Asset Managers – Page 299
-
News
Dutch employers group warns over pre-pensions
NETHERLANDS – Plans to repair pre-pension in the Netherlands could lead to a ‘pension catastrophe’ a leading employers’ association has warned.
-
News
New Italian institutional fund launched
ITALY - Italian asset manager Arca SGR has launched a mutual fund to meet the needs of institutional investors called Anfiteatro – MultiInvestmentFund.
-
News
State Street downgraded by Fitch
GLOBAL - State Street Corp. has been downgraded by rating agency Fitch, which cited the volatility of the company’s business mix and the challenges of business expansion.
-
News
SEI names Benelux institutional sales head
NETHERLANDS – SEI Investments, provider of asset management and investment technology solutions, has appointed Jeroen van Rooij as institutional sales director for the Benelux region.
-
News
Sweden's AP3 names new management team
SWEDEN - The 142 billion-crown (15.2 billion-euro) Third Swedish National Pension Fund, AP3, has appointed a new nine-strong executive management team that includes two new members.
-
News
Three top executives leave Dutch doctors scheme
NETHERLANDS – The 10.5 billion-euro SBA Artsenpensioenfonds (Pension Fund for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists) in the Netherlands has lost three senior executives over the course of three months, it has emerged.
-
News
RCP unveils German online asset manager tool
GERMANY - Rating agency RCP & Partners has launched a new online tool enabling retail and institutional investors to obtain detailed information about asset managers and their products in either English or German.
-
News
Nomura ousts Schroders at London transport fund
UK – Schroder Investment Management has lost a 215 million-pound (307.2 million-euro) mandate to Nomura Asset Management as the London Regional Transport Pension Fund (LRTPF) changes management for its active Far Eastern Equity portfolio
-
News
BNP Paribas boosts fund of hedge funds business
EUROPE – BNP Paribas Asset Management has boosted its fund of hedge fund business with an agreement to buy a stake in partner firm Fauchier Partners.
-
News
ING sells Baring AM to MassMutual, Northern Trust
GLOBAL – ING Group is to sell Baring Asset Management’s investment management activities to MassMutual, while Northern Trust will buy the unit’s fund administration arm.
-
News
Schroders names Fidelity’s Goossens as Benelux head
BENELUX – Schroders has named Hans Goossens as country head for Benelux, taking a role vacated by Pieter van Daalen in the summer.
-
News
Hazell Carr’s Donaldson joins Higham Group
UK – Pensions outsourcing firm Higham Group has hired Kenneth Donaldson from Hazell Carr Pensions Consulting to be director of business development, pensions.
-
News
UBS portfolio manager to join Kempen
NETHERLANDS – UBS’s Daniel van Akkeren is to join Kempen Capital Management in the Netherlands as a senior portfolio manager of European real estate securities.
-
News
IXIS, Dexia top E5bn French SRI market - report
FRANCE - Caisse d'Epargne’s IXIS Asset Management and Dexia Asset Management top the list of best-known players in the five billion-euro French Socially Responsible Investments market, a survey reveals.
-
News
Capital Group “world’s finest” – Greenwich (correct)
(Corrects name) GLOBAL – Reclusive asset management firm Capital Group is the best professional services firm in the world, according to the founder of consulting firm Greenwich Associates.
-
News
Vanguard hires ABN Amro’s Nagel
NETHERLANDS – Ronald Nagel, former head of institutional sales at ABN Amro Asset Management, has joined Vanguard Investments.
-
News
Italian railway scheme selects first managers
ITALY - Eurofer, the 104 million-euro pension fund for railway workers, has selected its first asset managers.
-
News
Dutch schemes ‘opting for top asset managers’
NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension schemes are increasingly concentrating their assets with the leading asset managers in their field, a new report claims.
-
News
Schroders loses further E3.8bn institutional assets
UK – Schroders says it lost 2.7 billion pounds (3.8 billion euros) in institutional assets in the third quarter, including 1.6 billion pounds in fixed income assets managed for a single client.
-
News
J P Morgan disappointed as F&C opts for Mellon
EUROPE – The merged F&C Asset Management has opted to continue its outsourcing relationship with Mellon Financial Corp., resulting in a loss for a “disappointed” J P Morgan Investor Services.
