Asset Managers – Page 391
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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...
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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.....
