Asset Managers – Page 390
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Deutsche lures equity specialist from Dresdner
UK/US - Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has hired Steven Laughton from Dresdner RCM in San Francisco as a global equity portfolio manager, in a bid to strengthen the firms global equity capabilities....
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Danske outsources high yield fund to ING
NETHERLANDS/DENMARK – Danske Capital, the asset management arm of Danske Bank, has appointed ING Investment Management to manage its e200m global high yield fund....
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Britannic buys Blairlogie Capital Management
UK – Glasgow-based Britannic Asset Management (BAM) is to buy Blairlogie Capital Management from its current owner ABN AMRO Asset Management for an undisclosed sum....
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ABP elects Brinkman as new chairman
NETHERLANDS – The Heerlen based e150bn ABP pension fund has elected Elco Brinkman to become the new chairman of the ABP Council from September 1....
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ABP appoints US quant manager to large cap brief
NETHERLANDS – The e150bn Heerlen based ABP pension fund has appointed US equity quant manager Advanced Investment Technologies (AIT) to manage a large cap core equities portfolio....
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Mercer poaches Phillips & Drew executive
UK/EUROPE - Piers Bertlin has been appointed as a senior investment Consultant and European Partner with William M. Mercer in London, in a move from UK investment manager Phillips & Drew.....
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JPMorgan Fleming merges life companies
UK - JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management is to merge its two heritage life companies by October in a bid to open up its pooled fund range for the UK pensions market.
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Attica wins Allied Worldwide multi-manager mandate
UK - The £40m Allied Worldwide pension scheme has appointed Attica Asset Management (Attica) to manage its entire asset pool through the firm’s multi-manager structure....
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Royal Trust wins huge $33bn custody mandate
Royal Trust Global Securities Services (GSS) has been awarded a huge $33bn (e36bn) global custody mandate by the Caymen Islands based triple A-rated specialist finance company, Sigma Finance Corporation.....
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Dutch fund head to chair Swiss private equity firm
NETHERLANDS/SWITZERLAND – Marinus Keijzer, chief investment officer of the Zeist based Emeritaatsfonds GKN pension fund and for 10 years a well known figure at Dutch superfund PGGM, is one of five new proposed board members of Swiss private equity firm 5e Holding....
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Slater to head up Attica multi-manager marketing
UK – Attica Asset Management has appointed Nick Slater as its director of marketing and client service with responsibility for consultant relationships and marketing to clients of the group’s multi-manager division....
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Online research group opens German office
EUROPE - FactSet Research Systems, the online provider of financial and economic information to the investment banking and investment management communities, has opened its first continental European office in Frankfurt, Germany....
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FIS makes UK management changes
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) has announced two new senior UK management changes, with Peter Arthur becoming managing director for the group’s retail and institutional business and Barry Sanjana, chief investment officer (CIO), joining the board as an Executive Director....
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Royal London could enter UK DC market by year end
UK – Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) says it could enter the UK defined contribution (DC) pensions market by the end of the year, leveraging on the dc solutions platform it acquired with the buy-out of Scottish Life in October last year....
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Northern Trust wins SFr447m BAT Swiss fund mandate
SWITZERLAND - Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) has been awarded the mandate to manage the entire assets of the SFr447m ($270m) British American Tobacco (BAT) Swiss pension fund through its multi-manager structure....
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Pilling to head up Morley pooled funds team
UK – Lyndsey Pilling has joined Morley Pooled Pensions as manager of the firm’s pooled funds team....
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Property grows as volatility rocks equity marts
GLOBAL- Property continues to grow as an asset class as volatility continues to impact adversely on equity markets and low interest rates make real estate more attractive, according to new research by DTZ.....
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Competition will drive stakeholder fees below 1%
UK – Fierce competition in the UK’s new stakeholder pension scheme market will drive the controversial one per cent fee even lower, says employee benefits consultancy, Gissings.....
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Standard & Poors extends European fund ratings
EUROPE – Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has assigned two new ratings to funds run by Fortis Investment Management and reconfirmed three ratings of funds from CDC IXIS Asset Management, as part of an expanded European fund rating programme.
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Henderson and Merrill good for Environment Agency
UK – The UK Environment Agency has dropped Schroder Investment Management from a £430m mandate and in its place hired Henderson Global Investors to manage a £330m balanced mandate and boosted an existing Merrill Lynch brief by a further £100m...
