Published date: 28 January 2019

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 2 July 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Financial and insurance services - 66000000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£26,000,000

Procurement reference

WOLVCITY001-DN343336-51597924

Published date

28 January 2019

Closing date

2 July 2018

Contract start date

1 November 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Competitive dialog

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

LGPS Central Limited is a private company, owned by its investors, responsible for the pooling of nine regional pension plans' investments, responsible for AUM in the region of £40billion. The company received authorisation from the FCA in January 2018. The key objectives of the LGPS Central pool are to: - meet the investment objectives of the partner funds - establish a collaborative platform through which administering authorities of the partner Funds can aggregate their pension assets, with a view to providing scale economies and improved investment efficiency - create capacity to invest in asset classes which individual funds may find difficult to access - stimulate innovation, and provide an opportunity for funds to engage with the investment industry in finding new and creative approaches to the funding challenges faced by the LGPS (and the wider pensions sector) - act as a responsible, long-term investor, using its influence as a shareholder to promote the highest standards of corporate stewardship The company is looking for global active emerging markets equity managers to manage a fund in the region of £1.5billion. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate: - consistent, robust, repeatable, investment process - responsible investment at the heart of the investment process - concentrated portfolio - low, fully transparent costs - full transparency (look through) with the ACS custodian


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

PP18044 - LGPS Central Active Global Emerging Market Equities

  • Opportunity
  • Published 31 May 2018

Additional text

The partnership is made up of the local authority pension schemes of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire & West Midlands ITA.
All queries and bids must be submitted via the portal at www.wolverhamptontenders.com Please allow sufficient time to upload your response.


Award information

Awarded date

15 January 2019

Contract start date

1 February 2019

Contract end date

30 June 2029

Total value of contract

£26,000,000

This contract was awarded to 3 suppliers.

BMO Global Asset Management (formerly F&C)

Address

ec2a 2ny

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

Vontobel Asset Management

Address

W1S 3DN

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

UBS Global Asset Management

Address

EC2M 2QS

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Jessica Prince

Address

Civic Centre
St Peters Square
Wolverhampton
WV1 1RL
England

Telephone

+44 1902556556

Email

jessica.prince@wolverhampton.gov.uk

Website

http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk