Swiss Pension Fund Seeks Passive Managers For Domestic, Global Equities

A Swiss pension fund is seeking managers for allocations to domestic and global developed market equities, via IPE Quest.

The investor plans to allocate $100m (€88.2m) to the developed market equities mandate and CHF100m (€88.1m) to the Swiss equities mandate.

According to search QN-2510, the pension fund is interested in allocating to an all-cap or large-cap passive global equities manager.

The benchmark for the global mandate is the MSCI World ex Switzerland index.

For the Swiss tender – which is also for a passive manager – search QN-2509 states the benchmark as the SPI index.

In both cases, managers pitching for the business should have at least $750m under management in the strategy and at least $1bn under management across the firm.

Managers should have a track record of at least four years, but the investor said it would prefer those with at least a 10-year record.

The maximum tracking error is 4% for both mandates. Performance should be stated gross of fees to 31 January 2019.

The deadline for submissions for both mandates is 5pm UK time on 14 February.

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