Asset Managers – Page 317
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DeAM names European real estate securities head
EUROPE - Deutsche Asset Management has hired John Hammond from Schroders as head of European real estate securities - a new business area for the group’s London property division.
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J P Morgan real estate nabs Deutsche's Tyrell
EUROPE - J P Morgan Fleming Asset Management has hired Nick Tyrell as head of European research and strategy for its real estate business.
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IPE launches IPE Netherlands
UK & Netherlands - Investment & Pensions Europe is delighted to announce the launch of IPE Netherlands. The first edition of the new quarterly publication is being dispatched to IPE readers today.
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ABP-State Street’s AIP passes $1bn AUM
GLOBAL – Advanced Investment Partners, a fund manager that is part of ABP and State Street’s venturing alliance, has gone past one billion dollars (843 million euros) under management.
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DeAM nabs Schroders' Hillier for Euro equities
UK - Deutsche Asset Management UK has hired Piers Hillier as head of institutional European equities.
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BGI names European transition head
GLOBAL - Barclays Global Investors has hired Rory Tobin from investment bank J P Morgan as director of transitions, Europe, a new role.
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DeAM names new pensions head as Mössle leaves
GERMANY – Deutsche Asset Management has named Nikolaus Schmidt-Narischkin as the new head of corporate pensions following Klaus Mössle's departure for Fidelity Investments.
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Monarch taps Northern Trust for E90m
UK - Northern Trust is to manage a 60 million-pound (89.9 million-euro) manager-of-managers equities brief for the Monarch Airlines Ltd. Retirement Benefits Plan in the UK.
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ABN Amro asset management AUM rises
GLOBAL – Client assets under management at ABN Amro’s asset management businesses have risen 12.2% in a year – boosted by the UK, Netherlands and Nordic regions.
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LGIM wins E8.1bn in new institutional business
UK – Legal & General Investment Management won 5.4 billion pounds (8.1 billion euros) of new institutional business in the first quarter of 2004, a 93% increase on the same quarter a year ago.
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State Street trading arm names operating head
GLOBAL – State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corp., has hired former Credit Suisse First Boston executive Robert Sisti as global head of operations.
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Swedish life insurer SPP plans mutual vote
SWEDEN – Swedish life insurer SPP’s policy-holders will vote in the next few months over whether it should demutualise, parent Svenska Handelsbanken said.
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French SRI reaches E4.5bn - Novethic
FRANCE - The size of socially responsible investments in France reached 4.5 billion euros at the end of March from 4.4 billion euros at the end of December, reveals a report by Novethic, a subsidiary of CDC-IXIS.
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Robeco seeks “forceful” institutional growth
NETHERLANDS – Robeco, reporting a 48% rise in net profit, says it is looking to “forcefully grow” its European institutional business.
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ING adopts “more active” voting policy
GLOBAL – ING Group, whose asset management businesses run about 162 billion euros of equity assets, says it will adopt a “more active” role as an institutional investor.
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Sappi scheme taps LGIM for inflation-linked
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch pension fund of South Africa-based paper maker Sappi has awarded a 16.25 million-euro inflation-linked bond mandate to Legal & General Investment Management.
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Mercer retirement services revenues rise 1%
GLOBAL - Mercer's retirement services revenue rose one percent on an underlying basis to 350 million dollars in the first quarter, says parent company Marsh & McLennan Cos.
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Northern Trust assets under administration up 44%
GLOBAL – Total assets under administration at Northern Trust Corp. rose by 44% to 2.3 trillion dollars in the first quarter, the company said.
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F&C eyes expansion in France
FRANCE - F&C has hired Bruno Moneron from J P Morgan Fleming to lead its expansion in France.
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Bateman awards E30m to MM
UK - The pension scheme of hearing and optical products firm Bateman has awarded Threadneedle’s MM Asset Management a 20 million-pound (29.9 million-euros) multi-manager mandate.
