Asset Managers – Page 308
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Singer & Friedlander CEO Hodson stands down
UK – John Hodson is to stand down as chief executive of Singer & Friedlander after 12 years in the job and be replaced by finance director Tony Shearer.
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Ross Goobey out at Hermes Europe arm
UK - Alastair Ross Goobey, chairman of BT Pension Scheme-owned Hermes Focus Asset Management Europe, has stepped down over a perceived conflict of interest.
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DeAM names European distribution head
UK - Deutsche Asset Management has appointed Insight Investments’ Mark Connolly to the new position of European head of institutional distribution, a new role.
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London exchange issues governance guide
UK – The London Stock Exchange has published a guide to corporate governance in association with consulting firm RSM Robson Rhodes.
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Mellon names UK pooled fund manager
UK - Mellon Global Investments has appointed David Holding to the new role of pooled fund account manager to its institutional pooled fund team.
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Commerzbank reorganises consultant relations
GERMANY - Commerzbank has reallocated responsibilities for consultant relations to give a larger share to its London-based subsidiary, Jupiter Asset Management.
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Citigroup outlines plans for global property arm
GLOBAL - The new chief executive of Citigroup’s real estate arm has outlined its plans to create a “top tier” global real estate investment management business in an interview with IPE Real Estate.
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Invesco German economist Kraemer joins HVB
GERMANY- Invesco Asset Management Deutschland’s Joerg Kraemer is to leave the company to join Munich-based HypoVereinsbank.
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UK pension tax-relief move hits dividends – BOE
UK – The controversial removal of tax relief on dividend payments to pension funds is estimated to have cut company dividends by 31%, according to a Bank of England study.
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Irish reserve fund plans E400m real estate move
IRELAND - The 10 billion-euro National Pensions Reserve Fund has appointed F&C’s Ian Gleeson as property manager to oversee a planned 400 million-euro real estate allocation.
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Hermes’ Macdonell joins Northern Trust
UK - Northern Trust Global Investments says it has hired Hermes Focus Asset Management’s manager of UK investments, Helen Macdonell.
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Ex-Singer & Friedlander chief joins hedge fund
UK – Former Singer & Friedlander institutional head Peter Dencik has joined hedge fund group Key Asset Management as chief executive.
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E1.2bn county council Warwick revamps
UK - The 800 million-pound (1.18 billion-euro) Warwickshire County Council Pension Fund has reshuffled its asset managers in a revamp.
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Henderson makes institutional, consultant hires
UK - Henderson Global Investors has made two new hires, boosting its institutional and consultant relations activities.
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UK pension assets rise 16% to E1tn – report
UK – Pension fund assets in the UK have risen 16% to 709 billion pounds (1.06 trillion euros) as at the end of 2003, according to a new report.
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F&C institutional assets hit by pension outflows
EUROPE – F&C, which is being bought by ISIS Asset Management, lost almost four percent of its institutional assets under management in the first half of 2004.
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Hermes names new management team
UK – David Pitt-Watson, managing director of Hermes Pensions Management’s UK Focus Fund, is to take over from Peter Butler after his resignation on Tuesday.
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Schroders loses E5.9bn in UK balanced mandates
UK – Schroders says it lost four billion pounds (5.9 billion euros) in balanced mandates in the first half as UK clients continued to restructure their portfolios – but added the revenue impact is “limited”.
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Julius Baer gains institutional assets (Correct)
(Corrects euro figure) SWITZERLAND – Julius Baer Group says its first-half income was boosted by a six billion-franc (3.9 billion-euro) rise in institutional assets under management.
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Commission splits internal markets and taxation
EUROPE - New European Commission president José Manuel Baroso has appointed two commissioners to run the internal markets and taxation departments that Frits Bolkestein used to head on his own.
