Asset Managers – Page 389
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Roberts is new COO at Jones Lang Lasalle
UK/US – Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) has appointed Peter Roberts as the company’s executive vice president and chief operating officer....
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Fidelity appoints institutional head for France
FRANCE – Fidelity Investments has appointed Christophe Gloser as director of its institutional fund management business in France as part of its expansion plans across Europe....
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Emergency list of industry client contacts
As part of our endeavour at IPE Magazine and IPE-Newsline to assist any company within our community affected by events in the US, below is a list of client contact details provided by asset management companies that had offices or staff in the World Trade Centre complex in New York, ...
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Standard and Poor's upbeat on market post disaster
US SPECIAL – Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has issued an upbeat statement on the impact of Tuesday’s terrorist atrocities in the US on global financial markets, claiming that the effects will not be detrimental over the long term....
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Deutsche beefs up Dutch institutional presence
NETHERLANDS - Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has appointed former Barclays Capital Benelux chief Michel Alofs as a senior institutional sales manager for the Netherlands, in what the firm says is a clear indication of its intent to increase institutional business in Holland....
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Giant Italian scheme draws up manager shortlist
ITALY – Fondo Pensione Complementare per la Famiglia (Fondo Famiglia), the Italian housewives’ and part time workers’ pension fund, which could potentially include as many as 15 million members, has drawn up a shortlist of 12 asset management firms to run the fund’s assets....
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Unilever gets date for MAM high court showdown
UK - The £4bn Unilever Superannuation Fund is to finally present its £100m law suit against Mercury Asset Management, instigated in 1999, to the High Court on October 15.....
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AXA pulls in former UBS chief to head up equities
UK/Global - AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has lured Richard Semark from UBS Asset Management to become its London-based global head of equity trading, with effect from November 1....
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Mellon to buy web-based investment solutions firm
US – Mellon Financial Corporation and Eagle Investment Systems have signed an agreement whereby Mellon will acquire Eagle, a privately held developer of web-based investment management software solutions....
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GE poaches Schroders director in Europe push
UK/EUROPE - GE Asset Management has poached Schroders director of international and Scandinavian business, John Simpson, in a bid to expand its European institutional operations....
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Reuters appoints head of asset management branch
UK/US – Reuters has named the executives who will head its four customer segments, following the announcement in June that it was to split its operations into four principal areas: asset management, investment banking and brokerage, corporates and media, and treasury.....
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Gartmore gets green light for SICAV in Ireland
LUXEMBOURG/IRELAND – Gartmore Investment Management’s Luxembourg domiciled SICAV range of funds has gained registration from the Irish authorities to begin marketing in Ireland....
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Swiss banker becomes AIMR chairman
SWITZERLAND/US - Philippe Sarasin, managing partner with international investment bank Lombard Odier & Cie in Geneva, Switzerland, has been elected chair of the board of governors of the 50,000-member Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR).....
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CSAM appoints European equity research head
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has appointed Ella Brown to the position of London head of European equity research....
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ABP appoints Achmea director as CIO for equities
NETHERLANDS - Jan Straatman, the former director of asset management (CIO) at Achmea Global Investors has been appointed as chief investment officer for equities with ABP Investments in Amsterdam, the investment arm of the e150bn Dutch pension fund....
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Friends First Asset Management fuses with F&C
IRELAND – European asset management group F&C is to integrate the money management business of Irish financial group Friends First into its own operations, in a further bid to consolidate the investment management strands of its insurance firm parent Eureko, which bought F&C in May this year.....
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UCW Pensions selects Rothschild for fund assets
UK – The £32m (e52m) UCW Pensions 2001 scheme, which provides pension benefits to sections of the employees and former employees of the Communication Workers Union, has selected Rothschild Asset Management (RAM) to manage a multi-asset mandate for its entire assets....
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Baring produces 'plain English' trustee guide
UK – Baring Asset Management (BAM) has put together a guide on investment management for pension trustees that seeks to cut through the jargon of the asset management world....
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Swedish multinationals club together for DC plan
SWEDEN - A group of multinational firms in Sweden is clubbing together under a collective defined contribution (DC) pension plan in a bid to bundle administration and asset management and to eliminate brokerage commissions....
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Schroders CEO quits as profits slump
UK - David Salisbury, the chief executive of UK investment management group Schroders has quit the firm, following the publication of half-year figures for the group that showed underlying profits down to £74.2 million (e118m) – 7.4% lower than the £80.1 million in profits earned by the same point last ...
