Asset Managers – Page 399
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JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management unveiled in UK
UK/EUROPE - Following the merger between Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan at the beginning of the year, their asset management subsidiaries have formally announced the launch on May 14 into the UK market of their combined operation JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management....
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German DC 'AS-fonds' return 2% for 2000
GERMANY – AS-fonds, Germany’s third pillar DC savings plans returned an average of two-per cent last year in spite of the market turbulence, according to the Frankfurt based BVI funds regulator....
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Read to Fidelity institutional communications role
UK – Fidelity Investments has appointed Anne Read as associate director with specific responsibility for institutional business within the group's Corporate Communications Department....
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BankInvest's Broby takes AIMR international role
DENMARK – Daniel Broby, chief investment officer at Danish financial services group BankInvest, has been elected as the international presidents council representative of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)....
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Garrood heads investment operations at Hendersons
Shirley Garrood has been appointed director of investment operations at Henderson Global Investors. And all this week's major people moves in Europe...
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West AM subsidiary scoops Texas teachers mandate
US/GERMANY – The pension fund for the Teachers Retirement System of Texas, has appointed Criterion Investment Management, the Houston based fixed income arm of Düsseldorf based WestAM, to a US$100m high-yield bond portfolio.
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Aberdeen buys property manager RREEF
UK/NETHERLANDS – Aberdeen Asset Management has bought property asset manager RREEF UK from RoProperty Holding, part of the Robeco group, increasing its property assets under management to £5.9bn....
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Scherkampf leaves Siemens Financial Services post
GERMANY - Peter Scherkampf, the respected managing director of Munich based Siemens Financial Services Investment Management (SKAG) leaves his current position today (April 26)….
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Irish Life picks AXA Rosenberg for £20m UK brief
IRELAND - Irish Life International Multi-Managers, an investment division of Irish Life International has appointed AXA Rosenberg Investment Management to a £20m UK equity mandate....
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Schroders to expand Dutch and Belgian presence
NETHERLANDS - Pieter van Daalen, formerly of Rotterdam based investment group Robeco, is to join Schroder Investment Management as managing director of the group’s Amsterdam office in July, as part of an expansion programme in the Dutch and Belgian institutional and retail markets....
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Indocam becomes Crédit Agricole Asset Management
FRANCE – Indocam, the investment management arm of France’s largest retail bank Crédit Agricole, has changed its name to Crédit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM), following an EGM of the group in Paris....
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Giant Swiss fund goes passive for SFr1.5bn
SWITZERLAND - The SFr20bn (e13.1bn) Geneva-based Swiss Social Security fund AHV-Fonds has appointed two new asset managers for passive global equity mandates totalling SFr. 1.5bn, in the first tactical switch following changes in Swiss law earlier this year…
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Austria's APK indexes $35m with Vanguard
AUSTRIA – The ATS22bn (e1.6bn) Vienna-based pension fund APK has reviewed its US equity strategy and dropped an undisclosed active manager in favour of a passive brief with US investment manager Vanguard….
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Van den Brink switches metalworkers funds
NETHERLANDS - Roland van den Brink, manager of acquisition and strategy with Rijswijk based Mn Services, the recently split fund management and administration arm of the NLG40bn (e18bn) Dutch metal and technical industries pension fund, BPMT, is to leave the group and take up the role of managing director at ...
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Northern Trust ousts Mellon for £1.5bn custody
UK – Northern Trust has been selected to provide global custody for the £1.5bn (e2.4bn) pension fund of chemicals and pharmaceutical group Akzo Nobel....
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Indocam buys alternative investment outfit
FRANCE/US – Indocam, the asset management arm of France’s Crédit Agricole group, has entered into an agreement to buy Alternative Investment Partners (AIP), the Franco-American alternative investment management specialist, for an undisclosed sum....
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Palladyne loses CEO and changes business tack
NETHERLANDS – Erik van Dijk, the former principle and CEO of Palladyne Asset Management in Amsterdam has left the company and is believed to be pursuing research interests in the US....
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BAM brings in new Chief Operating Officer
UK – John Misselbrook has joined Baring Asset Management as chief operating officer....
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European property figures hold up strongly
SWEDEN/IRELAND – Swedish property returns rose strongly in 2000, while Irish property assets retained their strong performance levels, according to figures published by the London based property index provider, Investment Property Databank….
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Schroders bags £70m property brief
UK – Suffolk County Council (SCC) has awarded a £70m (e112m) domestic indirect property mandate to investment manager Schroders...
