Asset Managers – Page 357
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SEB names Lager to head mutual fund unit
SWEDEN – SEB Asset Management has named Cecilia Lager as head of its mutual fund arm, SEB Fonder, replacing Jan Palmberg who is moving to another role within SEB.
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Credit Suisse Asset Mgmt reorganises management
GLOBAL – Credit Suisse Asset Management has made a series of organisational changes, including the formation of a global executive committee and a reduction in the number of operating regions in a bid to bring the company in line with the Credit Suisse group.
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Hermes governance fund wins $100m Calpers backing
EUROPE/US – Calpers, eyeing a “tremendous opportunity”, has approved a 100 million dollar investment in a Hermes corporate governance fund which targets underperforming companies.
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Allianz chief Schulte-Noelle to step down
GERMANY – Beleaguered insurer Allianz AG says the chairman of its management board, Henning Schulte-Noelle, is to resign and be replaced by Michael Diekmann, a board member who is currently head of insurance activities in North and South America.
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J P Morgan wins Oppenheimer custody mandate
UK/US - J P Morgan Investor Services says it has been awarded a mandate to provide a “wide range of services” to OppenheimerFunds Inc.’s mutual fund assets – though it declined to say how much the deal was worth.
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MLIM says it’s still winning European mandates
UK – Merrill Lynch Investment Managers says it is still winning “significant levels" of new mandates across Europe, despite a series of recent losses from UK local authority pension funds and its loss of the Merrill Lynch UK Investment Trust mandate.
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Sweden’s AP3 taps CoreRatings for SRI
SWEDEN – The 13.9 billion euro AP Fonden 3 Swedish pension fund says it has hired consultancy firm CoreRatings to provide socially-responsible investing advice, adding that it will take an active role in the companies in which it invests.
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Threadneedle to run e155m Russell equity mandate
UK - Threadneedle Asset Management has been appointed to run a 100 million pound (155 million euro) UK equity mandate for Frank Russell Co.
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French bank merger “won’t be easy” – source
FRANCE – Credit Agricole’s 19.5 billion euro bid for Credit Lyonnais would create an entity with a combined 5.6 billion euros in European pension assets under management – though a source close to the deal says a merger won’t be easy because of the banks' different cultures.
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Russell sees “substantial” European growth
SPAIN – Multi-manager specialist Frank Russell Co. says it has seen “substantial growth in Europe this year” - adding that it has been awarded 30 new institutional client mandates across Europe for its multi-manager funds so far in 2002.
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Deutsche segregates e3.6bn in pension obligations
GERMANY - Deutsche Bank has segregated 3.6 billion euros of its German employee pension obligations, removing them from the balance sheet and creating a separate fund that will be managed by Deutsche Asset Management.
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Merrill Lynch loses $543m Calpers bond mandate
US – The 128 billion dollar California Public Employees' Retirement System, Calpers, has dropped Merrill Lynch Investment Managers from its international fixed income manager line-up. MLIM had been managing a 543 million dollar portfolio, accounting for 8.73% of Calpers’ entire fixed income portfolio.
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Downturn forces Nordea IM to cut 15% of staff
SWEDEN – Nordea Investment Management, the fourteenth largest manager of European pension fund assets, says it will cut its payroll by 55 or 15% due to the “continued unfavourable business environment”.
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UK’s IMA seeks European policy analyst
UK – The UK-based Investment Management Association, a trade body for the asset management industry, says it is looking to hire a European policy analyst as it takes on a greater role in Europe.
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AP4 awards e384m Japan mandate to Martin Currie
SWEDEN – Fjarde AP-Fonden, the 13.4 billion euro Swedish state pension fund, has named three managers for Japan and Asia-Pacific equities mandates – Martin Currie, Capital and APS.
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Mellon the winner in HVB multi-manager launch
GERMANY – Mellon Financial Corp. is the biggest winner in HVB Group’s decision to launch the first ever German multi-manager programme for institutional clients, by winning seven of the 24 asset management slots available as well as other business, including custody.
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Britannic Asset Mgmt to cut one in eight jobs
UK – Glasgow-based Britannic Asset Management is to lose 12.5% of its staff in a bid to cut costs. Cuts will be across the board, with estimates of 40 redundancies in total.
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Norway’s Storebrand rejigs management
NORWAY – Insurer and pensions provider Storebrand says it is to revamp its management following the merger with private bank Finansbanken.
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Mutual funds are best channel for Italy - Cerulli
ITALY – The Italian mutual fund advisory programme market is the most effective way to penetrate the Italian asset management market, says Boston-based asset management research and consulting firm, Cerulli Associates.
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UK: Schroder Property wins Tower Hamlets mandate
UK – UK local authority Tower Hamlets’ pension fund is to switch its 40 million pound (62.6 million euro) property allocation to a property unit trust run by Schroder Property Investment Management.
