Asset Managers – Page 378
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SWIP bans soft commissions for pension clients
UK – Edinburgh based fund management group, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has stopped soft commissioning, the ‘hidden’ brokerage charge, for its pension fund clients.
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AP7 bars 26 more groups from its portfolio
SWEDEN – The €2.6bn Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund, AP7, has sold its shares in 26 global companies, including CocaCola, General Motors, Unilever and BP Amoco, because it claims they “failed to satisfy the fund’s environmental and ethical requirements”.
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INVESCO beefs up UK institutional equity team
UK- INVESCO has appointed Daniel Roberts to its UK institutional equity desk in London. Roberts will report to Robert Churchlow, head of UK institutional equities and his appointment takes the team to four.
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Pioneer and Rolo merging to create €36bn outfit
ITALY – Milan based asset management firms, Pioneer Investments and Rolo Pioneer are to merge, forming a fund management group with some €36bn under management, as well as a combined Luxembourg-based fund operation worth €32.5bn.
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MLIM/Unilever will lead to manager consolidation
UK- Former CIO of Phillips & Drew Tony Dye has told a gathering of 400 asset managers in London that the fund management industry will consolidate into large firms focusing on marketing following the court case between the Unilever pension fund and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.
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UBS rebrands its asset management
GLOBAL- UBS Asset Management is bringing its asset management companies under a single global brand known as UBS Global Asset Management as of April 8th.
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Union to meet UK government to discuss DB closures
UK – The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is to meet the government to discuss the TUC’s concerns over the number of defined benefit (DB) schemes being closed.
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AP7 finally gets e195m alternatives approval
SWEDEN- The board of Sweden’s e2.6bn AP7 fund has finally given the go ahead to invest 8% of the portfolio in hedge funds and private equity. A week ago the fund delayed the decision due to concerns about pricing the investments into daily NAV calculations and about them meeting the ...
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Little replaces Groom as Mellon Global CEO
UK – Mellon Global Investments has appointed Jon Little as its new chief executive officer in place of Jon Groom, who is leaving the company for personal reasons.
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Ashcourt to launch property growth fund
UK – Ashcourt Asset Management is to launch the Residential Property Growth (RPG) fund in March, a real estate investment fund company that will purchase residential property throughout England and Wales.
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Shell sells e400m Dutch real estate portfolio
NETHERLANDS- Shell pension fund has sold its e400m Dutch commercial real estate portfolio to a syndicate of Bouwfonds Asset Management, Inflation Exchange Fund and MN Services.
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EU- Spain pushes quantitative investment rules
EU- The Spanish presidency of the European Union is leading a move to persuade the European Council to include quantitative investment rules – the so called prudent man plus principle – in the proposed pensions directive.
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Boehringer retains Schroders as sole manager
UK – London based asset management group Schroders has been reappointed by pharmaceutical manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim to manage its £80m (€131m) UK pension fund.
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Barra executives launch rival consultancy
US – Five former executives at California-based investment consultancy, Barra Strategic Consulting have broken away to form a new firm Casey, Quirk & Acito, which will provide strategic advice to the investment management industry.
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Sandeberg succeeds Nillson as AP1 CEO
SWEDEN- Sweden’s e14.2bn AP1 fund has appointed William af Sandeberg as CEO to replace Lennart Nillson who has retired.
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AP2 to drop external managers after ALM study
SWEDEN – Sweden’s €14.4bn AP2 fund has put out a tender for a consultant actuary to undertake a new ALM study to determine its long-term investment strategy. According to AP2, some of the external managers’ contracts will be terminated as the study will lead to some of the assets being ...
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LRT drops Baring AM from £500m UK equity mandate
UK – The £3.5bn (€5.7bn) London Regional Transport Pension Fund has dropped Baring Asset Management (BAM) from a UK equity mandate originally worth £500m (€821m) in favour of AllianceBernstein and Baillie Gifford.
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Northern Trust beefs up its research team
UK- Northern Trust has beefed up the research department of it multi manager business with the appointment of John Greene as International research analyst. Greene will work with director of research Michael Kinney to carry out research in continental Europe and the UK.
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CDC IXIS launches long/short large cap fund
FRANCE – CDC IXIS Asset Management has launched a long/short alternative investment fund, a Dublin registered non-market neutral vehicle with a European large cap investment bias.
