Asset Managers – Page 259
-
News
MetallRente joins enhanced analytics group
GERMANY – MetallRente, the €556m pension fund for Germany’s metalworking and engineering industries, has joined the Enhanced Analytics Initiative.
-
News
Etera investment chief Korhonen joins Kaupthing
EUROPE – Ari Korhonen, chief investment officer at the €5.58bn Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Co. is to take over as head of Kaupthing Asset Management in Finland.
-
News
Union Investment offers overtime accounts
GERMANY – Union Investment has become the latest German fund manager to offer so-called ‘overtime accounts’ – a vehicle that can be used by employees to finance early retirement.
-
News
SSGA names Owen as UK institutional sales head
UK - State Street Global Advisors has named Citigroup Asset Management's Richard Owen as head of institutional sales for the UK and Ireland.
-
News
Institutional chief quits Germany’s Ampega
GERMANY – Ampega AG, the asset management arm of German insurer Talanx, has confirmed that Harald Schnorrenberg, head of Ampega’s institutional business, is resigning as of June 30.
-
News
Germany’s Feri and MLP intensify cooperation
GERMANY – Investment consulting and wealth management firm Feri Finance has agreed to intensify its asset management and investment product tie with independent financial advisor MLP.
-
News
MLIM nabs Henderson institutional’s Davies
UK - Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has hired Henderson Global Investors client relationship head Gareth Davies.
-
News
Gartmore says no change for clients in MBO
UK – UK asset manager Gartmore says there will be “no change” for clients as a result of its private equity-funded management buyout.
-
News
Lærernes Pension names three new managers
DENMARK - Lærernes Pension, the DKK20.1bn €2.7bn Danish teachers’ pension fund, has awarded mandates to Aberdeen Asset Management, MFS and Sydbank.
-
News
FIM Asset Management hires two from Nordea
FINLAND – FIM Asset Management has hired two executives from Nordea, with Petri Aho becoming head of international sales and Jouni Salmenkivi head of fixed income.
-
News
IMA creates new role of head of tax
UK – The Investment Management Association has created a new role of head of tax to help it deal with a higher workload in the area.
-
News
€10bn Grafische names investment head
NETHERLANDS – Grafische Bedrijfsfondsen, the umbrella organisation for the graphics industry’s pension funds, says it has appointed Dirk Wieman as director of investments.
-
News
Metzler says German pensions business booming
GERMANY – Metzler Asset Management says its German corporate pensions business is booming, with contributions from the business set to more than double to €250m in 2006 from €105m in 2005.
-
News
Liontrust loses further €392m of pension assets
UK – Specialist UK equities fund manager Liontrust Asset Management says it lost £268m (€392m) of pension fund assets in the year to the end of March.
-
News
Skandia case’s Bexhed steps down
SWEDEN – Skandia’s Jan-Mikael Bexhed, who steered a prominent pan-European pensions test case through the European Court of Justice, is stepping down as general counsel at the company.
-
News
Cominvest replaces chief investment officer
GERMANY - Cominvest, the asset management arm of Commerzbank, has replaced its chief investment officer Wolfram Gerdes – less than a year and a half after he joined from Allianz.
-
News
Vervoer taps GSAM for €5.4bn fiduciary brief
NETHERLANDS – Dutch industry-wide transport fund Pensioenfonds Vervoer has appointed Goldman Sachs Asset Management to run a €5.4bn fiduciary mandate – resulting in a loss for incumbent F&C.
-
News
Norway’s global fund awards five new mandates
NORWAY – The Government Pension Fund - Global assigned capital to five new mandates in the first quarter – one fixed income and four equities.
-
News
Vontobel, Pictet top Swiss 'alpha league'
SWITZERLAND - Vontobel Asset Management and Pictet & Cie have tied for first place in the new "Alpha League Table" from EuroPerformance and French business school Edhec.
