Multi-manager

In the fastchanging Dutch pensions environment, both pension funds and asset managers are having to rethink their game in order to keep their place in the industry. Keren Holland reports

The £2bn Avon Pension Fund is looking for multi-managers to run two specialist active property portfolios worth a total of £250m.

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THE £2bn Avon Pension Fund is looking for multi-managers to run two specialist active property portfolios worth a total of £250m.

UK - The £2.2bn (US$4.3bn) Avon Pension Fund and Bath and North East Somerset Council (Bathnes) has placed £250m of entirely new property mandates out to tender, split equally between domestic UK and overseas property.

Cowen Asset Management is to launch a global climate change fund targeted at pension schemes.

Cowen Asset Management is to launch a global climate change fund targeted at pension schemes.

With the effects of 2007's credit crunch making themselves felt in the equity markets, the UK's pension funds are looking at ways to reduce risk and volatility. Heather Dale reports from London

Global Pensions gathered key industry experts in London to discuss the latest issues impacting the growing ETF industry and how these relate to pension funds

Cowen Asset Management has launched a range of actively managed funds targeted at the institutional pension and multi-manager markets.