Advisers – Page 176
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Mercer in Huntsman Tioxide £380m pensions mandate
UK – William M. Mercer has been appointed as investment consultant for the £380m (€608m) combined Tioxide and Huntsman pension schemes.
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Swedish pension fund fills all executive posts
SWEDEN – The Second Swedish National Pension Fund AP2 has appointed Petter Odhnoff as chief investment officer (CIO) and Lennart Jonsson as head of communications
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Half of Europe's schemes hit by US tragedy
Almost 50% of European pensions funds say they have experienced a notable impact on their fund assets in the light of the terrorist attacks in the US last week and the subsequent fallout of global markets, according to a survey by IPE-Newsline...
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Mercer scores investment brief at rugby union fund
UK - William M. Mercer has been appointed as actuarial, administration and investment consultant for the £3 million Rugby Football Union defined benefit pension plan....
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Investment banks rally after US disaster
US SPECIAL - Investment banking groups, many of whom had offices within the World Trade Centre in New York, have released statements of sympathy to the relatives of colleagues still missing in the aftermath of yesterday’s horrific terrorist attack, as well as updates on the well being of their employees.....
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Internet pension solutions may be costly mistakes
Major electronic human resources (HR) investments and internet-based pensions solutions could become costly mistakes for firms without the in-house technical know-how to assess fully their benefits and drawbacks, according to consultants Watson Wyatt....
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Roberts is new COO at Jones Lang Lasalle
UK/US – Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) has appointed Peter Roberts as the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer....
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James Walker appoints Mercer as scheme actuary
UK – The £26m pension scheme of international industrial seals group James Walker has appointed William M. Mercer as actuary, administrator and investment consultant to the firm’s defined benefit plan....
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German consultant adapts to pension reforms
GERMANY – Cologne based independent consultancy firm, Büro Dr. Heubeck, Cologne, has, changed its German legal status, becoming HEUBECK AG, in a move it says will better allow it to meet the increasing “requirements and demands” of the German market, particularly the Riester pension reforms....
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Europe's top pension funds list '2001' published
EUROPE – The Norwegian State Oil Fund was Europe’s fastest growing pension fund among the continent’s top 20 schemes in the year from September 2000 to September 2001, according to figures compiled by Investment & Pensions Europe Magazine (IPE) in its annual 'Top 1,000' survey of European pension funds.
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UCW Pensions selects Rothschild for fund assets
UK – The £32m (e52m) UCW Pensions 2001 scheme, which provides pension benefits to sections of the employees and former employees of the Communication Workers Union, has selected Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) to manage a multi-asset mandate for its entire assets....
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Carsberg becomes new UK pensions ombudsman
UK – The UK government has announced the replacement of pensions ombudsman Julian Farrand with the appointment of Sir Bryan Carsberg as chairman of the Pensions Compensation Board (PCB) from September 1....
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Morley makes new corporate research hires
UK - Morley Fund Management has made two new appointments to its London-based corporate research team...
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Unconvinced speak out
Talk to any investment professional about multi-manager and most have forthright opinions. However, such is the reach of the multi-manager approach- linking consultants, investment managers and pension funds- that few are willing to go on the record. In the UK, in particular, consultants still rule and are rightly considered the ...
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How many managers?
Two arguments commonly used to promote multi management structures are one, that they give small schemes access to specialist managers and two, that by employing more managers, they are a good means of diversifying risk. These arguments rest on two assumptions though – firstly that specialists are special and secondly ...
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AIMMI - forming a professional body
It’s only two short years ago that a stir was caused by a UK pension scheme holding an all multi-manager beauty parade. Here, for the first time in the UK, was a trustee body who had made the decision to use a manager of managers, and then set about finding ...
