Asset Managers – Page 394
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Altink to head Mellon's European corporate affairs
UK/EUROPE – Jan Altink has been appointed director of corporate affairs for Europe by Pittsburgh based Mellon Financial Corporation.
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BNP Paribas teams up with hedge fund specialist
UK/FRANCE – BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNP PAM) and London based hedge fund specialist firm, Fauchier Partners, have announced the establishment of a joint venture company to manage all of BNP PAM’s hedge funds...
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Singer & Friedlander revamps web presence
UK – Investment manager Singer & Friedlander has relaunched its institutional website to reflect the integration of its funds and asset management divisions....
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PIMCO pulls in $165m in first Danish mandates
DENMARK - US fixed income specialist PIMCO Global Advisors has scooped its first mandates in the Danish market, picking up three high yield briefs from separate pension funds worth a total of $165m (e197m)....
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Mantel to lead Baring UK/Europe investment team
UK/EUROPE – Jan Mantel joins Baring Asset Management (BAM) next week as director and head of its UK and Europe investment team....
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Northern Trust brings in new multi-manager heads
US/UK – Northern Trust Global Advisors, the groups’ multi-manager affiliate, has appointed Margaret Towle as chief investment officer (CIO) and Bill Huffman as chief operating officer (CEO), with both to be based in the US...
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Dutch funds start pooling talks for e5bn in assets
NETHERLANDS – Six Dutch pension funds due to move into shared offices in Rijswijk early next year have started investigations into the pooling of their assets in a move they claim could save them up to e2m per annum....
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Hermes draws the line on company share options
UK – Pension fund manager Hermes Investment Management has drawn a clear line on the debate over executive share option remuneration, by announcing that it will not support resolutions put to shareholders for executive share options re-pricing in any of its 3000 worldwide public company investments....
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Nomura electrified by £55m Pacific basin brief
UK – Nomura Asset Management UK has been appointed to manage a £55m (€91.3m) Pacific basin mandate by London Electricity group pension fund, part of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme....
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Colin Harris steps down as Newton chief executive
UK – Colin Harris, chief executive at Newton and one if its founders, has decided to step down, following the full acquisition of the firm by Mellon....
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£1.9bn Edinburgh fund drops DeAM for Blackrock
UK – The £1.9bn (e3.4bn) City of Edinburgh Council Lothian Pension Fund has pulled an approximately £150m European equities brief from Deutsche Asset Management and split the balance between Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) and Edinburgh based Blackrock....
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Metzler receives 'aa' rating from Fitch AMR
FRANCE – Fitch AMR, the Paris based ratings company, has awarded a ‘aa’ rating to Frankfurt based Metzler Asset Management, which has some €9.5bn in assets under management....
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ABN AMRO launches model fund range
NETHERLANDS – ABN AMRO Asset Management has launched six new Model funds to be listed on the Luxembourg and Amsterdam stock exchanges....
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Deutsche appoints EMEA fund management head
UK - Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has announced the appointments of Brian Collings as head of emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Andrew Ness as a fund manager for the same regions, in a bid to strengthen its global emerging markets investment capability....
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Cordius opens subscriptions for new fund of funds
BELGIUM – Cordius Asset Management has opened the subscription period for a new fund of funds that invests in the shares of other investment funds themselves investing in European equities....
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Swedish manager poaches FIS chief for US push
Stockholm-based asset manager Länsförsäkringar Kapitalförvaltning is beefing up its US operations by recruiting J Robert Bloom as head of its New York office.... And all the week's major people moves...
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Deutsche scoops £2.35bn Royal London custody
UK – Royal London Unit Trust Managers has appointed Deutsche Bank as trustee and custodian to its entire fund assets worth over £2.35bn (e3.91bn)....
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Mercer to build new fund for Johnson Controls
UK - Automotive and building supplies group Johnson Controls has appointed William M.Mercer to set up a new UK pension scheme for its approximately 3,000 employees....
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Invesco gets 'aa' rating from Fitch-AMR
EUROPE – Invesco Continental Europe’s Frankfurt and London investment management offices and its Brussels-based European marketing office have been given an ‘aa’ intrinsic asset management rating by ratings provider Fitch-AMR....
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SEB selects Schroders for SEK12bn advisory brief
SWEDEN/UK – Stockholm based financial services group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has appointed London based asset manager Schroders to advise it on the management of its SEK12bn (e1.3bn) Asian and emerging market equity assets....
