overlay mandate (21/01/2007) Country Series : Pensions in Switzerland (21/01/2007) bfinance exclusive: Ireland's NPRF to invest in local venture capital funds (21/01/2007) Denmark pension system tops EU countries, Belgium and France suffer (21/01/2007) Kesko pension assets benefit from renting real estate to parent company (21/01/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: Italy's Unicredit awards fixed income mandate (07/01/2007) Strongest performer: Pension returns in Ireland outperform UK funds (07/01/2007) In pursuit of pure alpha, West Midlands initiates new position in currencies (07/01/2007) French Retirement Reserve selects AXA Private Equity to fill one of four lots (07/01/2007) Two Weeks in Mandates: Holland's PGB pension hires Altis to assess equity managers (26/12/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Belgium (26/12/2006) Holland's PMT will add to alternatives: coverage ratio surges to seven-year high (26/12/2006) Pensioenfonds Vervoer changes fiduciary structure, shifts to multiple managers (26/12/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Swedish AP funds award socially responsible tender to GES (10/12/2006) CalPERS picks French money manager for the first time (10/12/2006) bfinance exclusive: British Telecom and Hermes expand into private equity (10/12/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Spain (10/12/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Warwickshire County Council tenders £40 million (26/11/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Italy (26/11/2006) Wellcome Trust, the largest UK charity, warms up to hedge funds (26/11/2006) bfinance exclusive: CalPERS CIO describes fund's strategic shift into commodities (26/11/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Flintshire searching for hedge funds with portable alpha (12/11/2006) Country Series: UK Pensions (12/11/2006) French Retirement Reserve fires U.S. mid-caps asset manager (12/11/2006) Infrastructure investments on the rise at Dutch pension giant ABP (12/11/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Cornwall selects Mellon and Millennium (29/10/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Germany (29/10/2006) Inside a British Airways pension portfolio (29/10/2006) German pensions light on derivatives and currency overlays (29/10/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: PME invests in forestry (15/10/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Austria (15/10/2006) Forecasting Hurricanes? EAI to the rescue (15/10/2006) AP3 adds fundamental index to portfolio (15/10/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Horeca & Catering selects SPF Beheer (01/10/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Finland (01/10/2006) North American and European investor confidence converging (01/10/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: More property for the NPRF (17/09/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Sweden (17/09/2006) European corporate pensions: Funding ratio is up in spite of a lower discount rate (17/09/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Charities Aid Foundation switching managers (03/09/2006) ATP returns inadvertently boosted by its hedging portfolio (03/09/2006) Large Scandinavian pension funds yield flat returns in the first half of the year (03/09/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: First socially responsible investment for the Agirc Arrco Federation (30/07/2006) Investor Profile: France's Groupe Mornay seeks to internalise value (30/07/2006) Country Series: Pensions in France (30/07/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Denmark's Nykredit selects Axa Rosenberg (16/07/2006) Country Series: Pensions in The Netherlands (16/07/2006) Country Series: Pensions in Denmark (16/07/2006) AP2 switches part of its portfolio to fundamental indexation (16/07/2006) Investor Profile: "Intriguing" alternatives do not seduce The Blue Sky Group (16/07/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: the Port of London Authority Pension Fund picks Invesco Perpetual (02/07/2006) Investor Profile: from scratch to billions, Denmark's Industriens Pension (02/07/2006) Investors wary of increasingly