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Features
Crossing the boundaries
The European market for pension fund consultants is effectively two markets - a mature and an immature market. In UK the Netherlands and Ireland, where their role is well understood, consultants are firmly entrenched. Elsewhere in continental Europe, however, consultants are far less established. This has created opportunities for continental ...
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Kottman Advisory formed
Felix Kottmann, the former member of the executive committee at Swiss consultants Complementa, who left the firm earlier this year, has set up his own consultancy firm. Kottmann Advisory is to provide customised services to a group of international institutional and private clients in Switzerland. Kottmann, who already works on ...
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More accountability for UK consultants
Alan Botterill’s claim that the Myners report is just one part of the jigsaw, is a sentiment shared by every other consultant interviewed by IPE. They agree that 2001 was frantically busy and a year in which the industry faced an unprecedented number of changes. It’s not just the Myners ...
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Portuguese pensions law in limbo after PM resigns
PORTUGAL – Yesterday’s shock resignation of Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Guterres, after local elections swept his Socialist party from power in the country’s main cities and towns, has left the fate of proposed new pensions laws up in the air....
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Parsons to head up EFG AM global marketing push
UK – EFG Asset Management, part of the global EFG banking group, has hired John Parsons, a former sales director for Barclays International Funds, to become its marketing director....
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Rothschild engineers £56m FKI bond brief
UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has been appointed by the trustees of the FKI Group Pension Scheme to manage the fund’s £56m bond exposure....
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Reuters report reveals fears over Myners review
UK – The potential introduction of single fee structures and an end to “soft commissions” is the hottest subject among fund managers thrown up by the Myners review of institutional investment, claims research undertaken by Reuters into the review’s impact on the fund management and financial industries....
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Callund scoops award for Russian pensions work
UK/RUSSIA - Callund Consulting has been named British Small Consultancy Firm of the Year in recognition of its work on pension reform in Russia.....
