Investment

Emma Dunkley previews the April 15 edition of Professional Pensions.

DENMARK - Danish pension manager LD has put up to €6bn (US$8.2bn) in assets up for bid for 12 bond and equity mandates.

The Pension Protection Fund and Visteon UK scheme trustees have filed a $550m (£350m) claim against US Visteon Corporation to recover money for the fund.

BP's disclosure on the financial, environmental and human rights risks of its controversial Canadian tar sands project remains insufficient an investor coalition says.

Aberdeen has been buying into gilts over the past two weeks on optimism the UK will keep its AAA credit rating and sterling will hold firm.

US - Public pension funds in the US have been said to be embracing risk, but scheme managers at the recent Pension Bridge Annual conference in San Francisco said they're merely taking on riskier assets in a smarter way.

CHILE - Chilean pension funds grew 30.8% to US$119.1bn in the 12 months up to March 2010 on the back of gains in non domestic equities investments, regulator Superintendencia de Pensiones revealed.

CANADA - The C$32.6bn (US$32.5bn) Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) posted a 15.2% profit for 2009 on the back of gains in North American equities, according to its 2009 annual report.

Defined benefit pension funds are £0.3bn in surplus for the first time since June 2008, Pension Protection Fund figures reveal.

ROMANIA - Romanian mandatory private pension funds posted a 9.5% profit for the first quarter of 2010 and gained 24.2% in the 12 months ending March 31, data by pension supervisory authority Comisia de Supraveghere a Sistemului de Pensii Private (CSSPP)...