leveraged buyout funds (02/07/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: AP1 appoints private equity managers (18/06/2006) LDI strategies surf the regulatory wave (18/06/2006) Investor Profile: ESPA Financial Advisors and VBV, the Austrian pension fund, open to the outside world (18/06/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Five new mandates for Norway's Government Pension Fund (04/06/2006) Investor Profile: Towards 10% in alternatives for Finland's State Pension Fund (04/06/2006) Germany's largest industry-wide pension scheme joins the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (04/06/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: more currency mandates (14/05/2006) Currency hedging gaining ground among investors (14/05/2006) Quebec's institutional giant expects lower returns (14/05/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Germany's BVK selects SSGA (01/05/2006) Large institutional investors jump onto the United Nations SRI bandwagon (01/05/2006) FTSE 100 companies strong enough to fix their pension deficit (01/05/2006) European investor confidence on the way up (01/05/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise taps Storebrand (17/04/2006) Exclusive bfinance / Fund management fees relatively stable year to year (17/04/2006) Calls for tenders: European investors prefer their co-nationals (17/04/2006) Performance of large European pension funds in 2005 even better than 2004 (17/04/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Mistra, once again ethical (02/04/2006) Investors are more confident (02/04/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: New briefs at Northumberland and Lothian (19/03/2006) Investor Profile: PME Metalektro generates high returns without hedge funds (19/03/2006) UK pension funds boosted long-term returns in 2005 (19/03/2006) The NPRF seeks more flexibility through its passive managers (19/03/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: (corrected) Xerox UK selects PIMCO (05/03/2006) Investor Profile: Sustainability is key for the Environment Agency Pension Fund (05/03/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Staffordshire closes its review process (19/02/2006) Two Weeks in Mandates: Storeys Group, Ansa Logistics, Smith & Nephew … (05/02/2006) Investor Profile: For Mistra, sustainability is both about science and finance (05/02/2006) Discount rates: Pensions digging their graves? (05/02/2006) Foundations need to do more on the investment front (05/02/2006) RFPs: French institutional investors slowly evolving towards the UK model (05/02/2006) Two weeks in mandates: Careon, Brent, Savills, Hermes... (22/01/2006) Institutional investment policies ill-adapted to hedge funds (22/01/2006) Two weeks in mandates: Investment Solutions lit up by Holophane (08/01/2006) Unilever pools European pension assets (08/01/2006) UK pension deficits slightly up in 2005 (08/01/2006) Two weeks in mandates: Dutch moves (18/12/2005) Huge investor appetite for linkers makes their price "inelastic" – Bank of England (18/12/2005) Two weeks in mandates: More gains for Storebrand in the Nordic region (04/12/2005) UK could create a national funded scheme on the Swedish model (04/12/2005) Pension pooling attracts multinationals (04/12/2005) Two Weeks in Mandates: Storebrand wins big from Gjensidige's investment portfolio outsourcing (20/11/2005) Pension deficits stable in UK, rising in US (20/11/2005) Restructuring in full swing for Sweden's AP funds (20/11/2005) Reserve funds give funding twist to PAYG-based system (20/11/2005) Two weeks in mandates: Irish gains for PIMCO (06/11/2005) Foreign assets attract Canadian pension funds (06/11/2005) Two weeks in mandates: Blood & Gore win their first mandate (23/10/2005) Pension Protection Fund: seeking to restore trust in the UK pension system (23/10/2005) Institutional investors put activism on the front stage (23/10/2005) Railpen's corporate governance policy to go global (23/10/2005) Large investors are driving the growth of socially responsible investments in France (23/10/2005) Two weeks in mandates: New managers for the West Midlands Metropolitan Authorities Pension Fund (09/10/2005) Trustees: Training needed to meet government's