Asset Managers – Page 223
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IPE Awards: 130/30 craze is "overplayed"
[15:45 CET 19-11] GLOBAL – The hype around long-short investment products, such as 130/30 strategies, is very much overplayed, delegates at the annual IPE Awards in Vienna were told.
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Asset managers launch to tap market uncertainty
[15:30 CET 19-11] UK – Two new investment houses are entering the UK institutional market with services aimed at the European pension funds arena.
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IPE Awards: ABP/Cordares will bring new ideas to Italy – Frijns
[16:00 CET 16-11] NETHERLANDS/ITALY – The Italian pension fund industry could develop more towards the Dutch model, Jean Frijns, consultant to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has suggested.
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PensCorp secures Telent deal
[14:00 CET 16-11] UK - Edmund Truell's Pension Corporation has finally managed to secure a deal to buy the former Marconi pension fund for £398m (€570m).
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IPE Awards: BNL fund to outsource real estate
[13:30 CET 16-11] ITALY – The €970m pension fund of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is looking to outsource the management of its real estate portfolio.
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IPE Awards: "Diversification may turn to contagion" warning (Updated)
[13:00 CET 16-11] GLOBAL - Increasing globalisation means correlations between markets and returns of asset classes change frequently, Sudhir Rajkumar, head of the Pension Investment Partnership at the World Bank, has warned.
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IPE Awards: Fiduciary managers make market 'fairer' – Frijns
[16:30 CET 15-11] EUROPE – Smaller pension funds will gain easier access to alternative asset classes thanks to fiduciary managers, Jean Frijns, consultant to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, has suggested.
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Emap transfers pensions to Paternoster
[15:45 CET 13-11] UK – Major British media conglomerate Emap has transferred its two largest defined benefit schemes to Mark Wood's pension buyout firm, Paternoster, the company announced today.
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ABP and Cordares in merger talks
[11:42 CET 13-11] NETHERLANDS – Giant Dutch pension fund ABP and pensions provider-cum-asset manager Cordares will this week start exclusive talks to explore a cooperation and a possible merger.
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SWIP finally secures new CEO
[11:35 CET 13-11] UK - Dean Buckley has been named as the new chief executive of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), almost 10 months after the position became vacant.
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Standard Life leaves Pearl to pursue Resolution
[16:00 CET 12-11] UK – Insurance and investment firm Pearl Group is one step closer to a merger with rival firm Resolution Group as Standard Life has now pulled out of talks to buy the asset house.
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Horeca names new head of investments
[15:00 CET 12-11] NETHERLANDS - Horeca & Catering (PH&C), the €2.8bn pension fund for the Dutch hotel, restaurant and catering industry, has announced Ernst Hagen will become its new head of investments.
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Aon closes Swedish investment consultancy
[15:30 CET 08-11] SWEDEN – The global consulting company Aon has closed its investment strategy consultancy business in Stockholm following the departure of both Mats Langensjö and Martin Källström.
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Julius Baer reshuffles asset management
[12:00 CET 07-11] SWITZERLAND – Swiss private bank Julius Baer Holdings has announced it will combine its European asset management arm and the private banking subsidiaries under the umbrella of wealth manager Bank Julius Baer.
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Ex-Morgan Stanley banker claims pension revolution
[16:35 CET 05-11] UK – Amelia Fawcett, former vice chairman of Morgan Stanley's European business, has set up a new company claiming to completely immunise defined benefit (DB) pension schemes from risk.
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CAAM mixes strategies to deliver alpha gem
[15:00 CET 05-11] GLOBAL – Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has unveiled two global equity funds which incorporate a mixture of top-down, tactical and bottom-up strategies designed to generate uncorrelated performance.
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Lærernes taps new domestic equity managers
[16:45 CET 02-11] DENMARK – The DKK24.5bn (€3.3bn) Danish teachers' pension fund, Lærernes Pension, has selected Gudme Raaschou and FMS04 to manage a Danish equities portfolio.
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BidRoute bulk trading goes live
[16:30 CET 02-11] EUROPE – An electronic system has officially been launched which allows investment managers to place bulk order portfolio trades of 35 stocks or more on a single online platform.
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State Street sued over sub-prime saga
[16:30 CET 01-11] GLOBAL – State Street says it is "disappointed" by the three lawsuits its faces from a number of its fixed-income clients, concerning losses linked to the recent sub-prime credit crunch.
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BAA flies 130/30
[16:30 CET 31-10] UK – The £2bn (€3bn) defined benefit scheme of the UK airport group BAA will invest £330m in 130/30 strategy funds.
