Asset Managers – Page 322
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State Street joins equity trade platform E-Crossnet
EUROPE – State Street Corp. has become a participant and shareholder in the European equity trading platform E-Crossnet.
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S&P to shift US indices to ‘free float’
US – Standard & Poor’s is to change its US indices so they more closely reflect the amount of shares available to investors.
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Austria’s Raiffeisen buys Russian pension fund
RUSSIA - Raiffeisenbank Austria has bought non-state Russian pension fund Dobroe Delo for an undisclosed sum in a bid to enter the third-pillar market.
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Schroders to spend more on portfolio management
UK – Schroders said it expects to spend more on portfolio management and research this year than it did in the last two years.
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Ethix in talks with institutions, Wassum tie
SWEDEN – Socially responsible investing consultant Ethix has confirmed it may sell a stake to institutional investors – and that it has entered a cooperation with Hewitt affiliate Wassum.
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State Street Jersey fund executive joins ING unit
JERSEY – The head of operations at State Street’s Jersey fund administration unit, Graeme McArthur, has joined ING’s Baring Financial Services Group.
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ISIS invests in alternatives firm Cardinal
UK – ISIS Asset Management is buying a 15% stake in a new alternative investment house called Cardinal for 7.5 million euros.
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PKA taps PIMCO, Schroders and Danske for EM debt
DENMARK – Pensionskassernes Administration, the third largest pension fund in Denmark, says it has awarded emerging market debt mandates to PIMCO, Schroders and Danske.
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Hewitt calls for delay to UK pension tax reform
UK – Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow has called for the planned implementation of UK pension taxation reform to be put back a year.
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FTSE and ISS to create governance indices
EUROPE – Index provider FTSE has teamed up with US governance ratings group ISS to provide corporate governance indices.
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Watson Wyatt pursuing “strategic acquisitions”
GLOBAL – The chief executive of Watson Wyatt & Co. has said the company is pursuing “strategic acquisitions” as part of its growth strategy.
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LGIM's institutional fund mgmt profit falls
UK – Legal & General says the operating profit of its institutional fund management arm LGIM fell to 80 million pounds (119.7 million euros) in 2003 from 92 million pounds in 2002, a decline of 13%.
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CDC IXIS chairman Daniel Roy leaves
FRANCE – Daniel Roy, chairman of CDC IXS Asset Management, is to leave the company and be replaced by the head of the group’s North American operation Peter Voss.
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Threadneedle boosts institutional marketing
UK - Threadneedle Asset Management says it has appointed J P Morgan Fleming’s Louise Valli as institutional marketing project manager.
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Morgan Stanley appoints Ilar for Nordic sales
UK- Morgan Stanley Investment Management(MSIM), the US group’s London-based investment management division, appointed Gartmore Investment Management’s Kristina Ilar to the newly created position of vice-president, responsible for Nordic sales...
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McCaughey resurfaces at Citisoft as senior adviser
UK- Former head of global investor services at HSBC, Terry McCaughey, has joined investment management consulting firm Citisoft as senior adviser to the board of directors...
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UK’s PIRC wants exec pensions “mess” untangled
UK – The head of corporate governance firm Pensions Investment Research Consultants has called for the “mess” surrounding the disclosure of executives’ pension entitlements to be untangled.
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New IPE Real Estate publication launched
GLOBAL – IPE has launched a new quarterly publication, IPE Real Estate, to accompany the main monthly magazine.
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Goldman hires Morgan Stanley’s van Bezooyen
UK – Goldman Sachs has confirmed it has hired Morgan Stanley European pension executive Jeroen van Bezooyen.
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Threadneedle’s multi-manager Attica changes name
UK – Threadneedle Asset Management’s multi-manager arm Attica has changed its name to MM.
