Asset Managers – Page 295
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Asset managers call for pension tax consistency
EUROPE – There has been a new call for consistency in European pension taxation, this time in a report prepared by asset management industry figures.
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Canadian scheme backs Luxembourg’s Honsel
LUXEMBOURG – Ontario-based public pension scheme OMERS has made a US$40.6m (E35m) investment in Luxembourg-based car industry supplier Honsel International Technologies.
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Lothian scheme reappoints Hymans Robertson
UK – The £2bn (€2.85bn) Lothian Pension Scheme has reappointed Hymans Robertson to provide actuarial and investment consulting services.
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Baillie Gifford gets Welsh £340m equity mandate
UK -- The £1bn (€1.44bn) Rhondda Cynon Taf Pension Fund has awarded a £340m UK and global equity mandate to Baillie Gifford & Co. The mandate was formerly managed by Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM).
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ING IM taps Bank of NY for middle office
NETHERLANDS - ING Investment Management has signed a letter of intent for the Bank of New York covering to provide middle office trade and processing outsourcing.
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Further Fidelity move in Germany
GERMANY -- The German arm of Fidelity Investments has further beefed up its new institutional fund business by poaching of a specialist for investment consultants from Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM).
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UK Social Investment Forum seeks chief
UK- The UK Social Investment Forum, a network promoting the development of socially responsible investments among UK investors, is looking for a new executive director.
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AXA IM names Griffiths as UK CEO
UK – AXA Investment Managers has named investment chief Paul Griffiths as chief executive of its UK operations.
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Metallrente posts 48% rise in sales
GERMANY - Metallrente, the pension fund for employees in Germany’s metalworking and engineering industries, has posted a 48% rise in sales of its corporate pension in 2004 despite difficult market conditions.
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New shareholders at MetallRente - report
GERMANY - Metallrente, the pension fund for employees in Germany’s metalworking and engineering industries, looks set to get new shareholders as part of a shake-up aimed at boosting sales.
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Dutch building scheme backs Aareal fund
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch building workers pension scheme has committed equity on behalf of two pension fund clients to a real estate fund run by Aareal.
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Bank of Ireland under scrutiny at Lothian scheme
UK – The £2bn (€2.85bn) Lothian Pension Scheme says it is set to tender for global and Europe (ex-UK) equities, briefs held by troubled Bank of Ireland Asset Management.
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JP Morgan eyes profitable German mandates
GERMANY – The head of JP Morgan Fleming in Germany says that winning profitable mandates is the firm’s top priority.
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Trichet flags up pensions at ECB rate meeting
EUROPE - Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, flagged up the challenge of population ageing and pension systems in the bank’s monthly press conference on monetary policy.
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MN Services names Dutch real estate chief
NETHERLANDS – E24bn investment management company MN Services has named George van Hooydonk as head of its Real Estate Netherlands unit.
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Two Dutch schemes back real estate fund Altera
NETHERLANDS – Physiotherapists’ fund SPF and the pension fund of Cindu International in the Netherlands have invested E22m in Altera Vastgoed, the E1bn private real estate fund has said.
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Allianz Global Investors wins SICK brief
GERMANY - Allianz Global Investors has won one of its first investment mandates for so-called working time accounts, from industrial firm SICK AG.
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MN Services’ real estate head Stouthamer quits
NETHERLANDS – Erwin Stouthamer, head of international real estate at asset liability manager MN Services has left the company, it emerged today.
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Allianz’s Gerdes joins Cominvest as CIO
GERMANY - Wolfram Gerdes, joint chief investment officer of Allianz Global Investors’ Global Vision product, has left the company to succeed Cominvest Asset Management’s CIO, Wolfgang Plum.
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Germany’s Helaba says AUM set to grow by E5bn
GERMANY - Helaba Invest, a major German institutional fund provider, expects to raise its institutional assets under management by E5bn to E24bn by the end of 2005, its chief executive says.
