Asset Managers – Page 369
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Icelandic fund picks MFS for $100m equity mandate
ICELAND- Iceland’s largest pension fund, LSR, has appointed MFS Investment Management to run a segregated global equity mandate that will eventually be worth $100m.
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Lazard appoints new head of UK operation
UK – New York-based Lazard Asset Management (LAM) has appointed Bill Smith as managing director and co-chief executive officer to take care of its London-based UK operation.
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Invesco launches DC products in Germany
GERMANY – Asset management group Invesco is set to enter the new German occupational pension fund market by the Autumn. Encouraged by the Riester reforms, the group’s planned defined contribution products will comprise either multi-employer funds or single pension schemes for larger companies.
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F&C investment head quits for public sector career
UK- Arnab Banjeri, head of investments as F&C Management is leaving to pursue a career in public services following his appointment last year as a member of the advisory panel of a government think tank.
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Watson Wyatt's Stockholm head leaves for Nordea
SWEDEN – Johan Sidenmark has left Watson Wyatt Worldwide’s Stockholm office nine months after joining the benefits and investment consultancy from rivals Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
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Valeiras quits Morgan Stanley for Applegate CM
UK – Morgan Stanley Investment Management in London has announced that Horacio Valeiras, head of its global core equity team, has left the company to join San Diego-based Nicholas Applegate Capital Management as chief investment officer.
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Sandler review outlines need to slash red tape
UK- A long-awaited report into the UK’s savings market has delivered a harsh verdict on an industry it says is expensive, overly-complicated and inefficient.
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State Street names UK relationship management head
UK- State Street Corporation has appointed Paul Chapman to serve as head of relationship management and strategic marketing for its UK operation.
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Bosch launches new supplementary fund
GERMANY – Stuttgart-based household appliance manufacturer Robert Bosch has launched a new supplementary pension fund for its 102,000 domestic workers. The company is awaiting regulatory approval from the German federal financial services supervisory board, BAFin.
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Inco picks Rothschild for £20m specialist mandate
UK- The £60m European pension plan of Inco, the Canadian mining company, has appointed Rothschild Asset Management to manage its £20m specialist UK equity investment portfolio.
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UK to publish two pension review reports this week
UK– The government is this week publishing two reports containing plans to simplify the range of pensions available and to break down the barriers to saving. Both reports call on the government to reform the way pensions and savings products are sold so they can effectively be bought “off the ...
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Parliament to hold hearing on financial regulation
EU- The European Parliament’s economic and monetary affairs committee is holding a public hearing on the supervision of financial services next Tuesday in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom collapses.
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Gartmore appoints director for UK clients
UK- Geraldine Wright is joining Gartmore as an account director for UK institutional clients, a role that sees her responsible for a number of pension fund clients. Wright will report to head of client services Elaine Gordon and will work closely with both the client service and investment management teams.
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Dutch funds' PZH picks Vanguard for e450m mandate
NETHERLANDS- PZH, the body working on behalf of six medium-sized Dutch funds that began co-ordinating their operations earlier this year, has awarded Vanguard Investment a e450m passive mandate.
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Metcalfe joins Hermes as business development head
UK- Hermes, the £46bn investment manager owned by the British Telecom pension fund, has appointed Charlie Metcalfe as head of business development and deputy chief executive.
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Style Research hires Peter Hopkins from Baring AM
UK – London-based equity research and portfolio analysis firm, Style Research has appointed Peter Hopkins as a new partner in its London office.
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Pioneer hires Citigroup for e30bn custody mandate
US/LUXEMBOURG – Global financial services company, Pioneer Investments, has appointed Citigroup Global Securities Services as global custodian to its $30bn (€30.3bn) Luxembourg-domiciled mutual fund business.
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SWIP appoints de Bruijn from Shell pension fund
UK – Edinburgh-based asset management group, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), has appointed Jan de Bruijn as a senior fund manager to its Asia and merging markets team. De Bruijn will join SWIP in August.
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F&C appoints head of Dutch operation
NETHERLANDS- Henk Breukink has been named as head of F&C Management’s operations in the Netherlands as of next month. Breukink has been interim head of the Dutch operation since last November and he takes over the job from chairman of the board Alain Grisay.
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CLAM Spiders authorised for UK market
EUROPE/UK – The SPDR Europe 350 and SPDR Euro exchange traded funds (ETFs), the ETF range launched in a joint venture earlier this year between index provider Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and French investment management group, Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management, have been authorised for sale in the UK.
