All IPE articles in April 2002 (Online) – Page 4
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API says UK funds should raise property to 15%
UK – Aberdeen Property Investors (API) has suggested that with property set to outperform other asset classes over the next five years, pension funds should increase their exposure to 15% of the overall portfolio.
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T Rowe enters fund partnership with Tapiola
FINLAND- Investment manager T. Rowe Price has entered a partnership with Tapiola Fund Management Company, giving Tapiola exclusive rights to market six T. Rowe Price funds in Finland through its own branded mutual funds.
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UBS Capital partners launch PE exit strategy group
UK- Five partners in the UK team of UBS Capital, the private equity company formerly known as Phildrew Ventures, have launched a new entity IRRfc specialising in taking on the management of institutional investors’ unwanted private equity holdings. IRRfc will focus exclusively on exit strategies and will not be making ...
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Boots buys £200m of inflation-linked assets
UK- Boots’ £2.4bn pension fund has purchased £200m worth of inflation-linked investments in a bid to improve the match between assets and liabilities. The purchase follows the fund’s decision last October to sell its entire equity holdings and move the proceeds into fixed income. At the time critics said the ...
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Fortis and SAMS form risk analysis joint venture
BENELUX- Fortis Investment Bank and software provider Strategic Asset Management Solutions (SAMS) have launched a joint venture offering Benelux clients bespoke performance attribution, risk measurement and analysis.
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Rothschild poaches Milton from Baring AM
UK – Rothschild Asset Management has appointed Ian Milton as assistant director and head of European institutional business development. Milton joins Rothschild from Baring Asset Management where he was regional team head in the continental European sales and client service team.
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Frei to cover north central Europe for Citibank
UK – Citibank Global Securities Services has appointed Alfred Frei as regional market manager for north central Europe. Frei comes to Citibank from Pictet & Cie where he was head of global custody marketing and sales in Zurich.
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Fixage leaves EURACS and joins Milliman
France – Fixage, the French actuarial and consulting firm, has left the European and Actuarial Consulting Services (EURACS) network, where it was acting secretariat. Fixage has also just announced its appointment as representative in France for the worldwide consulting network, Milliman Global.
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Spain to clarify EU directive position next week
EU- Speculation about attempts by the Spanish EU presidency to introduce quantitative investment restrictions and solvency tests into the pensions directive will disappear next week when it publishes a formal presidential text laying out its position on both issues.
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NAPF urges Brown to restore confidence in pensions
UK- The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to use next week's budget speech as an opportunity to restore confidence in saving for retirement.
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ASIP opposes lowering of minimum pensions coverage
SWITZERLAND- The Swiss pension fund association, ASIP, which represents Switzerland’s company schemes, is opposing plans to lower the minimum level of mandatory supplementary pension coverage. It claims the move will result in “mini pensions”.
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Bowie named as new head of Hymans Robertson
UK- Ronnie Bowie has been named as senior partner at actuarial and consulting firm Hymans Robertson and as a replacement for Mike Arnold who is becoming senior principal of the recently established Milliman UK.
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Franklin Templeton beefs up FTI Institutional
UK- Franklin Templeton Investments is expanding FTI Institutional, its London-based marketing and client servicing division, with four new appointments. Peter Escott has been moved from manager of international marketing services to manager of UK Institutional Sales. Escott is tasked with building consultant and market awareness of Templeton’s global equity exempt ...
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Stamford picks Morris for multi-manager products
UK – Independent consultancy firm Stamford Associates has appointed Neil Morris as head of business development and client services for multi-manager products.
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Citibank joins FX Connect and FXall
GLOBAL- Citibank has joined FX Connect, State Street’s multi-bank electronic foreign exchange trading system, and the electronic platform FXall following the collapse of the rival system Atriax last week.
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BGI adds to portfolio transition management team
UK- Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has appointed Jagdeep Bains as head of portfolio transition management, a new role which sees him responsible for defining and managing BGI’s transition trading strategies and implementing them in the UK and Europe.
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Style Research opens up in America
US/UK- London-based style analytics firm Style Research (SR) has set up operations in the US to develop the North American market. “We have a number of clients already in the US and Canada and a number of business partners, with whom we want to develop additional services,” says Robert Schwob, ...
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FIS beefs up US equities team
UK – Friends, Ivory & Sime (FIS) have appointed Tim Sharman and Robin Wrench to their US equities team.
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Dow Jones launches seven European Titan indices
EUROPE- Dow Jones is launching a further seven European Country Titan indices today. Henceforth, blue-chip indices for France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands are available through the major data vendors as well as the Dow Jones index website www.djindexes.com
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Funds for European PE down 34% in 2001
EUROPE- Funds raised for European private equity fell more than a third last year from e48bn at the end of 2000 to e31.5bn according to preliminary figures released by the European Venture Capital Association. Although the slowdown is significant, it is less severe than the US market which has seen ...
