Asset Managers – Page 404
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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...
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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...
