Asset Managers – Page 355
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New pensions consultant enters UK market
UK - Chris Edge, the erstwhile founder of Pavillion Asset Management and a former head of sales and marketing at Royal London Asset Management is set to switch hats by launching a new investment consultant into the UK institutional market next month.
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Cerulli: Manager acquistions not yielding results
US – The asset management industry may be getting better at investing in other asset management firms, but it is still not yielding added value overall...
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Inalytics hires for buy-side transaction cost team
UK - Inalytics, the transaction cost measurement company has made a string of new hires to augment a new buy-side transaction cost analysis (TCA) team...
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Ex-KPMG pensions head Evers joins Aon
UK – Actuarial consultant Aon has hired Charles Evers, a former head of KPMG’s pensions practice, as a principal in its executive benefits practice.
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Honig to head Rabobank’s Robeco in France
FRANCE – Andre Honig has been named managing director of Robeco Gestions in Paris, the French arm of Dutch bank Rabobank’s asset management division.
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HBOS names Insight department heads
UK – HBOS’s asset management arm, Insight Investment, has announced the new heads of desk for its teams following the acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management in December.
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Pension funds back France's Activa buyout fund
FRANCE – Paris-based private equity firm Activa Capital has attracted European pension funds and fund managers, with a first close of 90 million euros on its mid-market buyout fund.
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Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow boosts UK investment team
UK – Consultancy firm Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow has recruited four new members to its investment team following increased demand.
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Fortis Investment Mgmt opens Milan sales office
ITALY – Fortis Investment Management has opened a sales office in Milan, following the establishment of offices in Frankfurt and Vienna last year.
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Invesco hires DC experts from Deutsche, Mercers
UK – Invesco has hired the head of Deutsche Asset Management’s defined contributions sales and a European principal from Mercer Human Resource Consulting as it seeks to gain market share.
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Regulator approves new Italian transport fund
ITALY – Italy’s regulatory authorities have given the all-clear to a new complementary industry-wide pension fund for Italy’s workers in public transport services and associated companies, Fondo Priamo.
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AIMR calls for investors’ interests to come first
US – Following a string of corporate scandals, the Association for Investment Management and Research has made a plea for investors’ interests to come first.
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MLIM assets fall for third year in a row
GLOBAL – Merrill Lynch Investment Managers’ assets under management fell in 2002 for the third consecutive year.
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Italy’s Generali to develop asset management
ITALY – The Generali Group plans to develop its asset management business despite reporting first time losses for 2002 and plans to cut 2,800 jobs over the next three years.
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Ex-Invesco CEO joins CSTIM board
UK – The former chief executive of Invesco UK, Hugh Ward, has joined the board of CSTIM, or Consulting Services to Investment Managers, as a non-executive director.
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Switzerland’s Partners in venture with Sauerborn
GERMANY/SWITZERLAND – Swiss alternative asset manager Partners Group and German private asset manager and financial service provider Sauerborn Trust AG (formerly FERI Family Office AG) have launched a joint venture in Switzerland aimed at high net worth individuals.
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RLAM names institutional sales manager
UK – Royal London Asset Management has named Barclays Global Investors’ client director Mark Willmott as its new institutional sales manager.
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Credit Suisse Asset Management boosts UK team
UK – Credit Suisse Asset Management is boosting its UK fixed income team with the appointment of Fidelity’s Richard White as a portfolio manager.
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UK: Higgs governance proposals welcomed
UK – A new set of proposals aimed at reforming the role of non-executive directors in UK companies has been broadly welcomed by the industry, though some say institutional shareholders will have to do their bit as well.
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Germany to amend capital gains tax proposals
GERMANY – Proposals to apply a new capital gains tax to both profits that funds make on investments and gains investors make on the funds are to be amended.
