A new fund management behemoth was formed this year when Barclays Global Investors (BGI) was sold by its parent bank Barclays to BlackRock. Mergers of this sort have a patchy history. By Dr Arjuna Sittampalam, Research Associate with EDHEC-Risk and Editor, Investment Management Review, looks at the issues of how this particular alliance will fare and the wider industry implications.
Hermes Fund Managers, the investment management arm of the BT Pension Scheme in the UK, is following the charted territory of OMERS in Canada and QIC in Australia, and branching beyond the province of its principal client with the aim of being a funds manager for pension funds globally. Head of investment, Saker Nusseibeh, spoke with Amanda White about the challenges and advantages of being a pension fund-owned funds manager, and the implications for the fund.
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Taking over from Peter Moon, chief investment officer of the £27 billion ($44 billion) Universities Superannuation Scheme, Roger Gray is the first new CIO at the fund in 17 years. He speaks with Amanda White about viewing the fund through fresh eyes and his ideas for staffing and investment developments.
The world’s largest buyout firm, Blackstone Group, has set up its first regional renminbi-denominated private equity fund in China.
Hermes, the investment management arm of the £28 billion ($45 billion) BT Pension Scheme in the UK, is building a ’boutique of boutiques’ via an aggressive expansion plan that includes lifting funds management teams from the private sector, with the aim of selling its alpha expertise to other pension funds globally from January 1, 2010.