Legg Mason's Esemplia, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Vontobel will each run a $250 million global emerging-market portfolio, the state entity’s first GEM mandates.
Mercer carried out fewer investment-manager searches in Asia last year, but placed 33% more assets in the region.
The Taiwanese pension fund is inviting pitches for its first three emerging-market equity mandates, worth a total of $750 million.
The Malaysian firm is pitching for more institutional mandates and hopes to benefit from money contributed to the state-run Employees Provident Fund being shifted into unit trusts.
Weary of recent corruption charges, the civil servants’ pension fund is capping the maximum number of accounts that managers can get from the fund.
The Bureau of Labour Insurance makes its first foray into international fund mandates.
The Taiwan insurer may hire external fund managers by the end of the year.
It is expanding its Hong Kong office to market multi-manager and other institutional investment-related services.
Xiang Huaicheng, chairman at the National Council for Social Security Fund, outlines his objectives.
This month the civil servants pension fund will send out RFPs for international fund managers and custodians.
A report sponsored by Bermuda Trust sees growth in institutional and retail mandates.
This represents the first conversion of State Street''s purchase of Deutsche Bank''s custody business.
But fees and licensing may hold up mandate implementation by Korea’s biggest institutional investor.
The national social security fund is leading the development of specialist mandates.
The ADB, which is reviewing bids, will make its final decision in three weeks.
In partnership with a local third party fund administrator, Deutsche wins six joint mandates for a total of 12 funds in Korea. Meanwhile in India, it picks up a sub-custody role.
State Street Corporation has bagged a lucrative contract with ABP to service its US and Japanese assets.