objectives (09/10/2005) Two weeks in mandates: the French federation of pension funds awards 15 investment mandates (25/09/2005) Alternative creep in European institutional portfolios (25/09/2005) Hybrid schemes could bring more stability to pensioners (25/09/2005) Global pension assets keep growing amidst weakened confidence (25/09/2005) Two weeks in mandates: SEI Investments gets on board with Scandinavian Air System (04/09/2005) UK corporate governance better than it used to be – pension funds (04/09/2005) Swiss family offices open up to outsourcing (04/09/2005) Two weeks in mandates: Staffordshire right in the middle of a restructuring (07/08/2005) Fill the governance vacuum with a code, says the NAPF (07/08/2005) Two weeks in mandates: the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to fully handle its currency risk (24/07/2005) Pension deficits: fill them up, but let the schemes be (24/07/2005) Ireland's National Pensions Reserve Fund firmly on the diversification track (24/07/2005) The Environment Agency wraps up the implementation of its new investment strategy (24/07/2005) Two weeks in mandates: the Pension Protection Fund awards four mandates, outlines its investment strategy (03/07/2005) French institutional SRI market set to double (03/07/2005) The new bfinance website (21/06/2005) Two weeks in mandates: North Yorkshire axes Henderson Global Investors (20/06/2005) Schemes with high allocation to bonds were the winners in 2004 (20/06/2005) Equities flowed toward alternatives in 2004 (20/06/2005) Two weeks in mandates: more specialist mandates for Volkswagen's pension scheme (05/06/2005) Private equity newcomer use mezzanine to shortcut the j-curve (05/06/2005) Pension funds drifted heavily towards bonds in 2004 (05/06/2005) As balanced mandates become something of the past, specialisation takes a new turn (05/06/2005) Two weeks in mandates: Norway's NGPF on the move (22/05/2005) Investor profile: for Austria's APK, being successful is all about being active (22/05/2005) Supremacy of specialist mandates confirmed as the Environment Agency ditches its balanced managers (22/05/2005) Two weeks in mandates: specialist managers dislodging balanced ones (01/05/2005) Insurers outsource their asset management operations to focus on their core responsibilities (01/05/2005) Out of cost concerns, Philips outsources its Dutch pension fund (01/05/2005) Two weeks in mandates: one big outsourcing deal for F&C (17/04/2005) Investor profile: Heavy investments in local equities an asset for Poland's ING Open Pension Fund (17/04/2005) Social investment a weapon of change for the World's faiths (17/04/2005) No choice but to perform for European corporate pension funds (17/04/2005) More asset manager turnover could enhance pension funds' performance (17/04/2005) Two weeks in mandates: institutional inflows on the rise (03/04/2005) Investor profile : property an investment delicacy for Québec's Caisse de Dépôt et Placement (03/04/2005) Pension funds still licking their wound after a good year (03/04/2005) Two weeks in mandates: hedge funds still on the radar screens (20/03/2005) Charities changing their habits to accommodate alternatives (20/03/2005) Pension pooling: no savings to be made, but a better asset-liability matching for Suez-Tractebel (20/03/2005) The FRR bets on quality and transparency (20/03/2005) Agirc-Arrco turns to specialised active management (20/03/2005) Two weeks in mandates: the BT Pension Scheme not lonesome anymore (06/03/2005) Investor profile: Norway's Storebrand rides the pension wave of change (06/03/2005) Two weeks in mandates: West Yorkshire Pension Fund takes the alternative plunge (20/02/2005) Alternative investments: a spin-off that pays off for Sweden's Länsförsäkringar (20/02/2005) Two weeks in mandates: GMO gets £144 in global equities (06/02/2005) Investor profile: Ilmarinen's fine asset-liability line (06/02/2005) Two weeks in mandates: a billion euros distributed in France (23/01/2005) Investor profile: light management and big returns for Spain's Fonditel (23/01/2005) Brokers slowly institutionalising their non-financial research (23/01/2005) Two weeks in mandates and tenders: ABP furthers its real estate positions (09/01/2005) Equity