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J Walter Thompson Trustees drops Schroders
UK – J Walter Thompson Trustees has split its £50m pension fund into three separate specialist portfolios - following the closure of the fund, dropping Schroder Investment Management in the process...
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FTSE becomes international benchmark for CalPers
FTSE has become the sole index provider for $160bn US superfund CalPers’ $36bn in international equities....
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Aon boosts London consulting practice
Aon Consulting in London has announced a major expansion of its UK investment consulting practice with a raft of appointments.....plus the weeks major pensions and investment industry moves...
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SFIM grabs e15m Swedish brief
SWEDEN - Stockholm based shipping company Soya appoints Singer & Friedlander Investment Management for a e15m pan-European ex Sweden large cap portfolio...
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CCF to spearhead HSBC charge into Europe
FRANCE - Paris based CCF Capital Management (CCF CM) has changed its name to HSBC Asset Management Europe SA, in a move which will see it front a large part of HSBC’s investment management activities in continental Europe...
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Parliament opens out directive debate to industry
EUROPE - The European Parliament is to hold an open public hearing on the forthcoming directive on supplementary pensions -allowing interested parties in the European pensions and investment industry to add their views to the already heated debate...
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Sampo-Leonia shifts focus to investment banking
FINLAND – Financial services group Sampo-Leonia is closing its non-life insurance business in a corporate strategy shift towards domestic investment banking and life insurance...
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AP2 appoints raft of managers to SEK130bn fund
SWEDEN - The SEK130bn (e14.6bn) Gothenburg based AP fonden 2 has appointed six new asset managers and a global custodian...
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NAPF refines decision-making structure
UK - Members of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) have endorsed restructuring proposals within the organisation at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...
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RBS links up to State Street network
UK/US – RBS Financial Markets, part of The Royal Bank of Scotland group, has announced its participation in State Street’s e-finance network, Global Link...
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Corporate giants question research independence
EUROPE – Europe's largest corporations are growing increasingly disenchanted with the independence of broker analysts involved in corporate transactions...
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Nordea brands Scandinavian managers
SCANDINAVIA - A slew of Scandinavia's best known investment managers will now trade under the Nordea Investment Manager banner, including Denmark's Unibank and Sweden's Trevise...
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SFIM & Bank Corluy aim for small cap gap
BELGIUM - Singer and Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) and its Belgian partner, Bank Corluy Effectenbankiers, are launching their first institutional pooled pan-European small cap vehicle...
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Singer & Friedlander scoops European equity briefs
UK – Singer & Friedlander Investment Management (SFIM) has picked up continental European large cap equity mandates worth around £45m (e71m)...
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Van Tuyll elected to chair AIMA
AIMA – the London based Alternative Investment Management Association has elected Hans-Willem van Tuyll as its new chairman...
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Alleato launched to bring technology into benefits
SWEDEN - Ericsson and Skandia are launching a new company specialising in security, safety and health, called Alleato.
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Swedish church awards SEK65m global mandate
SWEDEN – The SEK130m (e14.6m) diocese of Skara, part of the Lutheran church of Sweden, has awarded a SEK65m global balanced brief...
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Finnish FSA reappoints Jännäri for six years
Kaarlo Jännäri has been reappointed for a further six years as head of the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (RATA).....Read on for this weeks major people moves in the European pensions and investment industry...
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Merger creates world's largest settlement system
BELGIUM/FRANCE - Sicovam, the central securities depository of France and Brussels based Euroclear Bank have finally merged - creating the world’s largest clearance and settlement system for domestically and internationally traded securities...
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Swiss Life scoops balanced briefs
UK – Swiss Life Asset Management UK has been appointed to three balanced mixed fund mandates worth £12.4m (e19.4m) in total.
