Asset Managers – Page 395
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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....
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Russell get GIPS standards green light
UK – Multi-manager investment firm Frank Russell has been confirmed as compliant to both the UK Investment Performance Standards (UKIPS) and the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) for its Dublin-based umbrella fund range....
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Van Lanschot hires FMC for investment operations
NETHERLANDS – ‘s-Hertogenbosch based private and institutional asset manager Van Lanschot Asset Management has selected the Financial Models Company (FMC) to manage its front-to-back office investment operations....
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Sampo names new investor relations head
FINLAND/SCANDINAVIA – Jarmo Salonen has been promoted to head of investor relations at Helsinki based financial services group Sampo, from September 1...
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EAMA questions EU legislators on indexation
EUROPE - The European Asset Management Association (EAMA) has published a collection of essays questioning European Union legislators’ approaches to the indexation of investments....
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Sweden's AP2 and AP3 funds make top level hires
SWEDEN – The government pension buffer funds AP2 and AP3 have made a number of top level appointments to their in-house investment teams....
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INVESCO restructures retail and institutional arms
UK – INVESCO has restructured its UK organisation in order to focus on its separate retail and institutional businesses and deal with the group’s expansion following the acquisitions of Perpertual and GT....
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Huerta to lead Spanish institutional sales at R&SA
Victoria Huerta has been appointed as sales director of retail and institutional funds at the Madrid office of Royal & Sun Alliance Investments Luxembourg.... And all the week's major people moves....
