Asset Managers – Page 403
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Maguire to head SWIP global marketing push
** Maguire to head SWIP global marketing ** Fiach Maguire joins Scottish Widows Investment Partnership as director of global marketing....and all the rest of this weeks major people moves....
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Volkswagen to fund German group pensions
GERMANY - The Wolfsburg based automobile group Volkswagen is creating a pension fund for its 80,000 plus employees, which will see an initial transfer from its current book reserve provisions of more than DM160m (e82m)….
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Goldman bags Hendriks in European marketing revamp
EUROPE - Goldman Sachs Asset Management has appointed Ruud Hendriks – a former senior vice president at Robeco Institutional Asset Management in the Netherlands – to head up institutional marketing in continental Europe – as part of a move which will see the group split its European marketing efforts into ...
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BAM launches five sector fund following research
UK – Baring Asset Management (BAM) has launched a ‘five sector’ fund, which will invest in companies across five global sectors that the company believes offer strong opportunities for growth....
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Citigroup announces major European appointments
UK/NETHERLANDS - Martin Tully is named as head of European operations at Citigroup Asset Management... Sikko van Katwijk is appointed country manager for the Netherlands and Belgium at Citibank’s World Wide Securities Services (WWSS)...
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Northern scoops £1.2bn in charity fund custody
UK – CCLA Investment Management, the country’s biggest manager of charitable fund assets, has appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody to eight of its funds with a total asset value of £1.2bn (e1.9bn)....
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FTSE rolls out Global Sector Index Series
FTSE has gone live with its new Global Sector Index Series - eleven blue-chip, global sector indices, designed for sector-based trading and supporting a variety of OTC and listed products...
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SSB Citi becomes Citigroup Asset Management
US – SSB Citi Asset Management Group has changed its name to Citigroup Asset Management...
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STOXX beefs up regional sales teams
STOXX has made a raft of appointments to its regional marketing and sales teams with Kevin Pilarski appointed regional director for the Americas and Jon Winslade regional director for the Netherlands and the UK.... and all the rest of the week's major people moves......
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Old Mutual to close UAM Dutch office
NETHERLANDS - Old Mutual is to close the United Asset Management (UAM) office in the Netherlands that it inherited following last September’s buy-out of UAM....
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PPM to up funds allocation for providers
SWEDEN – The state controlled premium pension system (PPM) is increasing the number of funds companies owned by the same holding group can offer to investors....
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BT scheme PE arm has first closing on Asia fund
UK/ASIA – The joint private equity venture between London based Hermes Private Equity Management (HPEM) and United Overseas Bank Group (OUB) has had its first closing on the UOB Hermes Asia Technology Fund...
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VKG broadens property horizon in new RFP
BELGIUM - The e500m Brussels based VKG/CPM pension fund for doctors, dentists and pharmacists is seeking a manager for an indirect international real estate mandate, as part of a strategic geographical shift in its property investment set-up...
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Schroders gets Korean green light
SOUTH KOREA – UK fund manager Schroders has become the first foreign asset management company to be given a preliminary fund management licence in the Republic of Korea...
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Antonsson takes top spot at Telia fund
Peter Antonsson has been appointed to head the Farsta-based Telia pensionsstiftelse (pension fund) for the Swedish telecommunications company....and the rest of the weeks prominent people moves.....
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UK fund allocates £112m into multinational equity
UK - The £330m (e527m) Southern Water Pension Schemes has appointed Dresdner to invest a third of its assets in multinational equities...
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Hermes focuses on German corporate specialist
UK – Pension fund manager Hermes, the investment company for both the BT and Post Office schemes, has appointed German corporate finance specialist Stephan Howaldt to head up its new European focus funds company (HEFF)...
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Hermes against US-style compensation in Europe
UK - Hermes presses Nasdaq to force companies to seek shareholder approval for stock option plans.
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EAMA report calls harmonisation 'inappropriate'
EUROPE – Attempts to harmonise regulatory rules for asset managers in Europe are inappropriate as long as pronounced institutional differences remain, says a report commissioned by the European Asset Management Association (EAMA)....
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Credit Lyonnais takes over alternative manager
FRANCE – Credit Lyonnais Asset Management (CLAM) is buying a majority interest in SYSTEIA Capital Management...
