Asset Managers – Page 387
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Crédit Agricole starts funds in Holland and Norway
NETHERLANDS/NORWAY – Crédit Agricole has gained approval from regulatory authorities in both the Netherlands and Norway to begin marketing the group’s Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV, CA-Funds, to institutional investors....
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Rothschild names new fixed income head
UK - Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) has appointed Abdallah Nauphal as the new head of its fixed income & currency group....
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Northern Trust in €125m Italian multi-manager win
ITALY – Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has won a mandate to run four €125m seeded mutual funds for Italian banking group, Mediolanum.
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Credit Suisse buys SLC Asset Management
UK - Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has acquired SLC Asset Management Group (SLCAM), the UK asset management subsidiary of Sun Life Financial of Canada, in a deal that will add around £11bn to CSAM’s assets under management.....
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Axa strengthens equity research
UK – Axa Investment Managers has added two new analysts to its equity research team in London. Both will cover financials.
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AXA IM confirmed as GIPS compliant
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has been confirmed as compliant with GIPS - the Global Investment Performance Standards, as well as attaining the Association for Investment Management and Research’s (AIMR) PPS grade (Performance Presentation Standards)....
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Outsourcing management key trend on Continent
EUROPE – Institutional investors across continental Europe are increasingly outsourcing their asset management, according to the results of a soon to be published survey by Greenwich Associates(GA), the Connecticut based research and consultancy firm.
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France’s NBP in European multi-manager drive
FRANCE – Paris based Natexis Banques Populaires (NBP) has launched a new multi-management and investor services specialist subsidiary, Asset Square...
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Hermes expands management team post Myners
UK - Hermes Focus Asset Management (HFAM), one of the UK’s largest institutional fund managers, has expanded and reorganised its management team in response to calls in the UK Myners report for greater intervention by shareholders in investee companies....
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Towers poaches two from rival William M.Mercer
UK – Benefits consultancy firm, Towers Perrin, has poached two business development consultants, Martin Good and Jason Kenny, from rival consultants William M. Mercer....
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German chemical industry to create huge fund
GERMANY – The German chemical employers association, the Bundesarbeitgeberverband Chemie (BAVC) has laid down a framework with the industry’s trade union, the Industiregewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG-BCE), for the creation of a potentially 590,000 strong industry-wide pension fund....
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Moessle elected to head European AM association
EUROPE – The European Asset Management Association (EAMA) has elected Klaus Moessle of Deutsche Asset Management in Frankfurt as its president....
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S&P and Crédit Lyonnais in European ETF tie-up
FRANCE/EUROPE – Standard & Poor’s and Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management (CLAM) have entered into a partnership to sell exchange traded funds (ETFs) to institutional and retail investors in the European market under S&P’s SPDR brand....
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Wassum in strategic alliance with Hewitt
SWEDEN -International consultants Hewitt Associates have formed a strategic alliance with Nordic advisers Wassum Investment Consulting, as part of its plans for global coverage.
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Lasalle launches e500m European property fund
EUROPE – Lasalle Investment Management (LIM)has launched its new €500m Euro Growth II fund, a real estate investment fund to be invested in properties across Western Europe....
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Skinner to head Gartmore fixed-income team
UK – Gartmore Investment Management has appointed Paul Skinner as head of fixed income business development....
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HSBC-CCF buys back Sinopia Asset Management
FRANCE - HSBC CCF Asset Management has begun to buy back the stake in Paris-based quant firm Sinopia Asset Management that it floated in 1998, with the purchase of over a million shares from Belgium’s KBC Group, Spanish bank BBVA and Mellon Financial Corporation for a price of e27.5 per ...
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Danish pension insurers in bonus reserve wipeout
DENMARK – PFA, the Danish insurance group has announced losses of some DKK 18.2 billion – completely wiping out the group’s bonus reserves and forcing it’s pensions arm into emergency talks with the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority - as a result of falling equity markets after the shock in the ...
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State Street hires new head of investor relations
State Street Corporation has appointed S. Kelley MacDonald senior vice president and head of investor relations....
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SEB hires Klagsburn to head new investment unit
SWEDEN - Harry Klagsbrun has been named as the new executive vice president of Swedish financial services group SEB and head of SEB Invest, its investment management arm....