markets drive UK pension fund performance back into positive territory (09/01/2005) Ericsson to capitalise its Swedish pension trust (09/01/2005) Two weeks in mandates: more absolute return for Dorset County, Deutsche AM once more axed (19/12/2004) Privatisation of the French utilities doesn't mean the privatisation of their pension liabilities (19/12/2004) Pension funds want to contribute to the renewal of the pharmaceutical sector business model (19/12/2004) Two weeks in mandates: no mercy for the under-performing managers (05/12/2004) Investor profile: no red light for Denmark's ATP (05/12/2004) Investors seek to get more research on non-financials (05/12/2004) Companies hesitant to pool their pension assets (05/12/2004) Two weeks in mandates: investors continue their shake-up (21/11/2004) ABP headhunts PGGM CIO Roderick Munsters (21/11/2004) Two weeks in mandates: SEI Investments consolidating its business (07/11/2004) European pensions: the one-size-fits-all approach debated (07/11/2004) Two weeks in mandates: local government pension funds active on the equity front (24/10/2004) Investor profile: a 180-degree turn for Portugal Telecom's pension scheme operator (24/10/2004) European investors want fully portable pensions to be a reality (10/10/2004) European companies continue to pile up cash (10/10/2004) Only few treasurers dare to spice up their returns (10/10/2004) Affordability and sustainability are key to the future of Local Government Pensions - ODPM (10/10/2004) France's largest tender ever still criticised (27/09/2004) Global pension fund assets follow the market trend while UK schemes trail behind (26/09/2004) Calpers adopts best practices for external asset management (26/09/2004) Trustees of defined benefit schemes in wind-up facing FAS dilemma (12/09/2004) Out of necessity they grow: reserve and buffer funds in Europe (12/09/2004) Swedish buffer funds take steps to secure higher active returns (12/09/2004) Ireland's National Pensions Reserve Fund furthers its alternative investments (22/08/2004) Mammoth-sized pension funds withstand well market volatility (22/08/2004) The French Reserve Fund awards State Street Global its overlay manager mandate (22/08/2004) BBC pension scheme does not back off from equities (25/07/2004) European investors more in touch with their times (25/07/2004) Pension funds emancipating from traditional index benchmarks (25/07/2004) Skilled trustees so hot, so few (25/07/2004) Consultants still the trustee's best friends (25/07/2004) No monopoly of plain DC schemes over the replacement of final salary schemes (25/07/2004) Pension funds propel the institutional trend toward alternatives (11/07/2004) A local authority pension scheme crisis looms in the midst of under-funding (11/07/2004) Goldman Sachs to activate French Retirement Reserve's mandates (11/07/2004) Investec wins Polestar's £140 million fixed-income mandate (11/07/2004) The French Retirement Reserve completes the largest tender in history and is set to appoint an overlay manager (11/07/2004) Investor profile: Sweden's AP3, a proponent of the manager of managers approach (27/06/2004) Style diversification without the strings attached (27/06/2004) Large pension schemes more reactive than small ones to the Myners Report (27/06/2004) CalPERS continues to walk along the path of shareholder activism (13/06/2004) bfinance exclusive interview - Flintshire optimises its asset allocation (13/06/2004) French Retirement Reserve: second round of mandates attribution (10/06/2004) Small pension schemes have concerns over their own (30/05/2004) Defined benefits more likely than ever to be closed – JPMorgan Fleming (16/05/2004) Small institutional investors likely to welcome the introduction of a UK REIT (18/04/2004) Nestlé pension fund set to increase its alternative assets to about 20% (18/04/2004) French retirement reserve generous with national asset managers (18/04/2004) Confident charities recovering their appetite for risk and returns (04/04/2004) Complete disclosure of fees and expenses of investment funds a prime concern for investors (04/04/2004) Independent assessment of U.K. pension fund schemes' investment process could empower trustees and pension scheme members (04/04/2004) Alternative investors seek pricing clarity (23/03/2004) Calpers restores faith in active pension funds (18/03/2004) Dates for the diary - Cornwall seeks private equity fund of funds manager (13/02/2004) Hedge funds braced for pension fund investment splurge - study (28/01/2004) Charity trustees warned on investment knowledge (28/01/2004) World's top 300 pension funds 'bounce back' (28/01/2004) GM 'profits' from boosting its pension fund - John Ralfe (28/01/2004) Pooled pension funds strike positive territory (27/01/2004) Distressed securities and emerging market debt to lead hedge fund gains (23/01/2004) FRS17 deficit tops £60bn for FTSE 100 firms (20/01/2004) Carpenters' pension fund leads lawsuit against Parmalat's Tanzi and Tonna (08/01/2004) Hedge fund fees remain in a class of their own - study (06/01/2004) Calpers widens property net for emerging markets (11/12/2003) Fund managers shy on technology (03/12/2003) Valuation issues to be next 'black eye' for hedge funds (03/12/2003) Dates for the diary - City, Lambeth, Lewisham lead London call for new managers (03/12/2003) Mandate moves: Centrica awards five equity mandates (03/12/2003) The world has moved on, so should pension funds (03/12/2003) Trustees' New Year's resolution: Consider using a wider range of asset classes/investment techniques (03/12/2003) Hedge funds gain 2.5pc, but short-selling posts record losses (03/12/2003) Mandate moves: British Coal goes on mandate spree (30/10/2003) Clients should consider non-correlated assets, says UK fund manager (30/10/2003) UK company pension funds add 3.9pc in Q3 (30/10/2003) JPMorgan cements money market fund hold (30/10/2003) Britain's least favourite pension plan - John Ralfe on British Airways (29/10/2003) Mandate moves: Merseyside and Highland disclose autumn mandates (01/10/2003) Pension funds urged to ditch herd mentality, adopt 'absolute return' mandates (01/10/2003) Derivatives are respectable again, says UK fund manager (01/10/2003) Corporate Pensions: The Case of BT Group - Just how bad is it? (P1) (01/10/2003) Corporate Pensions: General Motors - Take a deep breath (P2) (01/10/2003) Advantages of structured approaches to cash flow and risk management have yet to be fully realised - Schroders (12/09/2003) Schroders scoops £3.9m property mandate (12/09/2003) Call for hedge funds to adopt laymen speak (12/09/2003) Mandate moves: Strathclyde sticks with incumbents for £2.5bn equities brief (12/09/2003) Dates for the diary: Surrey CC begins £950m search (12/09/2003) Goldman loses out to Western swagger (29/08/2003) Mandate moves: When, where, who to... (28/08/2003) Calpers, US pension fund giant, wades into investment banks, brokers (28/08/2003) IMMFA Money Fund Report™ - Frank Russell cash funds rated by Moody's (28/08/2003) Strathclyde Pension Fund records best quarter in 4 years, names new bond manager (28/08/2003) Measuring the true value of pension funds - An impossible task? (01/08/2003) Industry digest: SEC wants rules for pensions; Calpers sues AOL Time Warner; Portfolio trading gains (01/08/2003) Moody's technical: Analytical observations related to "underfunded" pension obligations using UK/IAS GAAP (01/08/2003) Mandate moves: When and who to... (01/08/2003) Advocating structuring tools to enhance traditional investment (01/08/2003) BlackRock's sterling, euro money funds added to IMMFA report (14/07/2003) Time to Buy Equities? (08/07/2003) Pension funds to double property holdings - LaSalle (08/07/2003) US pension funds adjust for alternative gains (08/07/2003) Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow aims to boost smaller scheme coverage (04/07/2003) JPMorgan leads money fund pack, again! (04/07/2003) Government announces new Pension Protection Fund, ABI stays cautious (12/06/2003) Corporate governance initiative revved up by NAPF (27/05/2003) Pension fund enlists IMS to smooth management process (13/05/2003) GM pension fund reveals strong funding position (15/04/2003) Hackney pension fund commits to £57m bond mandate (14/04/2003) Pension funds down 5pc since January - Mercer (07/04/2003) Over 70 per cent of final salary pension schemes are closed - ACA (25/03/2003) Pension study reveals US funds are close to crisis (24/03/2003) Selfridges' pension