Asset Managers – Page 391
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Irish e6bn RFP receives 600 replies from managers
IRELAND – The Irish National Treasury Management Agency, the investment management supervisory body for the country’s e7bn National Pensions Reserve Fund, says it has received around 600 expressions of interest for the huge raft of mandates totalling e6bn in assets that it put out to tender last month.....
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Dresdner poaches new global equities head
UK – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has lured Lucy Watson away from Baring Asset Management to become director and head of global equities in London....
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Russell names new client services director
UK – Frank Russell in London has appointed Philippa Drury as director of client services for its institutional investment services team.
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Sanghvi joins Attica to oversee Europe operations
UK/EUROPE - Bina Sanghvi will join Attica Asset Management as a director with responsibility for finance and compliance and for overseeing the firm’s fund structures and European operations from September 3....
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Punter Southall takes on HSBC banker as Principal
UK – Actuarial consultant Punter Southall has brought in John Howard-Smith, a former senior director at HSBC Investment Management to become a principal in the firm’s London office....
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Northern Trust in German joint venture push
GERMANY – Northern Trust Global Investments Europe (NTGI) and Frankfurt based Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba), have set up a joint venture company Helaba NorthernTrust, to offer institutional investment management services to the German market....
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Eurozone slowdown worsening, says Swiss Life
EUROZONE – The economic slowdown across euroland is worsening, according to Swiss Life Asset Management’s (UK) latest global economic summary.....
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Montgomery Oppenheimer is Irish top performer
IRELAND – Irish employee benefits and investments firm, Coyle Hamilton, has published the results of its group pension managed funds survey for the second quarter of 2001 with Montgomery Oppenheimer taking top slot on a five-year basis - returning an annualised 20.6%....
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Merrill Lynch wins new DC and stakeholder mandates
UK – Merill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has secured a mixture of new defined contribution (DC) and stakeholder mandates.
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Dobie to head GAM's marketing division
Global Asset Management (GAM) in London has appointed Clare Dobie as managing director of its marketing division.... And all the week's major people moves...
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Gissings lands UK advisory mandates
UK – Employee benefit and pensions advisory firm, Gissings, has landed two new UK pensions advisory contracts....
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Luxembourg amends international pension funds law
LUXEMBOURG – The Luxembourg supervisory authorities have made a series of amendments to 1999’s pension fund law that introduced the ASSEP and SEPCAV vehicles to the Duchy in a bid to promote the country as an international pension fund centre.....
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Dresdner RCM cashes in with three new wins
UK – Dresdner RCM Global Investors has been selected to run three separate cash mandates totalling £59m (€94m) on behalf of three UK local authorities....
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European hedge fund investment to rise by 500%
EUROPE/HEDGE FUNDS - European investment in hedge funds is expected to grow by around 500% in the coming years, with pension funds and insurance companies representing over three quarters of the new users of the asset class, according to research published today (August 9) by asset management research firm ...
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Hermes lands £220m passive brief from Croydon
UK – The £400m (e645m) London Borough of Croydon pension fund has chosen Hermes Investment Management to run a £220 million FTSE 100 indexed portfolio following a head to head with two other investment management firms....
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TASS records largest ever hedge fund inflows
HEDGE FUNDS - The second quarter of this year saw hedge funds receive their largest inflow of assets in a single quarter since records began, according to figures compiled by hedge fund research outfit TASS.
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AIMR membership passes the 50,000 mark
US – Membership of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR), the world’s largest association of investment professionals, has exceeded the 50,000 mark....
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Japan joins global alternative investment body
UK/GLOBAL – The London based Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has created a new chapter in Japan, bringing the number of chapters worldwide to five....
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DeAM reshuffle precedes Europe high yield launch
UK/US – Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has reshuffled a number of key staff members in its bond teams between the US and London as part of a strategy to strengthen its fixed income capabilities....
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Robeco advises institutions to switch bond indices
NETHERLANDS – Dutch institutional investment manager Robeco has advised its institutional clients holding euro denominated fixed-interest investments to replace the current government loans index with an index consisting of both government loans and credits.....
