Asset Managers – Page 392
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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.....
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Mellon adds Lamere to executive management group
US - Mellon Financial Corporation has named David Lamere as the latest addition to the group’s now eight-member Executive Management Group, the firms most senior management body, which sets corporate strategies and policies and oversees day-to-day operations....
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Royal London gets Carter as CIO
UK – Independent investment management company, Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has a new chief investment officer, Andrew Carter.
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Lopardo quits State Street after 14 years
US – Boston based investor services group, State Street Corporation, has announced that Nicholas Lopardo, vice chairman of State Street Corporation and chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of $727bn (€821bn) State Street global Advisors (SSgA), the group’s investment management arm, has retired from the company…
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Aberdeen Celexa to operate in three European bases
UK / NETHERLANDS / SWEDEN – Aberdeen Celexa Property Investors (ACPI), with €10bn of real estate assets under management and Europe’s largest real estate administrators, is the new name for the joint activities of Celexa Real Estate Investment Management Group (Celexa) and Aberdeen Property Investors (API)...
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New CIO at Phillips & Drew
**New CIO at Phillips & Drew** UK – Matthew Stemp is new chief investment officer at Phillips & Drew (P&D), replacing Robin Apps who has left the company.
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PWC says fund managers face margins halved to 15%
UK – Fund managers will need to take collaborative action to address what have now become industry-wide issues facing the UK’s investment management industry...
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AUM of European institutional managers rise 38%
FRANCE / GERMANY / ITALY / BENELUX – Assets under management by European institutional managers only rose 38% in 2000, compared to 65% in 1999...