fund woe highlights FRS17 complications (21/03/2003) Calpers - "first pension fund to disclose private equity investments" (20/03/2003) Global search for innovative investment approaches (19/03/2003) Deficit confirmed, Sainsbury's pension fund looks to brighter future (14/03/2003) West Midlands pension fund wary of information overload to members (13/03/2003) Strathclyde Pension Fund retains manager, "after tough selection process" (10/03/2003) 90pc of pension funds in tune with Myners principles - NAPF survey (26/02/2003) Calpers indicates enough is enough with dismal returns (24/02/2003) Corporate pension fund digest: Tesco, BT, ICI reveal deficits; Sainsbury's optimistic (21/02/2003) US pension funds bundle investment, administration services (19/02/2003) Analysts puzzle over BT pension scheme deficit figure (14/02/2003) ICI's pension fund deficit "in comfort zone", says Merrill Lynch (07/02/2003) Kodak's pension fund develops property portfolio (04/02/2003) Greater Manchester's pension fund breaks sector losing streak (31/01/2003) Europe's biggest pension fund strengthens SRI grip (30/01/2003) Lothian pension fund awards £125m specialist mandate (16/01/2003) Wolves' pension fund gets teeth into corporate governance (10/01/2003) Honeywell turns up heat on its pension fund (07/01/2003) CalPERS invests $100m in Hermes' corporate governance fund (03/01/2003) Final salary pension scheme closures up 80pc - NAPF (13/12/2002) Frank Russell awash with £80m pension mandate (05/12/2002) CalPERS awards $400m pension fund mandate to 'shining star' (29/11/2002) Everything goes green at pension fund meeting (27/11/2002) Half of final salary pensions now closed to new entrants - Actuaries survey (20/11/2002) Pension funds in deficit should stay on their guard - S&P (13/11/2002) BoS freezes on £1.4bn pension fund decision (12/11/2002) Russell wins HarperCollins, Solutia pension fund mandates (11/11/2002) Around the world, pension funds warm to alternative assets (08/11/2002) Senior pension fund trustee fears Myners' "box-ticking blunder" (06/11/2002) Royal Liver awards £137m active mandate to BGI (29/10/2002) Sainsbury's pension fund deficit "not based on reality" (10/10/2002) CalPERS pension fund finds shelter in property (06/09/2002) Alternative investors welcome hedge fund review (03/09/2002) Skandia awards Aberdeen with property mandate (29/08/2002) CalPERS closes in on corporate abuses (28/08/2002) Inadequate monitoring of accrued income by pension schemes "potentially alarming" (08/08/2002) Charities get hedge fund glimpse (26/07/2002) Investors warm to commercial-backed securities - Nomura (24/07/2002) FDs, trustees say Pickering Report will not stem pension scheme closures (24/07/2002) Californian pension fund trio sue WorldCom and banks for $318m (19/07/2002) NAPF, FPB welcome pension overhaul proposals (15/07/2002) America's biggest pension fund confirms WorldCom losses of $580m (05/07/2002) Morley nets £90m SRI mandate (21/06/2002) Company pension schemes closure rate accelerates (19/06/2002) The death of the DB scheme is imminent; 25pc of pensions underfunded - survey (17/06/2002) Pensions group delivers 'no thanks' verdict on Myners reform (10/06/2002) "Groundbreaking" fee arrangement hailed by Mercer, Caterpillar pension fund (22/05/2002) Co-op kicks Merrill Lynch out of pension fund pie (20/05/2002) BA's £394m pension deficit won't hit ratings – S&P (14/05/2002) Independent directors given guidance on what investors really, really want (13/05/2002) Pensions association names new chief executive (10/05/2002) Schroders wins £280m sterling bond mandate, invests £300m in property (25/04/2002) Investec wins £309m in new mandates (23/04/2002) Treasury plans for fund manager intervention need reviewing (19/04/2002) Schroders tells pension fund clients to consider specialist management (15/04/2002) Pension fund opts for total management service with $26m mandate (12/04/2002) Notts County Council pension fund braves private equity investing (10/04/2002) Morley lands £70m charities mandate (08/04/2002) Tyne & Wear picks P&D, Legal & General for £900m mandates (04/04/2002) State Street gains mandates worth $26bn (02/04/2002) Hedge funds and pension funds: Can they