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Fidelity in Europe/UK personnel reshuffle
UK/EUROPE – Fidelity has appointed Anna Roads to the new position of director of research and product development, pan-Europe....
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Mercer to advise £60m Amey schemes
UK – Amey, the business support and outsourcing services group, has appointed consultant William M. Mercer as its actuarial, investment and communications consultant for its two group pension schemes....
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Multi-manager momentum
The multi-manager or manager of manager concept is beginning to gather momentum in the UK market as institutional investors tentatively hand over their assets. Leading the field are Frank Russell and Northern Trust Global Investors but SEI, the US-based manager of managers, is making inroads into the market, having set ...
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Fund of funds take off in Spanish market
The Spanish asset management industry has gradually increased its range of investment products, and both international funds and SICAVs and domestic SIMCAVS are gaining weight within the whole Spanish investment market. In the last few years the market for investment funds in Spain has grown in size and, for some ...
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Consultants on the block
Consultants are getting a taste of their own medicine, in the form of a manager selection performance measurement scheme launched by the WM Company, the UK-based performance measurement and investment administration firm. But some consultants have chosen to put themselves in the spotlight, says Peter Warrington, executive director at WM, ...
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Consulting actuaries: what kind of network?
Actuarial sciences and mathematics know no border and are naturally global. Accordingly, the progress of European regulation and of international accounting principles tends to reduce the still prominent role of local rules. A large part of the market for actuarial consultancy depends on big international companies. Therefore one possible answer ...
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Swedish manager poaches FIS chief for US push
Stockholm-based asset manager Länsförsäkringar Kapitalförvaltning is beefing up its US operations by recruiting J Robert Bloom as head of its New York office.... And all the week's major people moves...
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Russell and Watsons win Irish reserve fund briefs
IRELAND - The Dublin based Irish National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has selected consultant Frank Russell to advise on the selection of investment managers for the e6.5bn National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF)....
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Sweden's AP2 and AP3 funds make top level hires
SWEDEN – The government pension buffer funds AP2 and AP3 have made a number of top level appointments to their in-house investment teams....
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Huerta to lead Spanish institutional sales at R&SA
Victoria Huerta has been appointed as sales director of retail and institutional funds at the Madrid office of Royal & Sun Alliance Investments Luxembourg.... And all the week's major people moves....
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Mellon to consolidate in new European HQ
UK/EUROPE – Pittsburgh based Mellon Financial is planning to open a new European headquarters in London by the end of 2003....
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Japanese DC 'goldmine' won't happen, warns Cerulli
JAPAN – The recently authorised Japanese defined contribution (DC) plans will not create a goldmine for foreign fund managers, raising only ¥5trn (e47bn) during their first three years of operations, according to Boston based research and consulting firm Cerulli Associates...
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Report reveals way ahead for European insurers
EUROPE – Geographical expansion and integration in the major developing economies of the world is seen as fundamental by large European insurance companies, according to a survey by consultants Arthur Andersen...
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UK finance directors pledge support for Myners
UK – Nearly two thirds (64%) of finance directors of some of the largest UK companies ‘broadly’ support the proposals of the Myners report on institutional investment in the UK, according to a survey commissioned by Barclays Global Investors (BGI)....
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UK £20bn electric fund in huge reorganisation
UK – The £20bn (e33.1bn) industry-wide occupational retirement plan for 26 electricity companies, Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS), has reorganised some £2.1bn of its assets....
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PMI elects four new council members
UK – The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) Council has elected four new members, who will take up their positions at the group’s AGM on July 12...
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Watson Wyatt appoints new Spanish office director
Consultant Watson Wyatt in Spain has appointed Javier Fañanás as director of its Barcelona office....
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Euro is a threat to UK small caps, says industry
UK/EUROPE – The majority of UK fund managers, broker analysts, and smaller companies believe that small cap UK companies will not benefit from joining the European Monetary Union (EMU), according to a Reuters survey, conducted by London-based Tempest Consultants.
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Wassum mulls over move into Denmark
DENMARK/FINLAND – Swedish investment consultancy Wassum is planning a possible move into the Danish market with the opening of a Copenhagen office, according to Mats Langensjö, consultant and managing director at Wassum in Stockholm....
