Asset Managers – Page 398
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Dexia bids for Kempen to boost Dutch presence
LUXEMBOURG/NETHERLANDS – Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Dexia BIL) has made an approved e1.05bn takeover bid for Amsterdam based mid and small cap specialist investment group Kempen & Co...
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ABP appoints ABN AMRO Mellon for e50bn custody
NETHERLANDS – Europe’s largest pension fund the e150bn Heerlen based ABP scheme for Dutch government and education employees has appointed ABN AMRO Mellon as custodian for around e50bn in European assets....
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Dawson to lead State Street's Scottish operations
UK – Alan Dawson has been appointed vice president of State Street’s client services for its Investment Management Solutions business in Edinburgh....
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State Street bags CHF500m passive SRI brief
SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Federal Social Security Fund (Ausgleichsfonds der Alters -und Hinterlassenenversicherung) has awarded a CHF500m (e326m) passive socially responsible investment (SRI) mandate to State Street Global Advisors (SSGA)...
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DnB in late bid to foil Sampo/Storebrand merger
FINLAND/NORWAY – Den Norske Bank (DnB) made an eleventh hour bid for Norwegian asset manager Storebrand last night (May 20), just before Finnish financial services group Sampo and Storebrand were to hold a press conference promoting a merger between the two, a deal which would create the sixth largest asset ...
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DrKW names new German head of investment banking
GERMANY – Thomas Schwingeler is joining Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s Frankfurt office in the late summer as managing director of investment banking....
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BAM appoints new UK/Europe asset management head
UK/EUROPE – Baring Asset Management (BAM) has poached Percival Stanion from BNP Paribas Asset Management to become a head of UK and European investment management....
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CAAM launches a new sector neutral European fund
EUROPE - Crédit Agricole Asset Management is launching a new Europen equity research fund, based on the recommendations of its 17 in-house analysts...
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New Star hires Goldsmith for offshore push
Philip Goldsmith has been appointed managing director of London based New Star International Investment Funds, and all other major people moves of the week
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JP Morgan picks up best European custodian award
EUROPE – JP Morgan Investor Services has picked up the award for best overall global custodian in Europe for the second year running in the annual Global Investor custody client satisfaction survey....
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Europe's first Dow Jones blue chip ETF launched
FRANCE – Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of Société Générale Group, today (May 17) issued the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average....
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French manager launches first hedge fund
FRANCE – Paris based Sinopia Asset Management has launched its first alternative investment product – a long/short bond and money market hedge fund named Alternatime, aimed at institutional investors....
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Serre takes top spot at CCF-SEI Investments
FRANCE - Patrick Serre has been appointed chairman of multi-manager CCF-SEI Investments, the joint venture of HSBC CCF AMG and SEI Investments.....
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BGI Europe's biggest as passive trend rolls on
EUROPE – Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has retained the top slot as Europe’s largest pensions asset manager, recording annual growth of $8bn in assets from $107bn to just over $115bn, according to consultant William M.Mercer’s figures for 2000-2001....
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NAPF calls for Myners to be made 'more workable'
UK – The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has issued a response to the recent Myners report on institutional investment, seeking changes to make the report “more workable”....
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Watson Wyatt hires specialist manager researchers
Consultant Watson Wyatt has pulled two investment managers on board as specialist manager researchers to the fund manager research team of its investment consulting practice, in a sign that pension funds are adopting increasingly complex investment structures....
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Deutsche names head of European pension strategies
EUROPE – Des MacIntyre has joined Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) in London as director and head of European pension strategies....
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Scottish Widows in tie up for Scandinavian push
SCANDINAVIA – Edinburgh based Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP), is to begin marketing asset management services to retail and institutional investors in Finland, Norway and Sweden through co-operation with Stockholm based Intervalor, a marketing firm of international fund managers in the Nordic region....
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MLIM nabs Morgan Stanley institutional director
UK – Richard Boon, a former director in institutional investment management with Morgan Stanley, is joining Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) as managing director and head of the manager’s London based US investment team in July....
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Swedish municipality awards SEK320m in mandates
SWEDEN – The council of Danderyd’s municipality within greater Stockholm has split its investment assets into two roughly equal global balanced mandates....