live together? (28/03/2002) Half of FTSE 100 firms in FRS 17 deficit – Watson Wyatt (28/03/2002) Investors' 'day at the races' has its hurdles - research (27/03/2002) Mitsubishi acts to close pension fund gap (26/03/2002) Ghost of '74 haunts UK pension funds as another year turns red (25/03/2002) US pensions giant CalPERS stays with the street (25/03/2002) NAPF offers practical assistance with the Myners Principles (20/03/2002) Marconi's treasury to cough up £16m a year to close pension fund deficit (11/03/2002) UK pension funds get international performance code (05/03/2002) JP Morgan selected as Royal London trustee and custodian (27/02/2002) Nearly half of UK charity funds have received no solicitation from fund managers - survey (22/02/2002) Pension trustees receive guidance on investment strategy (21/02/2002) FDs faced with 15pc rise in company pension costs because of FRS 17 - research (20/02/2002) At last! Local authorities get the green light to invest in money market funds (14/02/2002) Full steam ahead for London Transport's pension fund (08/02/2002) Myners to speak at NAPF conference, one year on from report (07/02/2002) Enron scandal heaps more misery on pension funds (06/02/2002) Pension fund trustees must become 'active' shareholders under government proposals (06/02/2002) Cost transparency for pension funds to improve - Euraplan (28/01/2002) Yorkshire switches pension fund to passive management to cut costs (25/01/2002) Beattie's FD picks four managers for £40m pension fund overhaul (23/01/2002) Charities get ethical (07/01/2002) Skanska's £100m pension fund does a Boots in reverse (07/01/2002) Pension funds get corporate governance assistance (13/12/2001) Pension fund trustees' needs go back on the agenda (13/12/2001) The cost of running company pension schemes grows - NAPF (06/12/2001) Pensions funds can get more from 'green investing' - SRI expert (05/12/2001) Pension fund trustees get a helping hand (27/11/2001) Weak risk management failed Unilever's pension fund, says software provider (21/11/2001) Pension funds paying too much to switch fund managers, warn Frank Russell (09/10/2001) London calling: Why local authority pension funds cost more to run in the capital (08/10/2001) Government responds to Myners review with call for pension fund 'realism' (04/10/2001) Schroders' woes worry pension fund clients (13/09/2001) Marconi's in-house pension fund "worth less than Simpson pay-off" (11/09/2001) Sainsbury's use web to increase pension fund transparency (06/09/2001) Siemens offers pensions consulting to corporates (23/08/2001) Investors beginning to look on the bright-side - Merrill Lynch (22/08/2001) Pension scheme under-funding on the rise amongst FTSE 100 firms (16/08/2001) Benchmarking money market funds: An impossible task? (31/07/2001) Falling venture capital returns raises the stakes for 'safety-first' pension funds (25/07/2001) Positive start for stakeholder pensions (24/07/2001) Passive management attracts cost-sensitive pension funds (23/07/2001) Pension fund trustees' "lack of education" leaves private equity potential unfulfilled (17/07/2001) Ratings and regulation the key to treasurers' acceptance of money market funds (27/06/2001) FDs welcome Myners' proposals for active intervention in underperforming firms (26/06/2001) Trustees' tussle over pension surplus remains unresolved (22/06/2001) Breaking away - Can treasurers kick the habit and leave their banks for money market funds ? (21/06/2001) Ethical money market funds provide investors with a dilemma (20/06/2001) BT's long-living pensioners thwart debt reduction plans, cause headaches for trustees (13/06/2001) High audit costs hit fund managers and trustees where it hurts most (12/06/2001) FDs await FRS 17's impact on pension scheme costs with trepidation (06/06/2001) The bfinance interview - David Cranston CBE, director general of the NAPF discusses the changing nature of the pension industry (31/05/2001) Phillips & Drew re-adjusts its investment strategy following £1.7bn mandates review (18/05/2001) NAPF seeks to make Myners report "more workable" (17/05/2001) Banks aim to ease treasury woes with latest money market funds (16/05/2001) UK treasurers warm to money market funds (27/04/2001)