Sentences with phrase «largest pension fund»

Hermes is the Investment Manager for the UK \'s largest Pension Fund - British Telecom, and also the UK \'s 4th largest Pension Fund - Royal Mail.

This has attracted a diverse shareholder base, including the likes of Africa's largest pension fund, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), who currently holds 25.87 % of the company.

South Korea's NPS is the world's third - largest pension fund.

This move by the world's largest pension fund should spur similar funds and other investors to take a critical look at their investments amid rising concerns over weapons that would select and attack targets without meaningful human control.

Financial Times titled «Private equity retreats from renewables fad,» of Feb. 21, 2014 quoted Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of Calpers, of the world's sixth - largest pension fund, as describing clean - tech investment as a «noble way to lose money.»

The Norwegian GPF is the world's second - largest Pension Fund, so this has really far - reaching impacts.»

Mr. Khan was most recently the managing director and head of investment operations for Canada's largest pension fund.

Mark Machin, the head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, said he doesn't think the bitcoin and blockchain space is «investible» yet, but the country's largest pension fund is monitoring it with interest.

We've enlisted the help of Malcolm Hamilton, a partner with Mercer Human Resource Consulting, and Colin Sinclare, senior vice-president of McLean Budden (the sixth - largest pension fund manager in Canada), to show you how.

Relations were much friendlier in the earliest days of the investigation, in summer 2007, when Mr. Cuomo's office began scrutinizing the tiny circle of associates around State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi, who had positioned themselves as middlemen between financial firms seeking investments from the New York State Common Retirement Fund — the third largest pension fund in the country — and the public officials who controlled how the money was invested.

He's right: A single official shouldn't have sole authority over the nation's third - largest pension fund.

The comptroller defended his office's ability to manage the nation's third largest pension fund.

NEW YORK (AP)-- A former top official at the country's third - largest pension fund and two broker - dealers were charged Wednesday in what a federal prosecutor described as a classic bribery scheme that steered $ 2 billion in trades in exchange for drugs, prostitutes, vacations and U.S. Open tennis tickets.

James, a trustee of the city's largest pension fund, said she would introduce a bill prohibiting the city from signing contracts with firms involved in the wall project.

The nation's third - largest pension fund continues to recover the shock of the 2009 financial crisis when it lost billions of dollars in value.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

«I can play a role here to help them,» he said, pointing to recent reports by his office exposing fiscal waste, and his experience serving on the city's franchise review committee and as a board member of the city's largest pension fund.

For instance, Blackrock managed $ 4.1 billion for NYCERS, the city's largest pension fund, in the Russell 3000 Index, charging $ 184,000 in fees, or.004 percent.

The board of the New York City Employees Retirement System, the city's largest pension fund, voted on Thursday to divest the $ 54.5 billion fund's holdings in companies that sell firearms, a spokesman for City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

Its volunteer members range from Michael Sabia — who guides Canada's second largest pension fund as head of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec — to Elyse Allen, the president of GE Canada.

The New York State comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, who oversees the third - largest pension fund in the country, sent letters this spring to the chief executives of nine financial institutions, including JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, asking them to evaluate the risks of being associated with firearms, ammunition and gun accessories.

AIMCo is one of the country's largest pension fund managers, with $ 70 billion under management, including the $ 17 - billion Heritage Fund.

Calpers, the largest pension fund in the United States, has previously settled with Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's, the other rating agencies that were named in the lawsuit.

The CPPIB, one of the world's largest pension funds, invests money not needed by the Canada Pension Plan to pay benefits for some 18 million current and retired contributors.

«Given France's cultural ties and economic ties around the emerging markets and the presence of major international French banks already in London and internationally and large pension funds like Amundi, I think France and Paris have a great chance of becoming even more of an international market than it already is,» he said.

These companies not only benefit from a stable and dynamic equity marketplace, they also gain access to large pension funds, money managers and other institutional investors.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada's largest pension funds with nearly $ 61 billion in net assets.

Among its clients are six of the ten largest mutual fund families and six of the eight largest pension funds.

The Rainmaker Plan is a safe, secure and proven plan based on the same Internal Revenue Code techniques and provisions used by large pension funds.

Portfolio managers and traders from the world's largest pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies also use bond ETFs.

They include one of Canada's largest pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, which has snapped up close to $ 100 million worth of cattle stations in the past year through local company Hewitt Cattle Australia.

The IIRA piggybacked on the anti-bank sentiment of the post-collapse Occupy Era, and promised implicitly to «recover» the moneys lost by large pension funds as the stock market went down.

But Governor Cuomo, a long - time political rival of the comptroller, says it raises questions about the state comptroller's role as sole trustee of one of the largest pension funds in the nation.

Alan Hevesi's admission that he used his position as the head of one of the nation's largest pension funds to enrich himself and his cronies is hardly a surprise.

One way or another — and using near identical language — placement agents are barred from getting near one of the nation's largest pension funds.

The main differences are that PRPPs can be set up by small businesses so that contributions automatically come off an employee's paycheque (employees would be allowed to opt out); the government also promises that PRPPs would have lower management fees because contributions would be «pooled» with others in large pension funds, creating economies of scale.

That's why Sun Life Investment Management recently surveyed leaders at Canada's largest pension funds, seeking their opinions on some of the most topical issues today.

Portfolio managers and traders from the world's largest pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies also use bond ETFs.

An even better source would be those who make investment decisions for the very large pension funds, which have more money invested than most mutual funds.

It's why many of the world's largest pension funds and insurance companies trust BlackRock to understand their unique objectives and why advisors and individual end investors partner with BlackRock to help them build the more dynamic, diverse portfolios these times require.

He is experienced in finance and real estate doing research at a commercial real estate brokerage and having worked with private investments at a large pension fund.

Another factor that helped REITs in recent years was massive buying by large pension funds, which came around to the notion that real estate was a good long - term diversifier against the ups and downs of the stock market.

Financial trust companies, or independent retirement custodians, that manage large pension funds and alternative assets also offer self - directed IRAs.

The prospect of rising rates of return from agricultural commodities and from increases in land value boosts the attractiveness of agricultural land also as a speculative investment for rich individuals, large pension funds and state funds.

The total combined value of the New York City and State is more than $ 390 billion, making these amongst the largest pension funds in the United States and world.

This might explain the position of the BBC and other government and academic organizations: http://www.iigcc.org/index.aspx «The group currently has over 50 members, including some of the largest pension funds and asset managers in Europe, and represents assets of around $ 4trillion.

The only places in the world with trillions of dollars are global bond and equity markets — especially the large pension funds in developed countries.

When advised that Slater and Gordon's investors (mainly two large pension funds) had lost over Six Hundred Million dollars, one ABS supporter dismissed it as «growing pains».

Highlights of his work with the dispute resolution team include acting for a company in a High Court trial involving a large pension fund and Heathrow Airport Ltd, and assisting on several litigation matters for a major high street bank.